On 2/18/2024 11:57 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:
In article <uqt88e$18q79$1@dont-email.me>, ganthony@gmail.net says...
Technobarbarian <technobarbarian@gmail.com> wrote:
"The eighth annual Lunar New Year Dragon Dance and Celebration organized >>> by the Portland Chinatown Museum and presented with the Oregon
Historical Society kicked off in downtown Portland Saturday morning.
Attendees enjoyed entertainment by local lion dance teams and a parade
that featured two dragons around 100 feet long. The parade started near
the Chinatown Gateway at Northwest Fourth Avenue and West Burnside
Street and ended at the Oregon Historical Society on Southwest Park
Avenue."
https://www.oregonlive.com/living/2024/02/lunar-new-year-2024-year-of-
the-dragon-celebrated-in-downtown-portland-photos.html
TB
Sounds like cultural appropriation to me.
That's because you're culturally ignorant.
"In the 1850s, the California Gold Rush attracted emigrants from
Southern China to the American West, including Oregon. They fled the hardships of their homeland in search of a better life in the United
States, mainly working in gold mines, coastal fisheries and railroads.
The men who emigrated from China were not allowed to bring their
families, due to strict American immigration laws, and were subjected to extreme racism and discrimination. The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA) was set up to protect these immigrants.
After the great flood in 1894, Portland was rebuilt, and many Chinese
people moved from what had been Chinatown, at Southwest Second Avenue
and Oak Street, north side of Burnside, where today?s Old Town Chinatown
is located.
By the 1900s, Portland had the second-largest Chinatown on the West
Coast, and 12 percent of the entire city?s population was Chinese. The buildings housed restaurants, Chinese opera theaters, grocers and herbal shops that catered to the Chinese population. Today, Portland?s
Chinatown is a tourist destination rather than a Chinese enclave.
In the past decade, Chinese immigration to Portland has grown rapidly.
The newer generations of immigrants come over as families, are more
educated, and have economic power. Many live and work in the Jade
District and areas between Southeast Powell Boulevard and Division
Street around 82nd Avenue, which is considered the ?New Chinatown.?
https://www.travelportland.com/culture/chinese-american/#:~:text=By% 20the%201900s%2C%20Portland%20had,catered%20to%20the%20Chinese%
20population.
You can still find genuine ethnic food in old town, but for the
best selection you should head to the Jade district. Even out here in
little ol' Tigard, we have several large grocery stores that specialize
in Asian food. Us White guys are a minority in there. I shop there for
items that are hard to find at other stores.
There are also a lot of sources for traditional Chinese medicine
here.
Top 10 Best Traditional Chinese Medicine Near Portland
https://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=tcm&find_loc=Portland%2C+OR
TB
You prove the adage that liberals have no sense of humor. You can't
recognize tongue-in-cheek humor when it slaps you in the face. I guess
it's because you are humor ignorant.
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