"Chinatown" is not racist
Mar. 28th, 2009 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
christopher575We don't call the area "the International District" because it would be racist to call it Chinatown. It's just that there's more to it. I explain in the comments here.
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Date: 2009-03-28 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-28 05:52 pm (UTC)Gem is right. If I were in a back alley bar in the ID with nothing but older Chinese men, I'd be a shitton more scared than if I'd walked into a seedy bar with nothing but black men.