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DC Chinablock is a total hellhole filled with the bridge crowd, tourists, and crap you'd find in a lesser version of midtown. Anyone looking for anything other than tourist traps and chain restaurants there is an idiot.
The businesses on 14th & U are flourishing because they are making people forget the recent history of 14th & U.
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Originally Posted by PK12
If you purely consider the cultural semantics, the impact of gentrification in 14th and U cannot be measured on an equal level with the changes going on in Chinatown.
A Chinatown is a distinct hallmark of most major metropolitan cities in the US and the rest of the world that showcases the Chinese culture. The changes in the U street corridor are still ‘American’ for all practical purposes.
DC Chinablock is a total hellhole filled with the bridge crowd, tourists, and crap you'd find in a lesser version of midtown. Anyone looking for anything other than tourist traps and chain restaurants there is an idiot.
I only go there for the people-watching and Gallery Place to hit up the Regal Cinema whenever I'm hanging out with my stepbrother.
The REAL scandal is that Chinatowns in New York City, San Francisco and other super-gentrified cities are losing many ethnic Chinese residents. Chinese immigrants and first generation families can't afford the sky-high rents on their apartments and businesses. Whole city blocks are losing their identity to bland, corporate tastes favored by transplanted yuppies. Sad, really.
BTW...the Chinese characters added to corporate chain restaurant and retail shops in DC's Chinatown/Gallery Place district seems like an insult. Chinese characters on the Verizon Center. Those businesses and buildings are not owned by Chinese families or companies. Cultural appropriation by white corporate America at its most shameless.
White people take over everything because they can.
The REAL scandal is that Chinatowns in New York City, San Francisco and other super-gentrified cities are losing many ethnic Chinese residents. Chinese immigrants and first generation families can't afford the sky-high rents on their apartments and businesses. Whole city blocks are losing their identity to bland, corporate tastes favored by transplanted yuppies. Sad, really.
BTW...the Chinese characters added to corporate chain restaurant and retail shops in DC's Chinatown/Gallery Place district seems like an insult. Chinese characters on the Verizon Center. Those businesses and buildings are not owned by Chinese families or companies. Cultural appropriation by white corporate America at its most shameless.
White people take over everything because they can.
This is happening now in NYC. The residents in Chinatown NYC are being priced out their neighborhoods. They are building expensive luxury buildings in the area. Chinatown NYC will not exist 10 years from now.
Wow DC is really becoming Yuppieville. I knew it was going to happen but not this fast. I remember Chinatown DC in the 80's and 90's. It was really unique back then.
The REAL scandal is that Chinatowns in New York City, San Francisco and other super-gentrified cities are losing many ethnic Chinese residents. Chinese immigrants and first generation families can't afford the sky-high rents on their apartments and businesses. Whole city blocks are losing their identity to bland, corporate tastes favored by transplanted yuppies. Sad, really.
BTW...the Chinese characters added to corporate chain restaurant and retail shops in DC's Chinatown/Gallery Place district seems like an insult. Chinese characters on the Verizon Center. Those businesses and buildings are not owned by Chinese families or companies. Cultural appropriation by white corporate America at its most shameless.
White people take over everything because they can.
White people own everything... except, you know.. the executive branch of the most powerful country in the world. Damn whitey!
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