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I see that everywhere in USA also.

You see names written in Chinese and English everywhere in the USA? Or did you mean something else? Because if that's what you meant to say, that is absolutely not how things are "everywhere in the USA".

Yes, it is very common in urban and even suburban USA to find stores, and in larger cities entire neighborhoods of stores, where names are in both Latin and some other script, and other text is in English and some other language (whether or not both use the Latin alphabet.) It's not too uncommon in, say, California to see this for several different east asian languages (Chinese being the nost common generally, but there is regional variation), Spanish, and maybe Arabic and/or Russian, in a single moderately sized city.

I live in Texas, and have lived in California and New York. In all three of these places the areas with a large Chinese presence will have stores with names in both Chinese and English.

This is absolutely common in the US in pretty much any large city, I can't imagine someone having never seen this before in the US unless they never lived or went to an area that was diverse. And its not just Chinese, many places will have Korean names, Japanese names, and of course on the other end Spanish names accompanied by english but most are more used to this.

As someone who regularly shops at those sorts of places, there is a large part of the US population that ignores or is otherwise unaware of them, most of my family included. I've had multiple conversations where people have been shocked when informed that there's an Asian or Mexican market a short distance away that they had no idea existed.

We all live in private worlds that are overlaid on top of the same geography.

The Mexican market near me has the best bread in town. I’m often the only English speaker in the store when I stop in.

I see it in Chinese restaurants, sure. And in Chinatowns. (And with Spanish in the southwest.) I don't see it on "almost every store" "everywhere in the US", though.

I think you're simply taking "everywhere in the US" too literally then if your interpretation of that was "almost every store".

"Almost every store" is a direct quote from nomdep.

Nomdep was referring to the pictures in TFA -- the rest of the comments are explaining why a mall may look like that. Not an entire city.

A reasonable interpretation of "you see that everywhere" is "most cities have a mall or neighborhood that would result in a similar set of pictures.

It's incredible how many "hackers" in this thread don't understand how quantifiers work in contexts other than code. How the hell does this industry translate business needs into code without this rudimentary skill?

Did you really think that OP meant that literally almost every single store in the U.S. has Chinese names written on their storefront?

Even out here in the sticks, the local Chinese restaurant has both English and Chinese menus.

It’s quite likely that the only people around here who can read the Chinese menus work there or are related to those who work there.

From what I've seen, it is an established and expected cultural practice for "ethnic" restaurants in US to have bilingual menus regardless of their actual location. It could be a Mexican restaurant in an area that is 99% white Anglos, and it will still have menu in English and Spanish.

Personally I think it's great; it means that you get some exposure to other languages even if you never leave your corner of the woods.

I’ve been twice in USA recently and I didn’t see that anywhere.

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