Signal drowning - ethnic history
Apr. 10th, 2010 01:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI was trying to find out the history of Chinese people in Norwich. But every way I google for it I just get a ton of Chinese restaurants. *facepalm*
"What did the Chinese do for us?" reckons "The Chinese population has been in Norwich for an estimated 50 years" and "Chinese population [...] in the 2001 demographic census was 1,399 - not including several hundred students at UEA" but it also reckons "Across Norfolk the Chinese community is one of the largest ethnic groups behind Indian and Asian."
... Chinese is not Asian? Bzuh?
The article is about (a) Chinese New Year dragons and (b) Chinese restaurants. "meals, mah-jong and of course firecrackers, gongs and dragons." Ah, and waaaaaay down the page it mentions "The Chinese population are involved with a wide variety of occupations, for example there are many Chinese Doctors at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital."
There's a mention of a couple of Chinese Associations which work to raise awareness, so they've probably got more information. I google for them.
... I find first something about illegal immigrants.
So,I guess I'm finding some things about usual portrayals of Chinese people in the media then.
So far, nobody mentioned martial arts. That's the only surprise.
"What did the Chinese do for us?" reckons "The Chinese population has been in Norwich for an estimated 50 years" and "Chinese population [...] in the 2001 demographic census was 1,399 - not including several hundred students at UEA" but it also reckons "Across Norfolk the Chinese community is one of the largest ethnic groups behind Indian and Asian."
... Chinese is not Asian? Bzuh?
The article is about (a) Chinese New Year dragons and (b) Chinese restaurants. "meals, mah-jong and of course firecrackers, gongs and dragons." Ah, and waaaaaay down the page it mentions "The Chinese population are involved with a wide variety of occupations, for example there are many Chinese Doctors at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital."
There's a mention of a couple of Chinese Associations which work to raise awareness, so they've probably got more information. I google for them.
... I find first something about illegal immigrants.
So,I guess I'm finding some things about usual portrayals of Chinese people in the media then.
So far, nobody mentioned martial arts. That's the only surprise.