China towns / by My Van Loc

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100% of the metropolitan cities I have travelled to have an area dedicated as Chinatown. I’ve been learning about the ghetto that Chinatown in San Fransisco is, protecting its residents but also a construction sigifying their immobility.

Thinking about my own experiences moving around as I grew up, my immigrant family has also always chosen to surround themselves in the comfort of those like them, in other words, in areas with a high concentration of East Asian commerce and demographic.

In highschool, the group I tended to hang out with during lunch monopolized a table, where we knighted it “China Town”.