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Most of the Asian areas that I know about and where I had friends live in specific areas were SAFE. I was East Coast born and raised.
I had born in America Chinese heritage close SCHOOL friends AND their parents and other OLDER relatives were legal immigrants. Mae Ling and Kay Anne. They were cousins. I had other friends from all backgrounds too.
Most of them had businesses in good and some in poorer areas of the city. Some of them stayed in the city and some of them moved to the county or to a couple of different counties in MD.
Restaurants - 2 for sure and 1 dry cleaning store. They were close friends of mine - 2 cousins. I stayed at their homes and they stayed in mine. The one smaller restaurant had LIVING QUARTERS above it in Baltimore. When the riots HIT in the 60's - the black and white people in the NEIGHBORHOOD with the smaller restaurant PROTECTED their homes, businesses AND that small Chinese carry out place with only a couple of seating places in it. They even protected a place/building where they had Chinese language school on Saturdays in the same area.
IT WAS NOT like the FAMOUS Korean roof top type of protection in LA but they did LOOK OUT FOR ONE ANOTHER and were not going to take jack squat from OUTSIDERS and so forth in VERY SPECIFIC poorer and even middle class and richer areas of the city and county.
One old Libertarian, black, male friend of mine lived in a neighborhood where the black and white OLD DAD'S and grandparents had shotguns. He told me that his DAD had a shotgun and said that he was NOT going to let some RIOTING THUG/thugs burn down his house and murder his family AND FRIENDS! I met him when he became a Libertarian many moons ago. There was no Libertarian Party in the 60's and HIS family were pretty conservative and so were his other family members. He worked for the IMF and he loved the PAY and benefits but he did not really LIKE his job. I believe that the LP started in the early 70's - 71? CRS now. LOL
Old Lady Cate
I had born in America Chinese heritage close SCHOOL friends AND their parents and other OLDER relatives were legal immigrants. Mae Ling and Kay Anne. They were cousins. I had other friends from all backgrounds too.
Most of them had businesses in good and some in poorer areas of the city. Some of them stayed in the city and some of them moved to the county or to a couple of different counties in MD.
Restaurants - 2 for sure and 1 dry cleaning store. They were close friends of mine - 2 cousins. I stayed at their homes and they stayed in mine. The one smaller restaurant had LIVING QUARTERS above it in Baltimore. When the riots HIT in the 60's - the black and white people in the NEIGHBORHOOD with the smaller restaurant PROTECTED their homes, businesses AND that small Chinese carry out place with only a couple of seating places in it. They even protected a place/building where they had Chinese language school on Saturdays in the same area.
IT WAS NOT like the FAMOUS Korean roof top type of protection in LA but they did LOOK OUT FOR ONE ANOTHER and were not going to take jack squat from OUTSIDERS and so forth in VERY SPECIFIC poorer and even middle class and richer areas of the city and county.
One old Libertarian, black, male friend of mine lived in a neighborhood where the black and white OLD DAD'S and grandparents had shotguns. He told me that his DAD had a shotgun and said that he was NOT going to let some RIOTING THUG/thugs burn down his house and murder his family AND FRIENDS! I met him when he became a Libertarian many moons ago. There was no Libertarian Party in the 60's and HIS family were pretty conservative and so were his other family members. He worked for the IMF and he loved the PAY and benefits but he did not really LIKE his job. I believe that the LP started in the early 70's - 71? CRS now. LOL
Old Lady Cate
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