Ancient Italian Town Turns Against Chinese Migrants

An estimated 40,000 Chinese, both legal residents and illegals, are living in the Italian town of Prato, not far from Florence. They constitute a quarter of the town's population and are one of the biggest concentrations of Chinese in Europe. Most come from one town in China, Wenzhou near Shanghai. Nearly all are involved in manufacturing textiles and cheap clothes on a huge scale - producing up to one million garments a day. In recent months, tensions in Prato between Italian residents and the Chinese have spiked with accusations that the migrants aren't playing by the rules. Henry Ridgwell visited this town in the heart of Tuscany confronting the reality of a globalized world.

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[SixthtySixthSix]

The Italian reputation for fine goods and materials is certainly one that has been established worldwide. Their cuisine, art, music, cars- all are renowned worldwide. In contrast, chinese goods have never carried such public quality moniker as Italy's, rather one of industrious labor... if only we could mass-manufacture masterpieces.

[ukusapillage]

chinese clothes crap italian clothes high quality the chinese are just using the place to do what they do best cheat people with crap goods, they are not about quality of style but crap materials pollution and exploitation fuck the chinese they are fucking everything evrywhere in coupler years we will loose our identity all around europe they copy everything pretending they are european making cultural est marks and products that europe took centurys to refine they come and destroy them all

[mohdzahid786]

fuck these lazy ass racist europeans they against. Without Muslim and chinese immigrants they will have no labor.

[Aeshmauniversus]

@MrMantura unlike your silly country the Great Italy has been around for 5000 years.

it did not collapse , it will never collapse!

[tury10chivas]

@MrMantura idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[KumarZimmerman08]

The strategy of exporting human beings and having them breed in abundance is the simplest way to take possession of a territory,” - Oriana Fallaci.“

The Italians want to keep their land ITALIAN. Nobody say's The Chinese are racist for keeping China 98% Chinese now do they?

Stop supporting GENOCIDE!

[bayern4316]

Italy will collapse like the rest of Europe.  But Italians will slide down the pole quite fast because they're so greasy!

[bayern4316]

@ChainEffect1 Maybe because white people have spent the last 500 years committing genocide in North and South America and Australia. Whites tried to do it in Africa, India and China too but were expulsed. Now the tables have turned and you don't like it. Well f*ck you! You are getting back what you dished out!

[MrMantura]

Look at the Italian greasy-haired spaghetti-eating faggots now. Your country is nearly bankrupt. You Italians are too lazy too work and pay taxes. You depend on immigrants to support your country because you are too busy trying to look pretty.

I hope Italy collapses soon...

[MondoBeno]

If the Mayor doesn't like what the Chinese are doing, why doesn't he just do it himself?

[ukusapillage]

its just another way for chinese to do immitations using italy as attractive, i think italy sjhould make clear for buyers the clothes were made by chinese and cloth came from china witch usually are synthetic crap