An Extensive Tour Of Manhattan New York City Chinatown On Bicycle Part 1

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In modern usage, a Chinatown is an ethnic enclave of overseas Chinese people by accepted definition. Chinatowns are present throughout the world, including those in East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Americas, Australasia, and Europe.

In the past, crowded Chinatowns in urban areas were places of cultural insularity. Nowadays, many old and new Chinatowns are considered significant centers of commerce and tourism. Some of them also serve, to varying degrees, as centers of multiculturalism.
While some Chinatowns are focused on commercial tourism, others are actual living and working communities; many are in fact a synergetic synthesis of both. Chinatowns also range from slum ghettos to modern sites of up-to-date development. In some, recent investments have revitalized rundown and blighted areas and turned them into centers of buzzing economic and social activity. In certain cases, this has led to gentrification and a reduction in the specifically Chinese character of the neighborhoods.

Some Chinatowns have a long history, such as the Chinatown in Nagasaki, Japan, or Yaowarat Road in Bangkok, Thailand, both of which were founded by Chinese traders more than 200 years ago. Manila being the oldest was established even earlier. Chinatown, San Francisco was not only the first, but also is one of the largest Chinatowns to be established in North America. Other cities in North America where Chinatowns were founded in the mid-nineteenth century include almost every major settlement along the West Coast from San Diego to Victoria, BC. By the second half of the nineteenth century, bustling Chinatowns were also established in Vancouver, BC, New York City, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Detroit. The discovery of gold in Australia caused the establishment of relatively small Chinatowns in cities there, and similar migrations of Chinese resulted in tiny settlements termed "Chinatowns" being established in New Zealand and even South Africa. European Chinatowns, such as those in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, are for the most part smaller and of more recent history than their North American counterparts. Newer Chinatowns , such as Chinatown, Las Vegas in 1995, Dubai and Santo Domingo have also received official recognition recently.

In the past, Chinatown had also been used to refer to the Chinese sections of non-Chinese-administered cities within Greater China. For example, the walled city of Shanghai was referred to as a "Chinatown" because it was surrounded by foreign concessions administered by European powers.

Chinatown's are often noted for their decorative arches (paifang), the largest of which outside of China is located in Chinatown, Liverpool, England.

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[MOCHAMILAN]

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[WorldTravelerMan]

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[jlugomortgage]

Dude learn how to video tape first!!!!

[N2OBullet]

It's as if he's biking through an 8.9 earthquake with all that shaking...

[alwaysanecesity]

now this is a tour

[Sarahsblues]

I become very dizzy.

[JadaBlaze02]

I saw a HUnt Valley Motor Coach bus, I use that tour company a lot

[stopglobalswarming]

ROLL UP!

[stopglobalswarming]

Chinese hate whites, so they enjoy promoting miscegenation and Die-versity.

[asianpride1227]

damn that is my old school (is131)