Boston, the capital and largest city of Massachusetts in the eastern United States, is also the oldest and most culturally rich city on the East Coast of the United States. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Mayflower was docked near Boston, where the American Revolutionary War was initiated, as were the Boston Tea Party and the Lexington gunfire. For many years in the early years of the United States, Boston was the center of economy and culture, and in our Chinese parlance, it was the land of the dragons of the United States.

Over time, New York took its place as the center of the economy, but it is still the center of higher education and medical care in the United States, and is home to a host of institutions of higher learning, such as MIT and Harvard. If you want to learn about the early history of the United States, you don't have to go anywhere, first to Boston and then to Philadelphia, and that's pretty much it.

When Americans think of Boston, one word immediately comes to mind: Irish.

The city was largely built by Irish immigrants, and in the mid-19th century there was a potato famine in Ireland, when more than a million Irish fled to the United States, and Boston was the city with the largest concentration of Irish immigrants at that time.

At that time, Irish immigrants were treated similarly to Chinese, and they were at the bottom of society in the United States. Because most of them were illiterate, alcoholic, Catholic, and heavily accented, they were not even welcomed by their white compatriots. Irish immigrants who had just arrived were even prevented from entering the city by locals, and had to run to the cold, damp seashore to build shacks to survive.

In order to support themselves and their families, these newcomers to the Irish do all kinds of work, the men are usually coolies, the women go to work as servants for others, and even the children cannot be idle, and they have to go to the street to sell cigarettes, sweets, newspapers, etc.

But it was difficult to find a job even if they were low-level, they were too fond of drinking, and the early Americans often used this phrase to disparage the Irish. It is said that there is one kind of person in the tavern who is the least popular, the Ires and the drunkard. Aren't these two kinds of people? No, Americans think that if an Irish person walks into a bar, he immediately becomes a drunkard.

Therefore, when many shops hire workers, they will clearly write on the recruitment notice: We do not hire Irishmen!

As a result, the living conditions of the Irish immigrants were even worse, and wherever they moved, the other ethnic groups around them banded together to resist. If you can't resist it, then move all of them and resolutely leave the neighborhood where Irish immigrants live.

It is said that in nineteenth-century America, it was rare to see gray-haired Irish people, as their average life expectancy was less than forty years. Of course, this is an exaggerated metaphor, but it also reflects the life of Irish immigrants at the time.

At that time, there were more Irish than Chinese laborers in the construction of the railway, and there were no fewer deaths. But they are really able to endure it, and since they are here, they don't plan to leave, they must stand here.

After several generations of hard work, it really turned over, and Irish descendants began to be elected magistrates, and then more and more, gradually infiltrating the high-level of Boston, New York and other big cities. At this time, Irish immigrants were able to gain a firm foothold in the United States and gradually have a voice.

The most famous example of this is the Kennedy family, which is located in Boston. It took them four generations to finally put John F. Kennedy on the presidency, and of course, it ended tragically.

But there are other Irish descendants who have been successful, such as the famous Boston Consortium, which is made up of several Irish families, including the Kennedys. Maybe one day another Kennedy will pop up, it's really hard to say.

In addition, there is another characteristic of Irish descendants in the United States, that is, there are many police officers, and once they are not a generation, but a police family, several generations have been engaged in the police profession. This situation is also caused by the times, because the American police did not need to take the test, as long as you are strong and not afraid of death, you can sign up.

This job must be much easier and more decent than going to fight against the big guys, so a large number of young Irish people signed up to become police officers, and it slowly became a tradition.

Every year on St. Patrick's Day, March 7, you can see a huge Irish police force swaggering by. In many American movies, you can also see one or more Irish policemen, which is about to become the traditional culture of Irish immigrants in the United States.

To this day, the city of Boston still has a strong Irish atmosphere, many of the local utilities are green, and even the Boston Celtics jersey is green, which is the color of the Irish flag.

These things are all things that Hong Tao had heard before, he really had never been to this city, and this time he happened to come to make up for the class. However, looking at the map of Boston on the plane, Hong Tao had a little headache.

The city was built at the mouth of three rivers, and the various peninsulas and waterways cut the area around the city into pieces, and the city was not usually built in such an area.

In fact, Hong Tao was almost blind, and he didn't find a few horizontal and vertical roads to come out. This is too different from the capital and New York that he is familiar with, and he is not used to it, but he has a fight with Venice.

Suddenly landing from Southern California in a sunny, beachy babe, hot pants bikini to Boston's Logan Airport on the northeast coast is like flying non-stop from Hainan Island to Changchun in early summer. The temperature plummeted by more than 10 degrees, and the sea breeze at night was cold and cold, even if I had put on my jacket, I was still shivering.

Jin Yue studied at the Boston School of Architecture, located on Newbury Street, and it was already ten o'clock in the evening, and Hong Tao didn't want to bother her. After all, she was staying in someone else's house, and it would be scary to come to the door so late without saying hello in advance. It's okay to explore the surroundings and see if there are any suitable hotels around.

If it is during the day, Hong Tao will definitely try the Boston subway, it is said that it was built at the end of the 19th century, the carriages and stations are antique, and there are no platforms, much like a streetcar. But it's night, and Hong Tao is not sure if the subway here will run day and night, so to be on the safe side, he might as well call a car and rent a car.

Like many big cities in the United States, taxi drivers are basically first-generation immigrants, and the driver Hong Tao caught up with this time is a middle-aged man from Algeria, whose English is really bad, and I don't know how he got the qualifications.

But this did not prevent Hong Tao from communicating smoothly with him, because Hong Tao's own spoken English also rose from very bad and bad through constant communication, and it was appropriate to deal with this kind of southern and northern tone. If you don't understand, you can compare, and if you don't understand, there is a map, anyway, as long as you let the driver know where you are going and what you are doing.

Boston at night is still quite beautiful, it is not as big as New York and Chicago, there are not many high-rise buildings, and there are not too many vehicles and pedestrians. Drilling out of the undersea tunnel is the North Point of Boston, and then all the way west, the lower the floors and the older the buildings.

When the driver parked in front of a hotel, there were no tall buildings around, all of them Victorian. The hotel itself, Eliot, is a red-brick six-story building with marble pillars, window sills and reliefs at the entrance, and a date of its construction in 1925 engraved on the wall.

Hong Tao is very satisfied with this hotel, which is equivalent to saying that the capital lives in the courtyard, on luxury, style, advanced equipment may not be as good as the new hotel, but on the feeling, style, or very good. Of course, the taxi driver has a lot of credit, twenty-one yuan fare, let's make up a whole for you, thirty yuan, don't look for it!

Before entering the door, Hong Tao chatted with the black doorman at the door, which is a trick, and the best way to understand a city is to talk to taxi drivers, doormen, and restaurant waiters.

Because of their profession, they know the characteristics of the whole city, the level of consumption, and can provide you with information that is appropriate to your situation. Similarly, if you are shrunken and reluctant to tip a few dollars, they will trick you into being a master. It is guaranteed that you will be ruined and troubled, and they can't be blamed for the end.