Chinatown: Immigrants in America [Trailer]

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Each year some 20,000 Chinese immigrants arrive in New York City. Though few speak English, all know one word -"Chinatown."

Tourism is the major industry of Chinatown, but beneath a veneer of firework-filled celebrations are a people desperately struggling against language and cultural barriers. Poverty dominates. Chinatown's dilapidated housing is the oldest in the city, yet rents are among the highest. Tuberculosis and diabetes rates are three times the national average.

"This is the story of our neighbors," says co-Producer/Director Jon Alpert, and the resulting "reportage from within" reveals kitchen workers earning less than $100 for sixty-hour weeks and garment workers laboring for microscopic wages in hazardous conditions.

Focusing on individual stories to expose broader issues, "Chinatown: Immigrants in America" is an unflinching document of Asian immigrants under pressure to assimilate into mainstream culture and struggling to survive in America.

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Education

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• immigrants
• assimilation
• asian americans
• asian-americans
• chinatown
• new york city
• lower manhattan
• poverty
• immigration
• disease
• U.S.A.
• housing
• china
• chinese-americans
• chinese americans
• chinese american
• chinese-american
• nyc
• tourism
• tourists

[wing0410]

dirtiest part of city is always china town. like rats hole.

[andthisgirlislara]

Been there ...sooooo filthy......

[TheDepreso]

I was there-very dirty ans small place,filled with street vendors