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Yeah this is about Chinatowns and I found this to be very interesting because I love a good

Chinatown or a good Japan town.

I like ethnic groupings of love Koreatown, he's a living your Koreatown in LA.

Actually I was in little Armenia technically, it was my neighborhood but I like groupings

of ethnicities.

I think it's cool.

I think it's something that people might naturally do but in the case of Chinatowns it's

not only something that can help immigrants as they come into the country and did from

the very beginning but sadly the dark side is they were a necessity because of racial

exclusion and to protect themselves and seek refuge among their own because for many

many years in this country there was and some might say there's anti-Asian bias that

continues today in the wake of COVID and by some might say I mean it's fairly obvious

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