some people care. but I think they are in the minority. The recent petition by some middle aged white ladies in Richmond failed to convince the city government.
the demographics are changing, and people will have to adjust. the older generations will not be able to integrate smoothly, but 2nd and 3rd generations will do better. That's how it always have been, New immigrants from Italy, Ireland, Greece, Russia, are similar. Maybe they pick up the language faster.
The difference maybe that due to the new immigration requirements, many of the Chinese who get here are wealthy, and do not need to speak English as urgently, for example, to get a job here etc. And due to the numbers and concentration of Chinese in a place say Richmond, it is very easy to get around without fluency in English. This was not the case when I moved to Richmond in 1984.
Still, I think commercial ads and signs can be any language. That doesn't bother me. The products sold, esp food items, must have English/French labels. And public places and government related, should have the official languages. Other than that, I don't care.
Was in Toronto a few weeks ago, and even the police department entrance at Dundas St. is written in Chinese.
Bunch of places in NYC where I live is no different. If u go to Flushing, Queens, in Chinese malls it resembles Aberdeen in Richmond. My American gf said it seemed like a foreign country there.
On the subways in NYC, they often have chinese only, korean only, or russian only signs, which you can decipher based on the pics on it, that it was sending safety messages about train accidents and tells peeople to look out for people who are drunk or ill and might fall on to the tracks.
Many other signs are spanish, russian or chinese only, and they are ads for classes teaching english.
People dont go around petition to ban these signs. It's NYC.