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An ethnic enclave is a specific geographic area with a high concentration of people from a particular ethnic or cultural group. An ethnoburb is a suburban area with a significant population of a particular ethnic or cultural group. Ethnic enclaves often try to attract visitors as tourist destinations. Mutual support and easier acculturation are some benefits of ethnic enclaves.
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An ethnic enclave is a specific geographic area with a high concentration of people from a particular ethnic or cultural group. It is often characterized by businesses, institutions, and cultural elements that cater to the needs and preferences of that particular group. An ethnoburb is a suburban area with a significant population of a particular ethnic or cultural group. Ethnoburbs are often seen as suburban areas where people from various ethnic backgrounds have settled.
Ethnic ghettoization is a more organized effort by multiple parties to enforce the maintenance of established ethnic identities and structures of power that benefit one group over others. Historically, the term ghetto has been used to identify areas of a city where specific minority groups were forced to live. In recent years, the term has been largely used by Americans in reference only to poor African-American neighborhoods. It is important to recognize that ghettos have a very long history, can be found in almost every country on earth, and any minority group may be ghettoized. Certainly, the Chinatown districts in many US cities qualified as ghettos during much of the 19th and 20th centuries, before legal changes made housing discrimination unlawful. The Nazis confined Jewish people to ghettos during their reign of terror across Europe. Today, the less value-laden term, ethnic enclave is used by social scientists to describe neighborhoods dominated by a single ethnicity. Some more well-off ethnic enclaves are called ethno-burbs. The large concentration of Asians in Los Angeles' San Gabriel Valley is a good example of an ethno-burb.
Ethnic enclaves often try to attract visitors by theming their location as a tourist destination. Many cities' Chinatowns have done so successfully, turning run-down ghettos into fun, profitable, and visually interesting tourist traps. One of the key strategies used by almost all designers in Chinatowns is to create landscapes with many exaggerated architectural motifs that conform to touristic expectations about what Chinatown should look like, even if one would be challenged to find actual examples of such architecture in China itself. Chinese-
Other benefits may accrue to ethnic groups who remain near each other. Mutual support, in a variety of forms (economic, political, recreational, etc.) is easier when members of an ethnic cluster together. A reduction in some types of conflict may occur if people of like values and traditions are neighbors. Recent immigrants, even those seeking to shed their ethnic heritage, often find ethnic enclaves easier places to begin the acculturation and assimilation process than a neighborhood dominated by the host culture group.
Suburbs are not all white picket fences. In France, the suburbs, known as "banlieues", are synonymous with housing projects and impoverished communities. They are notorious for their ethnic violence and crime, with higher unemployment and more residents living in poverty than in the city center. The banlieues have a much higher immigrant population, which in Paris is mostly Arabic and African immigrants. This contrasts with the typical image of a white-picket-fence suburb in the United States.