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Home Away from Home:
A Cultural Ethnography in Flushing Chinatown

Chinese food and Asian people – these are usually what my non-Chinese friends would
immediately associate with the word ‘Chinatown’
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In this paper, I will present a short cultural ethnography that I conducted
in Flushing Chinatown with a focus on the perspectives of the Chinese individuals who are
occupying the space
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It is a space that defines them as social beings and wherein a rich history is
treasured hand in hand with a proud ethnic identity
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I will provide a short historical background of Flushing Chinatown and of Chinatowns in
general in the first section
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The third section will focus on the material objects that
are found in this space specifically the foods
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Lastly, I will summarize in
the fifth section the key ideas that I have discussed in the entire paper and present some concluding
statements
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This explains why there
is a Chinatown in different areas all over the world that are not part of mainland China
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Chinatowns emerged as “a result of both labor mobility that had brought immigrants to the
USA as well as a distinct sense of racial otherness that both physically and socially delimited and
confined Chinese migrants to a small area of the city” (Meethan, 2014, p
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There are numerous historical events that influenced many Chinese to migrate to this
country
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In order to avoid atrocities,
many Chinese families looked for another place to live
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New York City is one of the areas outside China with the most number of Chinese residents
(Semple, 2011)
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This cultural ethnography was conducted in Flushing Chinatown which is one of the largest
in the country
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and Roosevelt Lane
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It is a smell of different
foods and ingredients mixed together in the air such as ginger, sweet fruits, sesame seeds, fish, and
rice
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People speaking in a foreign language, which is
usually Cantonese, would also be noticeable to an outsider
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The number of Asian people in the area is to be expected
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This implies that the businesses really
intend to primarily cater to Chinese people more than any other groups
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This could include a pack of bamboo shoots or cured eggs that are a tho

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