MTL - Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981-Chapter 1016 1041st Chinese leader
Chapter 1016 Chapter 1041 Chinese Leader
After coming out of the White House, Yang Chen received an unexpected letter.
A figure known as the leader of Chinese Americans,
Yang Chen only heard the name of the big guy in the letter, but he had never seen him in person.
Among the Chinese immigrants in the United States, immigrants from the inland account for the majority, with a proportion as high as 60%, which means that five of the Chinese immigrants in the United States come from the inland.
The cities with the most Chinese in the United States are the three metropolitan areas of Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. The three major cities are home to more than 40% of the Chinese population.
New York, a world-class metropolis, is the city with the most Chinese in the United States and the place with the largest number of Chinese outside Asia.
There is more than one Chinatown in New York City. The bustling Manhattan Chinatown, Brooklyn Chinatown and Flushing Chinatown all make people feel like they are in an authentic Chinese world.
In the United States, a country with a lot of guns, social security has always been a very serious topic. Coupled with various discrimination issues in the United States, if the Chinese want to survive, they can only choose to get together.
Therefore, in the Chinese circle, there are large and small Chinese guilds and associations, and the most famous one is the Hongmen.
However, a force like the Hong Sect is destined to be unable to get along with Yang Chen, or to put it more directly, Yang Chen is unwilling to deal with a force with a strong black background like the Hong Sect.
Although Hongmen once produced two great men of the era, it is impossible to deny that the background of Hongmen is too strong, and dealing with them will do more harm than good.
Compared with the Hongmen, which Chinese leader who is dedicated to guiding the Chinese to take root and participate in politics on the spot is more worthy of Yang Chen's attention.
In European and American countries, if an ethnic group wants to obtain the corresponding civil rights, it must participate in politics.
Obviously, the Chinese leader's thoughts are very clear, and the most important point is that he did not talk, but put in practical actions.
This kind of hard work is what Yang Chen admires the most.
Next day
New York Manhattan Chinatown
This Chinatown, located in Manhattan, New York, USA, has a history of more than 100 years. Since its establishment, New York Chinatown has been the most important business center for Chinese in New York.
One of the earliest Chinese shops dates back to the mid-19th century.
In fact, this is also one of the earliest Chinese commercial streets established by overseas Chinese outside of Asia. It has a "demonstration" role. New York's Chinatown has even been included in the National Register of Historic Places by the US government.
Walking along the bustling street, you can vaguely hear different dialects from outside the window. The signs of shops on both sides of the street are all familiar Chinese.
It is said that there are one or two hundred Chinese restaurants here, where you can taste authentic Chinese food to meet the tastes of Chinese people everywhere.
Yang Chen came to the home of Chinese leader Chen Benchang with an invitation card in hand. Chen Benchang was born in 1913 and is now over seventy years old. He is from Luoding in Guangdong.
Since 1981, in order to unite Asian-American forces and actively participate in politics, he and Chen Xiangmei initiated the organization and established the "American Republican Asian Party Headquarters".
In response to the current situation that Chinese people are affected by the traditional concept of "falling leaves return to their roots", their awareness of political participation is weak, they have no rights and status, and it is difficult to protect their rights.
The car stopped in a small building, and an old man with a cane in his hand came up with a few middle-aged people.
Chen Benchang said enthusiastically: "Mr. Yang, welcome."
Yang Chen: "Mr. Chen, I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Chen Benchang: "If Mr. Yang can come, it will give me face to the old guy."
"Let's not talk about that, let's go to the house and talk about it."
How influential Yang Chen is, Chen Benchang still knows, if he is surrounded by the door of the house for a while, it will be embarrassing.
Walking into Chen's house, looking at the decoration of Chen's house, Yang Chen nodded secretly, although Chen Benchang is a Chinese American leader and is very rich, but the house is not as luxurious as imagined, and the entire layout is decorated according to the Chinese style.
In places like Chinatown, although the first generation of Chinese lived thousands of miles away from the motherland, they still retained many customs and cultures brought by their hometowns, among which the layout of houses is an obvious place.
At the beginning of his trip to the United States, Chen Benchang first studied at the Columbia University Research Institute, and at the same time carried out business activities.
A few years later, he achieved outstanding academic and career achievements. He successively obtained honorary doctorate degrees from St. Oleph’s Institute in the United Kingdom and Dewey International University in the United States.
Afterwards, Chen Benchang joined the American Republican Party and served as the co-chairman of the Ethnic Headquarters. With Chen Xiangmei and other Chinese-Americans, he established the American Republican Asian American Headquarters, actively participating in various activities in the mainstream American society, in order to win the society of Chinese in the United States. The status running appealed, and organized the Chinese people in the United States to actively participate in various elections.
This time, Chen Benchang invited Yang Chen to come to his house in order to seek Yang Chen's support. The support here is not about money or donations.
As a real estate boss, Chen Benchang is not short of money at all, what he needs is Chen Yi's influence.
Because the Chinese have always paid no attention to participating in local political activities, ignored elections, did not support candidates, and did not go out to vote, they lost a lot of voice in social life.
Many elected officials are indifferent to the demands of the Chinese, and rarely hear voices from the Chinese community in the parliament. Many bills and resolutions introduced are biased towards the interests of the Chinese.
Many people believe that the long-held traditional concepts such as "falling leaves return to their roots" are tantamount to isolating themselves from American society, leaving everything at the mercy of others and suffering all kinds of injustices.
The sky fell down, and there was a tall man on it.
This is a common conjecture among Chinese people. You only need to take care of one-third of your own land and live a good life on one-third of your own land.
It is precisely because of this non-competitive character that the Chinese are at a disadvantage at some point.
In European and American countries, Europeans and Americans actively participate in politics for their own rights, while Chinese are reluctant to fight for their own legitimate rights and interests.
The Chinese have a low social status and largely have nothing to do with other people. Everything is caused by themselves.
Looking at the unfair treatment of Chinese and Africans in later generations, the solutions sought by both sides are completely two extremes.
In the white supremacy of the United States, he needs a force to build momentum for him after all, and Chinese Americans who are also Chinese are undoubtedly the most suitable.
When Africans are treated unfairly in later generations, Africans all over the United States will be mobilized, but the Chinese lack this kind of self-consciousness.
How to mobilize the enthusiasm of Chinese people to participate in politics. This is very important, and it is related to the status and influence of Chinese in the United States in the future.
(end of this chapter)
