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===Cultural Shopping District=== {{main|Little India, Artesia}} There are a large number of Indian-owned stores and restaurants along Pioneer Boulevard in Artesia. Despite this concentration of Indian-owned businesses, Asian Indians made up only 7.9% of the population of Artesia in the 2010 Census.<ref name="factfinder.census.gov">[http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/DPDP1/1600000US0602896 Archived copy] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20200212113001/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/DPDP1/1600000US0602896 |date=February 12, 2020 }} ''factfinder.census.gov''</ref> Proposals have often been made to designate a portion of the city as "[[Little India (location)|Little India]]" <ref>{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3427/is_2_35/ai_n31914797/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715035530/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3427/is_2_35/ai_n31914797/ |archive-date=July 15, 2012 |work=Social Justice |first=Michael |last=Liu |title=Changing neighborhood: ethnic enclaves and the struggle for social justice |year=2008 }}</ref> (along the lines of [[Little Saigon]] in nearby [[Westminster, California|Westminster]] and [[Garden Grove, California|Garden Grove]]). Another proposal has been for a "Little India" sign at the Pioneer Boulevard exit off of the [[Artesia Freeway]]. Opposition, primarily from other ethnicities in the city, has so far balked such plans. According to the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' article "Artesia Thinks the World of Itself,"<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-nov-26-me-littleindia26-story.html Artesia Thinks the World of Itself] ''Los Angeles Times''. November 26, 2005</ref> four of five City Council members were outraged at Assemblyman Rudy Bermudez's attempt to make the designation without consulting the local council. The council members won a bill requiring local approval of proposed freeway sign designations. Mayor Larry Nelson said that Indian Americans constituted less than 1% of the city's population and that East Asian markets outnumber Indian ones 3 to 1. Thus, the name is the "International and Cultural Shopping District."
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