Many bigger cities have a “Chinatown” with restaurants serving delicious or dicey food late at night, distinctive signs, tai chi in the park, dim sum joints, big window displays of barbecued meat, and stores selling woks or a thousand other things, etc. The ones in Toronto or San Francisco or New York are bigger than the ones in Montreal or Amsterdam.
What if you were travelling in China, and came across a little version of your hometown? What would it be like? Would it always be under construction? Would it have a bunch of extremely similar summer festivals? What food would they serve? What distinctive features would it have?
(There are Canadian expats; they only sometimes form communities. Maybe during hockey playoffs or the Olympics. Still, someone has to play goalie for the company hockey team…. And that poutine isn’t gonna eat itself…. We all enjoy Bryan Adams, but you have a patriotic duty to include Tool and the Hip and Nickelback…)