Class diversity increased within ethnoburbs because family from China would join their relatives and sometimes take on low-skilled jobs. I thought it was interesting that not only did class diversity increase, but over time the ethnic diversity in towns increased as well because the wealthier Chinese did not feel a need to stay in their potentially overcrowded ethnoburbs. As they climbed the ladder, they no longer felt a need to be in a place that was familiar to home.

The statistics for the rate of change of ethnic groups in Flushing and Sunset Park make it seem like the Chinese communities pushed the non-hispanic whites out, which is different from what you usually hear about the middle or upper class white man taking over and pushing out the lower class, such is the case with the gentrification of the Upper East Side.