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

Ridiculous History

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I Love Ta Upper Class Titters. Whatcall There Is?

It's just sort of like a weird, gross facet of human nature to want to do weird stuff like this. And was this good for the people who actually did have to live in these slums and spend their days there working? Well, unfortunately, according to multiple articles fom everything from atlass obscure to the national graphic it didn't help them out much. It does become kind of a case of parallel thinking, though, because the practical knowledge here is not necessarily that new yorkers were copying what was going on in london.

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