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Actually in Seattle it's called the "International District". Which is also apparently not deemed to be racist.
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Quote History Quoted:Quoted:Yeh, sorta like "Chinatown" - except that unlike Chinatown, it's apparently not deemed to be racist.
Actually in Seattle it's called the "International District". Which is also apparently not deemed to be racist.
Years ago in Seattle I was helping SE Asian immigrants to learn English. The first day I got paired up with a Vietnamese guy and I pulled out my city map and asked him where he lived. "Zhi Dthow" he replied, more or less, pointing at the map. After a few more tries I worked it out and exclaimed "Oh, Chinatown" and he smiled and nodded.
I was pretty happy with how it was going. I mean, he had understood my question and answered me in English, just with a very thick accent, and we had a map full of places we might be able to talk about. Right then one of the organization's more senior people told us in a scolding tone "It's called the
International District."
This was before taxonomists had even named and defined the Karen, but I knew in that moment that I had more in common with the fresh-off-the-boat immigrant than with this woman even though we shared a lot of surface attributes. Two of us were acting like normal, friendly human beings and she was putting political correctness before basic stuff like being able to communicate.