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Boston's Chinatown is small--eight square blocks--and quiet. The only testament to its presence is a large marble gate straddling Beach Street. From South Station, the arch announces Chinatown. Through the arch, the Rainbow Restaurant is one block down on Beach Street. The Rainbow is a Vietnamese and Chinese restaurant and it serves cheap, good food. A Chinese family that immigrated to Boston from Vietnam runs the restaurant...
...family has six children. The youngest three were born in the United States. The oldest three--two men and a woman--are 21, 22, and 24. One brother works at the Rainbow in the mornings, and the other is an engineering major at Boston University...
Corrina's accent is strong and she speaks in excited fast sentences that lurch from place to place. Now she is the oldest; her older brother was killed this summer in a motorcycle accident. She works full-time at the Rainbow, sometimes thirteen hours a day. Sometimes she complains that her brothers are free to do what they want while she is expected to work. Typical of Asian immigrant families, she says...
Corrina's brother Langlo will graduate in January from B.U. Langlo works in the Rainbow on Sunday nights. He is open and friendly and speaks with many of the customers. But he is reticent when it comes to his family's history. "I don't want my history being published," he says. "I'm planning to write a book myself. When I graduate, I'm going to write a book about how much we had to struggle...
...Rainbow has cleared out. Langlo'sparents are putting away lettuce and rice andsoup. Someone is cleaning the kitchen. Langlodarts from table to table, wiping them down,sweeping the floors. "People think Chinatown's notsafe, because of the race. People are afraid ofChinese people...