Nonetheless, they belonged to a completely different world from that of the descendants of earlier Chinese Americans, most of whom spoke Cantonese and lived together in ethnic enclaves, some of them never speaking English and rarely leaving Chinatown all their lives.
然而，他們與舊的華裔美人﹘﹘老華工及其子孫，多聚居在中國城，自成生活天地，講台山話或廣東話，有的人甚至一輩子不會講英語也極少出「城」﹘﹘屬於完全不同的世界。