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==Definition== [[Oxford Dictionaries (website)|Oxford Dictionaries]] defines "Chinatown" as "...{{nbsp}}a district of any non-Asian town, especially a city or [[seaport]], in which the population is predominantly of Chinese origin".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/Chinatown|title=Definition of Chinatown|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228215015/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/Chinatown|archive-date=2014-02-28}}</ref> However, some Chinatowns may have little to do with China.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kitv.com/news/hawaii/where-you-live/where-you-live-chinatown/24595340 |title=Where You Live Chinatown |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301230646/https://www.kitv.com/news/hawaii/where-you-live/where-you-live-chinatown/24595340 |archive-date=2014-03-01 }}</ref> Some "Vietnamese" enclaves are in fact a city's "second Chinatown", and some Chinatowns are in fact [[pan-Asian]], meaning they could also be counted as a [[Koreatown]] or [[Little India]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/littlesaigonssta0000agui |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/littlesaigonssta0000agui/page/33 33] |title=Little Saigons: Staying Vietnamese in America|publisher=U of Minnesota Press |isbn=9780816654857|last1=Juan|first1=Karin Aguilar-San|year=2009}}</ref> One example includes [[Asiatown, Cleveland|Asiatown]] in [[Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. It was initially referred to as a [[Old Chinatown, Cleveland|Chinatown]] but was subsequently renamed due to the influx of non-Chinese [[Asian Americans]] who opened businesses there. Today the district acts as a unifying factor for the Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Japanese, Filipino, Indian, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Nepalese and Thai communities of Cleveland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unmiserable.com/cleveland/archive/?p%3D713 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-02-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304101411/http://www.unmiserable.com/cleveland/archive/?p=713 |archive-date=2016-03-04 }}</ref> Further ambiguities with the term can include Chinese [[ethnoburb]]s which by definition are "...{{nbsp}}[[suburban]] ethnic clusters of residential areas and business districts in large metropolitan areas<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-5743-9780824836719.aspx|title=Ethnoburb: The New Ethnic Community in Urban America|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140303214959/http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-5743-9780824836719.aspx|archive-date=2014-03-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-26/asians-in-thriving-enclaves-keep-distance-from-whites.html|title=Asians in Thriving Enclaves Keep Distance From Whites|newspaper=Bloomberg.com |date=26 June 2013 |access-date=2 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122212519/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-26/asians-in-thriving-enclaves-keep-distance-from-whites.html|archive-date=22 January 2015}}</ref> An article in ''[[The New York Times]]'' blurs the line further by categorizing very different Chinatowns such as [[Chinatown, Manhattan]], which exists in an urban setting as "traditional"; [[Chinese enclaves in the San Gabriel Valley|Monterey Park's Chinatown]], which exists in a "suburban" setting (and labeled as such); and [[Chinatown, Austin|Austin, Texas's Chinatown]], which is in essence a "fabricated" Chinese-themed mall. This contrasts with narrower definitions, where the term only described Chinatown in a city setting.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/travel/chinatown-revisited.html|title=Chinatown Revisited|newspaper=The New York Times |date=24 January 2014 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706171445/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/travel/chinatown-revisited.html?_r=0|archive-date=2017-07-06|last1=Tsui |first1=Bonnie }}</ref>
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