Talk:Monterey Park, California

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Has anyone noticed that Monterey Park is undergoing decline? Abandoned Chinese stores, fewer new Chinese restaurants being opened anymore, grassy lots undeveloped. In the 1980s, it used to be active into the night. Theories?

Well, consider these excerpts from the current article:

• By the late 1980s, however, immigrants from Mainland China and Vietnam have moved into Monterey Park as well.
• Since early 1990s, the Taiwanese have been no longer dominant in the city and Cantonese Chinese is now widely spoken and heard in most Chinese businesses of Monterey Park. The construction boom of shopping centers has declined. ... Furthermore, most established, wealthy Taiwanese immigrants have since relocated out of Monterey Park and northward on to wealthier suburbs of San Marino, Arcadia, Temple City, South Pasadena and eastward to Rowland Heights (called the "new Little Taipei" by a local Chinese-language newspaper), Diamond Bar, Hacienda Heights, and Walnut with many Chinese-speaking businesses started in those suburbs to accommodate this particular movement. Nevertheless, there are still countless Chinese-oriented businesses in Monterey Park.
• Interestingly, as the activity of Taiwanese immigrant activity shifted to San Gabriel, Arcadia and Rowland Heights in the 1980s and 1990s, very few trendy Taiwanese restaurants have opened in Monterey Park.

So one feasible explanation would be that immigrants from Mainland China and Vietnam are somehow causing the Taiwanese (who put the "Taipei" in "little Taipei") to leave Monterey Park and take their businesses with them.

I would have to challenge the feasibility of that argument. The Taiwanese are hardly the only business-oriented Chinese group, and as made evident by Valley Boulevard in neighboring Alhambra. The business opportunities proffered by more recent Hong Kong, Mainland China and Southeast Asian immigrants seem more than adequate to fill Valley Blvd with banks and a variety of other businesses. Your assertion, that somehow "immigrants from Mainland China and Vietnam" are causing Taiwanese to leave Monterey Park is little more than a suggestion that such immigrants are driving Taiwanese away. Any such movement would be a result of possibly biased views of those who are moving out of Monterey Park in the first place, and in any case Wikipedia is hardly the place to be promoting a cultural group. Please refrain. April.s 06:47, 17 September 2007 (UTC)