Those enclaves are seperate cultures from mainland China’s and over time each culture will likely diverge from one another.
Cultures are physically manifested through direct interactions between individuals. Because of that, cultures constantly shift and evolve over small increments, and physical space has a large impact on how those shifts occur. Even if concerted effort is put into making the local enclave’s culture the same as mainland China’s, that enclave has surrounding influences from the American culture it’s inserted into, and it will thus shift differently from the mainland somewhat. The lived experience of each culture is also going to be different in various ways.
Because of this, I think it’s reasonable to state that a person born and raised in New York Chinatown is going to be culturally distinct from a person born and raised in LA Chinatown, and they both would be distinct from a person born and raised in mainland China.
On your point, IIRC the modern American English accent is closer to how the language was spoken in England than what the people in Ingerland speak currently
Edit: I’m wrong and stupid and dumb, the people below me know more about linguistics than I ever will
I’m pushing back gently on this as it’s one of those common internet fun facts, which is somewhat true but more complicated.
Both American English and UK English have gone through a dialectical (get it) change since points of separation.
Both have different idiosyncrasies left from their shared original early modern English. But both are also still quite different and changed by time and material conditions.
Those enclaves are seperate cultures from mainland China’s and over time each culture will likely diverge from one another.
Cultures are physically manifested through direct interactions between individuals. Because of that, cultures constantly shift and evolve over small increments, and physical space has a large impact on how those shifts occur. Even if concerted effort is put into making the local enclave’s culture the same as mainland China’s, that enclave has surrounding influences from the American culture it’s inserted into, and it will thus shift differently from the mainland somewhat. The lived experience of each culture is also going to be different in various ways.
Because of this, I think it’s reasonable to state that a person born and raised in New York Chinatown is going to be culturally distinct from a person born and raised in LA Chinatown, and they both would be distinct from a person born and raised in mainland China.
On your point, IIRC the modern American English accent is closer to how the language was spoken in England than what the people in Ingerland speak currentlyEdit: I’m wrong and stupid and dumb, the people below me know more about linguistics than I ever will
I’m pushing back gently on this as it’s one of those common internet fun facts, which is somewhat true but more complicated.
Both American English and UK English have gone through a dialectical (get it) change since points of separation.
Both have different idiosyncrasies left from their shared original early modern English. But both are also still quite different and changed by time and material conditions.
Specific southern accents.
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