Chinese Immigrants to Italy Build No Ordinary Chinatown

“Like some city neighborhoods, suburbs and small towns across the U.S. where Mexicans and other immigrants gather in search of jobs, Prato is a place where two culturally different communities can live side-by-side and never really know each other.”

Um, isn’t this an accurate description of Canal Street in Lower Manhattan or Columbus Avenue in San Francisco too?

“White people are the foreigners here”,,,

What’s wrong with this picture? This is Italy. What business do Chinese have being in Italy?

“This is like China. White people are the foreigners here.”

This is China’s goal, of course. Chinese immigrants in Italy, the United States and everywhere else are in fact colonists. Exactly nothing about this story, including the considerable “remittances” to China, suggests that these immigrants have the slightest interest in “integration,” “multiculturalism,” or any other childish fetish of Western liberals. You have to wonder if this reporter realizes how apt her phrase “Chinese ambitions” is.

“In December 2007, a national TV channel broadcast a documentary, “Schiavi del Lusso” or “Slaves of Luxury,” that linked several luxury firms in Italy to low-paid and often illegal Chinese labor, often hired by subcontractors. Prada and Ferragamo, cited in the report, were quoted in the documentary as stopping such subcontract work when alerted to the issue.”

I read about this. Those skilled Italians with centuries of craftsmanship behind them were put out of work by the Chinese slaves of the Chinese subcontractors. Prada was quite defensive about it. “With so many subcontractors we can’t keep track”

Somehow I doubt that Prada, Ferragamo and other expensive companies have stopped subcontracting their work to the Chinese.

Every time you read one of those Asian immigrant success stories remember what lies behind their success. Total tax evasion, complete defiance of zoning and workplace regulations, human trafficing, slave labor and of course illegal immigration.

I am sure that not only are the slaves illegal but so are the contractors and business owners.

There is nothing to prevent an Asian from entering any country on a tourist visa and staying for the next 50 years.

China is ten thousand miles away from Italy. The Chinese settlement in Italy could not have be achieved without the cooperation of the Italian government. Neither was it done in secret. The Italian people watched, and did nothing.

A recent issue of ‘National Geographic’ - a year or so ago - on the issue of SLAVERY featured the Chinese - whole families, toddlers included, working in the labor-intensive luxury goods sector of the Italian underground economy.

My guess is that Prada and Prada’s competitors know full well what the reality is and simply turn a Nelsonian blind eye. As for the authorities, their situation is unenviable;if they make a fuss about the ongoing violation of scores of health, safety, fire and ventilation regulations they are simply making a rod for their own backs and incur the penalties usually inflicted on the whistleblower.

It is rare that I disagree with comments presented here. This time, however, I believe I should. Here in the USA, Chinese and Japanese populations have the lowest crime rate of all demographic groups. In fact, the Japanese-American crime rate is virtually non-existant. Also, unlike some groups which are perennially parasitic, they accept far less in government handout programs than the general population.
Chinese and Japanese populations invariably add to the economy. They also create positive and vital neighborhoods that are safe to visit. If you doubt it, go to Chinatown or Japantown in San Francisco. You will be feel welcome and secure. Then, leave your valuables at home and go to the Hunters Point projects or to Oakland. You will see quite a difference.
All thinking people know that the the real menace to our way of life ultimately comes from the residue of the African diaspora, and the Islamic assault on Western civilization.

Right below the University of Toronto St. George campus, which is the most well-known U of T campus, there is a gigantic Chinatown.

To be honest I do like shopping there at Chinatown.

You can get 50 HP blank CDs or DVDs for less than 20 dollars in Chinatown. If you go to other places such as Futureshop (
Canadian version of best buy) you will have to pay about twice as much.

you can get a real fine generic keyboard and a mouse combo for less than 10 dollars, and you can get quality printers and everything else for great prices there!! They also sell used cell phones and cameras.

Whenever I need something for my laptop or computer, Chinatown is the only place I shop around.

And I can never get enough of the food sold in Chinatown!! of course, they put ridiculous amounts of MSG and other bad things in the food they sell, but the chow mein still tastes fantastic to me and is very cheap. They also open until 4 AM in the morning!! The restaurants in Chinatown make a lot of money from people in Toronto who party until 2 AM in the morning and then drop by the Chinatown for a late night snack.

And in summer, they sell coconuts on the road for 2 dollars each. If you buy one, they make a hole on it for you and give you a straw to drink from it with.

Trevor W.,

Does slavery and human trafficking not fall under YOUR definition of crime?! What about mass illegal immigration from China? What about the Chinese violating our labor and health laws? What about the Chinese stealing our technology?

Reinstate the Chinese Exclusion Act! And, btw, let’s create a Indian (Hindu) Exclusion Act as well.

Trevor W: the fact that a group of foreigners have an interesting cuisine and don’t shoot Whites is not reason enough to want them in my country. There are Chinese enclaves all over Southeast Asia, and they remain outposts of China, beachheads of Chinese interests. They are not good Americans, despite the fact that they do well in school and limit their violence to their own kind. They see themselves as Chinese and Whites as aliens. They feel no obligation to obey our laws, any more than I feel obliged to follow Chinese law. Their civic lawlessness wouldn’t trouble me if they were in China, but they’re here. What we see as cheating, on tests, on taxes, in every sort of economic activity, the Chinese see as doing what’s good for themselves, their families, and their people. They are not us, and they see us and treat us as foreigners to be taken advantage of. They practice what is called “in-group morality”, and we are the out-group.

Now that the Chinese economy is reversing, there might be less economic pressure on Western countries to accept them, whether legal or illegal.
But they are certainly an integrated group. I teach English as a second language as a part time avocation. On occasion, Chinese ring me up and ask if I am Chinese. When I say I am certainly not, they ask me to ‘understand’ that they want a Chinese teacher because Chinese understand each other best. They get shorter shrift from me than they are likely to expect.
While remaining exclusive though, they are quite happy to feed on our school and health systems, and cry racist whenever they don’t get what they want. The cheat and cram their way into programmes that are beyond their abilities. They bring down the quality of gifted student programmes because they are very rarely gifted and have nothing to contribute. They rarely know anything about their own culture before their own lifetimes, if that, yet insist on their own enclaves. Of course this seclusion on their part is benign because the bulk of the community is under less pressure to deal with them.
But it would be better if they stayed in their Middle Earth Kingdom where there is less chance of them being contaminated by white devils and barbarians.

Here in the USA, Chinese and Japanese populations have the lowest crime rate of all demographic groups.
All thinking people know that the the real menace to our way of life ultimately comes from the residue of the African diaspora, and the Islamic assault on Western civilization.
Posted by Trevor
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Their crime rate may be laudable (but they do engage in other subtle ways of “getting around” the law); but that is entirely beside the point here. Crime isn’t the issue. (Must it be?) The point is that Italy is not China, and China is not Italy. Nor should they be.

Need all groups be rated in contrast to blacks and Moslems?

Visiting tourists, students, businessmen — alright. No objection. But permanent settlements?

How many Italian immigrants are being accepted by China? How many Italian demographic/cultural/economic colonies are being established in China?
None!

They, like all non-white races, will go to extraordingly lengths to avoid paying their share of all forms of taxation into the white governed and white ancestral homelands they’ve been enabled to invade by treasonous indigenous governments.

In the opposite senario, if one is a non-Chinese residing in China, Hong Kong or Taiwan, for instance, it would be highly prudent to acquaint oneself with knowledge of the severity of the punishment regime under their penal system.

Greg Deane: You say the Chinese … “are certainly an integrated group.” Then you go on to say they “remain exclusive” and they “insist on their own enclaves.” You also refer to “this seclusion on their part”. Well, which is it? It seems that whether they get integrated or remain exclusive, you’re going to accuse them of the opposite!

The final nonsense that reveals your outright bias is when you say, “they are very rarely gifted and have nothing to contribute.” That is very unfair. If you’re going to criticize them, at least do so on the basis of some solid facts (which you have not done), not through your own innate emotion-driven prejudice. Frankly, your post is full of contradiction and personal bias. It makes no sense to me.

Anonymous, I know who you are. There is no internal contradiction in what I have written. Using antonyms in a paragraph is not reductio ad absurdum, just a little subtle for your bald mind.

The rest of your diatribe is ad hominem. The facts are well-known regarding Chinese inability to innovate or to interpret or express abstract ideas. The fact that you were unable to interpret sensibly a paragraph with antonyms in it reflects Chinese limitations. Another is the so-called Chinese space programme, where they buy a space vehicle off the Russians and call it their own. Even the Chinese government has implemented a 5 year innovation programme, a ridiculous remedy for a problem that is the result of a lack of national genius. Another indicator of Chinese limitation is the widespread resort to plagiarism, also acknowledged by your own government.

Re Trevor W’s post, there are huge differences between the Chinese and Japanese. Here in Australia I would love more Japanese immigrants, as a respectable, polite, law-abiding people, but in their place please send the rude, obnoxious, penny-pinching, corrupt-business-practicing Chinese home - the same we’ve been letting into the country in droves. I have lived in China for many years, and known plenty of Chinese in Australia, and I can imagine exactly what is going on there in Italy. If there is one group of people who cannot integrate at all and who insist on carrying on as though they were still in their home country and who just don’t give a stuff about the rest of the population, it’s the Chinese.

Trevor,whilst East Asians may committ less crime,they are still a threat to us economically and culturally.