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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 ]
The neighborhood consists of all or portions of the 90815, 90808, 90804, and 90803 ZIP codes and is adjacent to the Traffic Circle, the California State University, Long Beach campus, the Los Angeles County cities of Lakewood and Hawaiian Gardens, and the Orange County cities of Cypress and Los Alamitos.
Last month, the Orange County Department of Education hosted a two-day academic conference at the Long Beach Hilton to roll out the Cambodian American Model Studies Curriculum. Over 500 people ...
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 2014, it was reported that Cambodia Town, Long Beach, California, the only officially recognized ethnic enclave of Cambodian Americans, had a poverty rate of 32.4%. [21] That was a little over twice the average of America society as a whole, which was 16% according to a 2011 study by the government. [20]
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 ...
Broad Avenue, Koreatown in Palisades Park, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA, [6] where Koreans comprise the majority (52%) of the population. [7] India Square in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, is one of at least 24 Indian American enclaves characterized as a Little India which have emerged within the New York City Metropolitan Area, with the largest metropolitan Indian population ...
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