Should Chinatowns in America be torn down?

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19. "Chinatowns" are GROWING, not going away

Go to Northeastern Queens, NY.

Main Street Flushing may as well be in Hong Kong, except that in addition to Chinese, you also have Korean signs and stores all up and down the street. Moreover, while this phenomenon was limited to Main between the Kissena intersection and Northern Boulevard just 20 years ago, the Asian signs and businesses now track all the way east on Northern Boulevard, well into Bayside, all the way to the Cross Island Parkway and beyond.

Mind you, this is completely separate from "Chinatown" in Manhattan, but it probably has a higher concentration of Asian businesses. Again, the whole area has been radically transformed from even 25 years ago. These were majority white enclaves (Bayside, Auburndale, North Flushing, Whitestone, College Point) and Latino and African American areas (parts of north Flushing, Latimer Gardens, the Bland Houses, etc.) that have switched to either majority Asian or near majority Asian in less than a generation, a rapid demographic change.

The City Council rep for Flushing is now Asian.
The NY Assembly rep for the 40th Assembly district is Asian.
The US Representative for NY's 6th district is an Asian woman.

Going away? Torn down? These people have no sense of reality in cities.