`==Changed ``Chinese run pawnshops`` to ``pawnshops``== To call pawnshops, that fence stolen goods, ``Chinese run`` is a primitive form of relative Orientalism: it attempts to re-present the homegrown crime as somehow from abroad, from an ``orient``, here China. The fact is that sinoThai are Thai in the modern sense, not ``Chinese`` unto the next generation, and no more likely to be crooks than Tai people.   `