A Chinatown is a neighborhood with a large population of Chinese people. These communities have their own culture, which includes food, language, style and music. They also have their own benevolent associations.
The Chinese community is a hardworking group that has been successful in business and assimilation. They were instrumental in bringing capital to Latin America. Despite racial discrimination and anti-Chinese laws, they eventually became a part of American society.
Family
The family is a very important institution to the Chinese. The Chinese believe that the actions of one individual impact all the members of a family. Consequently, the reputation and prestige of the family should supersede that of the individual.
Many Chinese parents prioritize their children’s education because they believe that this is the key to upward mobility and success in life. As a result, they may restrict their spending to provide for their children’s future.
In addition, Confucianism emphasizes that the family is a hierarchical and interdependent structure where parental authority and morals are paramount. Because of this, a child’s relationship with his/her parents is based on the principle of filial piety, which states that children must respect, obey, and take care of their parents, even if they are old and no longer healthy. This is especially true if the child can still benefit from his/her parents’ wisdom and experiences. This is a very important cultural value that is practiced by most Chinese families.
Religion
The rise of Daoism from second century popular movements brought with it a personified divinity that was concerned to aid humankind, new rituals, and a sense of collective salvation. This eschatological orientation was not unlike that found in earlier religious traditions and was reinforced by a focus on buried deer, divination through reading cracks in the shoulder bones of sheep or deer, and ritual offerings to ancestors and deities that resembled earth gods, water-bug gods, sacred snakes, and thorn spirits.
The study of Chinese religion presents problems and opportunities for a general theory of religion. Confucianism, for example, is hardly ever considered a religion in Western surveys, but its central idea of an ultimate direction of moral life provides a foundation of a spiritual discipline. This is true also of feng shui (“wind and water”), a form of geomancy that developed during the Han.
Education
Through diverse educational programs, cross-cultural dialogues and special events MCCC empowers Chinese immigrants and the wider Boston community to appreciate their heritage and develop bicultural fluency.
Historically, government policy has emphasized scholastic achievement, aiming to narrow gaps between urban and rural populations and among workers, intellectuals and farmers. The Great Leap Forward sought to end academic elitism and the tendency of scholars and intellectuals to disdain manual labor, while the Cultural Revolution promoted universal fostering of progressive ideals.
In the United Kingdom, a growing number of Chinese schools offer complementary (or ethnic) language classes for students with Chinese backgrounds. These schools are often staffed by teachers from mainland China. This study explores teachers’ linguistic practices in these community-based heritage-language classes, and finds that the dominant variety of students’ L1 is naturally harnessed by their teachers to facilitate the learning of their ancestors’ tongue. These L1 facilitative functions are consistent with previous research in other linguistic contexts.
Politics
The political attitudes of Chinese people vary depending on their age and region. Young people and urban dwellers tend to embrace progressive ideals, while older generations and rural Chinese value traditional culture. They are also sensitive to the concept of “face”, which represents a person’s reputation, influence, dignity and honour. Thus, Chinese often avoid confrontation and shy away from challenging ideas in order to protect their face.
In the United States, many non-Chinese residents resented Chinatown and spread stories of its use as places for large numbers of Chinese men to visit prostitutes and smoke opium. This fueled the argument for restricting immigration from East Asia.
However, as a consequence of a growing economy, Chinese citizens feel a general sense of gain, security and happiness. This naturally translates into support for the government. This is why Beijing has been more aggressive in its efforts to assert control over Hong Kong, Taiwan and Xinjiang, where it is conducting a campaign of repression against Muslim Uyghurs.