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Without knowledge of English, the immigrant is trapped in Chinatown. As Lee says, "It's like a ghetto. People grow up and spend their entire lives in Chinatown. They are naturally afraid to go outside without any knowledge of English...
During the last year Lee spends about 12 hours a week in Chinatown working at an after-school day care program with 15 to 20 children, referred there because of emotional problems similar to those described by Chin. "The kids that grow up in that environment get either really tough, or beat down," Lee says. "Some were really active and loud; others didn't talk at all. There were two kids there that didn't say anything since I had been there, which was a year. There was a third guy like that, but we got him to say something...
Most of the people who work in Chinatown experience such an emotional demand--nearly all of them are Chinese simply because volunteers need to know Chinese, although there are programs that use only English. Having the same ethnic background works to draw people in. As Doug Lee puts it, "I saw a need in Chinatown and identified with it, because the people who are suffering are like...
Each of the students deeply involved in Chinatown echoes John Wong's concern about ignoring his academic work. But each seems trapped there, as deeply as the non-English speaking immigrants. As Lee describes it, "Once you get in it's hard to get out. Most people just haven't made the plunge yet. But I think if more people went down there and worked for a couple of days they probably wouldn't be able to leave. It just gets inside...
...rapid succession the President met with four Prime Ministers-New Zealand's Wallace Rowling, Australia's Gough Whitlam, Britain's Harold Wilson and Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew-all on their way from a British Commonwealth meeting in Jamaica. To each, Ford gave the same basic message: despite widely voiced doubts in Asia and Europe (see story page 29) about America's dependability as an ally, in the wake of Communist victories in Cambodia and South Viet Nam, those "setbacks in no way weakened U.S. resolve to stand by its allies and friends in Asia...