many taiwanese immigrants have not settled in the old chinatowns because they do not speak cantonese. instead, they have generally immigrated directly to american suburbia and in effect, they started new taiwanese communities. for example, beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s at the height of taiwanese immigration, the taiwanese emigrants were instrumental in the development of monterey park, california in los angeles - thus causing it to earn the moniker of "little taipei" and derisively as "mandarin park" - and vicinity and in flushing, new york, which generally reflected new investments and capital flowing from taiwan into newer taiwanese enclaves instead of the well-established and mostly dilapidated chinatowns.