Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Chinatown in Oakland



I knew before going to Chinatown that there were a lot of Chinese people and Chinatown is in many blocks.
Chinatown is a nice place; there are a lot of bakeries, supermarkets, clothing stores, and much more. When we interview people in Chinatown many were busy doing there job. There where times when the store owners weren’t busy and yet they said they were busy. I understand that the majority of people speak Chinese so it was hard to do the interview knowing that some didn’t know English.
The topic for our group was economics some the majority of people said that on average there salary was enough to pay the bills. From an interview they said that Chinatown is about low class and medium class. Many of them enjoyed there job some said that sometimes the business have up and downs on the amount of costumers that come to there store. In Chinatown, I barely saw police around the area here and there you would see a police.
I noticed that in Chinatown has garbage in the streets more than in Fruitvale. I wonder why it that in Chinatown there is more garbage than in Fruitvale is. Is it because there are not a lot of trash can’s around or what it is?
Some of the similarities that Fruitvale and Chinatown have are that there are supermarkets, and different types of restaurants. In Chinatown, there food is much different than what is in Fruitvale. When we went I didn’t know the type of food they made or what place to eat since I was not familiar.

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