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Slum Tourists: When Wealthy People Toured Chinatown ‘For Fun’

Ridiculous History

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The Skis Named Chad Heap

Slavery opened up more progressive thinking around other cultures and, you know, the idea of a people less fortunate or whatever. A lot of these people that were living in these slums were disfranchised, not only because of their race, because of sexuality. You shouldn't treat people like zoo exhibits. And this goes hand in hand with another episode we did quite a while back about just generally this weird racist and exoticiation of chinatown and chinese people in new york. It's very, very interesting.

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