The First Koreatown
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> The Pachappa Camp site consisted of a community center duplex along with approximately twenty single-story living spaces. These buildings were originally constructed in the 1880s for Chinese workers who built the Santa Fe railroad and were maintained in poor condition thereafter. The houses were not equipped with gas, water, or electricity, thus the residents used shared outdoor water pumps and outhouses.
So it was more of a worker's camp than something like "Chinatown", "Little Italy" etc. (city neighborhoods dominated by a certain nationality)...
Sociology and Political Science feel a lot more like opinions than science. And, I say that as a computer scientist who is pretty sure computer science isn't a science, its an art. Like maths.
> Everyone knows that economics is the dismal science. And almost everyone knows that it was given this description by Thomas Carlyle, who was inspired to coin the phrase by T. R. Malthus’s gloomy prediction that population would always grow faster than food, dooming mankind to unending poverty and hardship.
> While this story is well-known, it is also wrong, so wrong that it is hard to imagine a story that is farther from the truth. At the most trivial level, Carlyle’s target was not Malthus, but economists such as John Stuart Mill, who argued that it was institutions, not race, that explained why some nations were rich and others poor. Carlyle attacked Mill, not for supporting Malthus’s predictions about the dire consequences of population growth, but for supporting the emancipation of slaves. It was this fact–that economics assumed that people were basically all the same, and thus all entitled to liberty–that led Carlyle to label economics “the dismal science.”
https://www.econlib.org/archives/2015/07/the_origins_of_1.ht...
Turns out if you click through to the actual article in the actual journal: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26499159?mag=the-first-koreatow... you'll see that the original title is "Pachappa Camp: The First Koreatown in the United States".