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[[Image:San Francisco Chinatown.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Chinatown in San Francisco]]

This article discusses '''Chinatown patterns in North America'''. For the purposes of this article [[North America]] is defined as [[Canada]] and the [[United States]]. For a broad survey of individual Chinatowns in the region, see [[Chinatowns in North America]].  For information on [[Chinatown]]s in [[Mexico]] and [[Central America]], please refer to [[Chinatowns in Latin Americ(contracted; show full)

===Professionalism and occupations===
The Chinese in the new Chinatowns, many of whom are wealthy professionals, tend not to be isolated from the rest of American society
{{fact}} <!--this is disputable, at least in Canada-->, and the institutions of the new Chinatowns, such as Asian Chambers of Commerce, are much less powerful<!--than what?-->.  Also, in contrast to Chinese immigrants of the [[19th century]], there are large numbers of Chinese who live outside of Chinatown in suburbia.  In contrast to the old urban Chinatowns, many, if not all, of the Chinese living in these communities&mdash;especially Chinese American [[corporate officer|executives]], [[computer programmer]]s,  [[banker]]s, [[physician|doctors]], [[dentist]]s, [[lawyer]]s, [[real estate agent]]s, [[college professor]]s&mdash;are able to communicate more fluently in Eng(contracted; show full)|Los Angeles, Houston, Oakland, Toronto
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Sources: United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Citizenship and Immigration Canada

[[Category:Chinatowns]]
[[Category:Chinese American history]]