It is also an important jewelry district now. Although there is a lot going on in Chinatown, it has been silent from the rest of the city. Unwanted in America for many years, Chinese lay low, encouraged by their leaders to distrust outsiders and the authorities that mistreated them. Chinatown is now divided into different groups. The new immigrants and different generations of immigrants.
Chinese community is a very hard working community.
It took a lot of hardship for the Chinese to get where they are and they are willing to take much more. Chinese earn very little and Chinatown exploits a lot of it workers. He says his house is poor, has no TV, no sofa. He is 25, but looks 19. He doesn't go to movies, doesn't drink or gamble.