Jul 10
Asian Enclaves in Sydney
Aika and I were in Chatswood, a suburb of northern Sydney today. Aika noticed that there were a lot of Korean being spoken.
“Is this Korea town?” she asked.
“Well… yeah I guess.”
“But how about Strathfield?”
“Well, yeah… Strathfield is the main Korea town, but I guess Chatswood is another Korea town.”
“And Ashfield?”
“Well… there are some Korean shops there but I think Ashfield is more of a Chinatown.”
“I thought Chinatown was in the city.”
“Well, yes… the place called “Chinatown” is in the city, but Ashfield is a place with a lot of Chinese shops… I guess if you wanted to be specific, Ashfield is Shanghai-town, and Chinatown is Chinatown.”
I think it’s great that we have these little language isolates in Sydney, and that we don’t just have one Koreatown but several. Unfortunately some idiots think that this is a bad thing, and have formed an anti immigration party, but I am sure that they will go the same way as all of our other anti immigration parties, and fade away when everyone realises how stupid they are.
July 10th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Max, wish you would do an ‘on the road’ video with this, with you doing
interviews on the streets using your korean !!!
July 10th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
drummoyne is Max & Aika Town !
July 11th, 2009 at 12:19 am
I was talking the other day with a person that actually stated that there would be no more “real” Americans if the immigrant communities continued to grow… I was blown away seeing how this person forgot that I am part of that community. I find that people here tend to forget that because I mastered English as a child and have no discernible accent.