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海外文化:美国唐人街缓慢衰落The BBC visits New Yorks Chinatown for the new year celebrations to see how the community is changing为进一步了解美国华人群体的变化，英国广播公司探访了纽约唐人街的新年庆祝活动。Chinatowns are a feature of many US cities, but some of the best known are succumbing to gentrification, campaigners say. Even one of the largest and most vibrant, in Manhattan, is slowly being invaded by luxury shops and apartment buildings.唐人街是众多美国城市的一个特点，但社会活动家称，一些最有名的唐人街正不得不顺应社区高档化（即贵族化）趋势的发展。甚至其中最大和最有活力的曼哈顿唐人街也正在逐渐被豪华商店和公寓楼所侵蚀。Its late afternoon and Mei Rong Song is serving a few last customers in Lao San Snack on East Broadway. Giant metal pots steam behind a counter stacked with metal trays of pigs blood, heart and intestines. Mei has run her restaurant for a decade, catering to a wave of immigrants who began arriving in the 1980s from Fuzhou in south-eastern China.傍晚，在东百老汇的“老三小吃”，梅荣松（音译）正在为最后几名用餐的顾客服务。柜台上堆放着盛着猪血、猪心、猪肠的金属托盘，后面巨大的金属蒸笼正煮着（食物）。梅的餐厅已经开了十年，用餐顾客主要是20世纪80年代开始移民过来的一波来自中国东南部福州地区的移民。But high rents have been pushing Chinese immigrants out of the area, their place taken by wealthier white tenants.但高昂的租金使得中国移民逐渐退出该地区，富裕的白人接手这些地方取而代之。My shop has Fuzhou speciality foods, and as Fuzhounese people stop living in this neighbourhood theres less and less demand for what I sell, she says. I dont know that I can stay for more than a year or two.“我的店供应福州特色食品，但随着这一街区的福州人逐渐搬迁，我店里的顾客也越来越少。”她说道，“我不知道我还能在这待一年多还是两年。”Rapid immigration led to the formation of US Chinatowns in the late 19th Century, though a long period of exclusion and discrimination for the Chinese began around the same time. The next large wave of arrivals followed the 1965 Immigration Act, but in recent decades older Chinatowns have shrunk.19世纪后期，频繁的中国移民使美国形成了唐人街，尽管华人从一开始就遭受了长期的排挤和歧视。随着1965年移民法案的颁布，一大波的中国移民接踵而来。但近几十年来旧的唐人街却在收缩。Chinatowns are turning into a sanitised ethnic playground for the rich to satisfy their exotic appetite for a dim sum and fortune cookie fix, says Andrew Leong, one of the authors of a recent report that charted gentrification in