The Importance Of Field Trip To Chinatown

Field Trip Tour: Chinatown

There are many Chinatown in this world, and the Chinatown of San Francisco has much historical significance. Today I want to write about the Chinatown of San Francisco base on my personal experience because there are many historic things I can illustrate, and I attended a free tour from San Francisco city guide website, also they assigned tour guide, Marann. There was a Mid-Autumn parade in Chinatown on that day, accompanying the dragon and lion dancing, Marann started to give us illustration about Chinatown. Before I started traveling this field trip, I did some research carefully in San Francisco city guide, so I eager to travel as soon as possible. Because It is hard to get a parking lot in Chinatown, and the

“The early Chinese immigrants came to America in search of gold, and the rest of them who came to help United States to build railroad; afterward some of the Chinese immigrants they sent large amount money back to their family, some of Chinese immigrants who stayed in United States”( Manuel). That’s how Chinatown was built. In our lecture, I studied that many of Chinese immigrants who were coming in the 1840s to 1860s were to look for gold, just like people were coming to California from all over the world to look for gold, At that time, China was controlled by Qing dynasty, and people who were living Guangdong province were suffering poor disease, and war, so they did seek a place to make large amount money. Later on, they had a new mission, the Chinese immigrants built railroad for American. The Chinese immigrants found that the American people did not like them at all, even though they were working diligently. In our lecture, we see many photos of old Chinese immigrants, the photos of building the railroad, the photos of digging gold, and the photos that when they were treated unfairly. Chinese American should not forget those tough, being discrimination, and poor days; Chinese American should thank their predecessors. But today, everything is changed; Chinese

For example, they speak English, Cantonese, and many of other languages which I did not understand, and these things I did not get from our class. Before I did this field trip, I thought that they only speak Cantonese and English. “Most residents are Chinese American, but there are other Asians, especially Vietnamese Americans, and a scattering of whites, Indians, and other ethnic groups. San Francisco’s Chinatown is the largest Chinatown in the United States, the largest cohesive community of Chinese Americans outside of China. Then I saw that there were many Chinese retail stores, and the retailers they do not speak English at all. These retail stores may import many of goods from China, like they import Chinese herbs, Chinese snacks; whereas, for the American brand companies, like Wells Fargo, Citi Bank, Chase, Bank of America, T-Mobil, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T; these American companies they put English and Chinese together on the boards and doors, and the staff can speak Cantonese, Mandarin, and English, but speaking English is not required. I think that the targets are to give people who live in Chinatown better service. Surprisingly, I did see a store which was selling