In New York's Chinatown, for example, 80 percent of the population in 1980 were foreign-born Chinese, and 22 percent had lived there for less than five years. More than half speak English poorly or not at all.
以在紐約市中心的老中國城為例，一九八○年「城」裡人口中百分之八十是新移民，百分之廿二到美國還不滿五年，而且超過一半的人不諳英文。