The author makes all manner of excuses for why it's ok for Asians to cluster time and time again. However, the author bashes whites for simply choosing to live in places that are culturally similar to what they have known all their lives. Whites move out of Asian suburbs in large part because of cultural differences.

I am Caucasian and currently live in a suburban Chinatown in Southern California (So Cal). This town is for all intents and purposes a Chinese territory on American soil. It is a self-serving Chinese community comprised of people who couldn't care less about diversity. The Chinese here snub their noses at the idea of the American melting pot -- many different people with one national identity. It's Chinese tribalism and Chinese thinking exported from one side of the world to the other. Why on earth would I want to live in such a place? Once a place goes Asian like that, the culture becomes radically different.

Asian clustering in America's suburbs is not new, and neither is the movement of non-Asians out of those areas, including Hispanics. The towns of Monterrey Park and Arcadia in So Cal are said to be America's first suburban Chinatowns. Clustering began there in the 1970s. Those areas were then billed as "the Chinese Beverly Hills."

Now, suburban clustering of Chinese and other Asians in So Cal has spread to numerous towns. The So Cal towns of Diamond Bar, Rowland Heights, Hacienda Heights, Irvine, Temple City, Rosemead, San Gabriel, San Marino, Alhambra, Walnut, Cerritos, and Westminster all contain a plurality of Asians. I mention Chinese specifically because their numbers in So Cal dwarf immigrant numbers from the other Asian countries.

Over the last 30 years, the idea of America being a melting pot has been replaced with the philosophy of multi-culturalism. The author unknowingly points out a problem with multi-culturalism. Each culture has the desire to shape the country according to their ideas and in their own image. Such a thing guarantees constant conflict between different cultures advocating for different things.

The author values living in a place that is not American per se but multinational, with stores selling Asian and Middle Eastern food and other items. Not once did she write that she likes American culture or American values or American anything. Moreover, in her zest for labeling whites racist she also tries to dispossess whites of any legitimate claim to the existence of a white culture.

Who created the idea of a melting pot? Whitey. Who created the system of lawful immigration that allows hundreds of thousands of people a year to become either U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the U.S.? Whitey. Who crafted laws against discrimination in the workplace? Whitey. Who fought two bloody civil wars in the U.S., one of which was one of the bloodiest in human history? Whitey. How is whitey repaid? By having dimwits like the author label us racist simply because we enjoy what is traditionally American.

You won't see me wearing red for Chinese New Year or eating moon cakes in the autumn. I like Thanksgiving, Christmas, the Fourth of July, and speaking English. I am unapologetically proud of American traditions, American food, and the American idea of the melting pot. What makes me want to puke are people like the one who wrote this article and even worse the whites who perpetuate a misplaced sense of guilt because they are brainwashed simpletons.