NY's Largest Chinatown Sunset Park
A+ article about Fujianese in Brooklyn.
I love this quote:
Principal Ruth Stanislaus was amazed when one kindergartner’s mother said, in faltering English: “My son must go Harvard.”
I love this quote:
Principal Ruth Stanislaus was amazed when one kindergartner’s mother said, in faltering English: “My son must go Harvard.”
Hardworking Fujianese immigrants use the borough as a launching pad to the middle class.
City Journal
Key Points:
- As of 2010, Asian Americans’ median household income was $66,000, the highest of any demographic group in the nation, according to the Pew Research Center.
- Sunset Park's Chinatown is now the largest NY Chinatown. Larger than Flushing or Manhattan. I have family that lives in Flushing.
- Smuggling can costs $50,000 or more
- Reverse Migration, where parents send their kids back to China to be taken care of. I have seen this.
- Sunset Park and Borough Park zip codes had among the largest number of acceptances at the city’s specialized, competitive high schools.
- No matter how poor they are, parents find a way to get their fourth- or fifth-graders into test-prep classes.
Labels: chinatowns, college admissions, immigrating
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