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Sat, Jan 16, 2021
Parts of the Chinese diaspora form dominant colonies in foreign, under-developed towns. That applies to Sihanouk city, which doubles and evolves fast as ambitious Chinese immigrants become majoritarian, setting up their own businesses, developing real estate and employing mainly Chinese staff and subcontractors. Despite officials enforcing some respect for the Khmer language and culture, native Cambodians feel squeezed out, looked down upon, while prizes rise.
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Sat, Jan 30, 2021
Ruben visits the Serbian mine town of Bor and its Chinese diaspora, which is employed by Chinese companies and investments that are realizing part of the New Silk Road, including the modernized copper mine. The former Yugoslav state has a historical bond with China, but especially younger generations have modern aspirations. Chinese laborers and their families grow apart from the locals, who try to defend their customs and worry for the endangered environment.
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Sat, Feb 6, 2021
Ruben visits the largest Chinese diaspora in the West, US, notably the vast Chinatown of L.A. during the Trump reelection campaign which many of them join, being industrious, wealthy Republicans, who abhor the 'positive discrimination' that favors less industrious minorities while Asian do better then average by their own efforts. While excelling in education and enterprise, they wrestle with a double identity, remaining very Chinese while proud of US citizenship, while their homeland families scold that as treason.
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Sat, Feb 20, 2021
Ruben is back is his Dutch home country. It also has a Chinese community, which is less invasive and better integrating when staying to do business, ambitiously, except the local-born generations tend to become more European than their ancestors like. Furthermore, the Chinese are prominent among the foreign students, often getting great grades, but eager to return home, feeling unwelcome and discriminated, despite adopting lots of Western culture.