Agreed. Clumping Asians together into one basket is extremely ignorant. As if someone from China, Japan, and Laos share identical cultures, beliefs, background, etc.The obtuseness of the branding [[and of the reporting in today's press) is quite sad. "Asian village" is the best they could do? Let's just define people by a huge continent and not by their ethnicity/nationality, the way these neigbhorhoods generally are named. "We saw that there was a Greektown, and wondered, why not an ASIANtown?" Most of metro Detroit's shopping centers are so "European" or "African
There's just a lack of authenticity about this starting with how they talk about it and name it.
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