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Gang activity in Long Beach and Cambodia Town was most active from 1989 to 1995, through street fights, drive-by shootings and killings. [5] In America by the Numbers Pass or Fail in Cambodia Town, one of the interviewees stated that "we had to protect ourselves," when talking about the difficulties of growing up in the United States. [20]
California's first state-legislated Southeast Asian model curriculum aims to change that. ... People attend the Cambodia American Studies Conference at a hotel in Long Beach on Nov. 15 ...
By 2010 census numbers, Philadelphia's Cambodia Town is the fourth largest Cambodia Town in the United States, trailing only Long Beach, Lowell, and Stockton. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Its main commercial corridor is along S. 7th Street — and to some extent S. 6th and even S. 8th Streets — between Morris Street to the north and Oregon Avenue to the south ...
In Southern California, there is a large Cambodian population in Long Beach, and smaller yet significant communities of Cambodians are present in Los Angeles and San Diego metropolitan areas. Four percent of Long Beach's population is of Cambodian descent, mainly concentrated on the city's east section, where there is a Cambodia Town ...
Lek, 30, was born and raised in Long Beach to parents who emigrated from Battambang, in northwestern Cambodia. "I'm the first generation of an immigrant family that grew up really poor on Section ...
Vietnamese-American culture in California (2 C, 24 P) Pages in category "Asian-American culture in California" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
Sankranta means "beginning of a new year" in Khmer, Cambodia's official language. But some Cambodian American elders in Long Beach strongly object to the new festival's name.
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