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I personally haven't come to any definite conclusions about this question. But the harsh reality would be that we would be killing ethnic Chinese as well as them killing us. That is the reality of war plain and simple. I wouldn't expect Chinese restaurant workers to consider me in a friendly way since they would have a sound reason not to like me. The worst scenario would be an attempt on their part to contaminate ones food. I enjoy Chinese food but I think that if there was a war between us and them that I would think twice before eating in a Chinese restaurant.
To give you an example of how preposterous this topic is: if we were in a war with France would you still eat French fries?
The likelihood of war with China is about as likely as a war with France. And the connection of French fries to France is about as accurate as a connection of American Chinese food to China.
mmmm, Yea. The Chinese who are here have no love of the Chinese government. I highly doubt they would have any animosity toward the country if we went to war with China. They certainly wouldn't be trying to harm fellow citizens.
There is not going to be a proper war between China and the United States. US cannot invade China and China cannot invade the USA. If anyone try to bomb civilans, they have already lost the war. Bombing military places is going to very difficult and expensive.
So how will a "war" between the US and China look like. It will mostly be some battles between planes and ships in South China Sea over a few islands. It will be very expensive, and both sides will eventually agree to a truce. Absolutly pointless, and hence it is not going to happen, and if it does happen it will only have a small impact on Chinese resturants in the US.
Presuming it's not a nuclear war, that's likely how it will turn out. It would not be a war that plutocrats on either side can profit from, so it won't happen. Even those South China Sea battles will be the result of immediate miscalculations by military forces (bump and shoot) until the plutocrats on each side say WTH and order a ceasefire.
The city of Kitchener, Ontario, was named Berlin until 1916.
Here in the United States, World War I is what finally eradicated the German language. Nativists routinely idealize their immigrant-from-Europe ancestors, claiming that they got off the boat and immediately learned English and left their native tongues behind, but that was hardly so. Hundreds of thousands of American-born children attended public schools with German curricula. They didn't study German as a foreign language - every subject was taught in German because that was the native language of hundreds of thousands of American-born children. German-language newspapers thrived. Per the 1890 census, 11% of people in Wisconsin and 20% of those in Milwaukee spoke only German.
That was what Teddy Roosevelt's "no hyphenated Americans" speech was about.
On a serious note how do you find an "authentic" Chinese restaurant?
Go to Chinatown, San Francisco, and go into the back room of any restaurant, where all the Chinese eat. Completely different menu. You have been warned.
Does the fact that many of the Chinese citizens in this country are seventh and eighth generation Americans play any role in your thinking? How about the fact that China does not own American Chinese restaurants?
Most of the owners and cooks are Taiwanese, anyway. And those who are Mainland Chinese obviously aren't fond of the PRC, or they wouldn't be here.
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