Walk the Mid-Autumn Festival Street Fair Chinatown, San Francisco
Monday, September 12, 2011 | 1 comment
San Francisco is a multi-cultural city full of immigrants from all over the world. Like many other Chinatown all over the world, the Chinatown at San Francisco is within a few minutes walk from downtown San Francisco where major headquarters and offices located. This town is a major first stop from Chinese new immigrants to land. Here they can speak Chinese, buy foods imported from all provinces of China and find a reasonable price logging. It also has good public transport linked to different parts of City for their work. No wonder the house price in San Francisco is comparatively speaking stable. Every year the 15th of August in Lunar Calendar is Mid-Autumn Festival. This year it falls on today, September 12, 2011 that is one day after the 9/11. In spite of the potential danger of going out on 9/11, lots and lots of people still enjoyed walking.
I feel very grateful that my son, unlike other teenagers, did not share the not so good American culture of “independence” and still willing to walk the fair together with me. He enjoyed watching all different Chinese cultural stuff and volunteered helping to carry the “goodies” I bought. I remember when I was at his age, 14, I did not have the concept of going out with parents is shameful or sign of independence. The big issue in the American education is lack of moral training. I can understand this might be difficult of USA is the mixing pot and people from different cultures barely mixed like salad. However, there are some special moral concept about relationship between parents and children from China that categorize that children should pay special respect to parents and elderly. I have followed this concept and I never talked back to my parents even though I did not agree to their points of view sometimes.
Putting on my hat of “realtor”, it is truly amazing how the real estate price had been supported by streams of new immigrants. I have many clients who literally shipped their money from China to buy real estate properties in San Francisco and nearby cities. No wonder, the house price at the Sunset district of San Francisco seems have not dropped much, maximum 20% which is nothing in comparison with other places.
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Yes,San Francisco is a multi-cultural city full of immigrants from all over the world. So it must be fantastic to live there. You can feel so much culture. It will make your life colorful.