What is the 626? Following an LA Times feature on the 626 Night Market and the Fung Bros, Calvin Ho of The Plaid Bag Connection was put off by how the San Gabriel Valley was represented.
What about the Hispanic population? What about everyone else that isn’t Asian?
He wrote on his blog:
I argued that the attempts by this self-proclaimed “movement” to brand the San Gabriel Valley as a second-generation Asian foodie playground creates a narrative that minimizes non-Asian ethnic groups, immigrants, and people on the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum. It seems like I’m not the only “626″ native uncomfortable with this re-branding. Food blogger Justin Aung Lee responds to the controversy with a well-written post and a cool graphic.
We connected with him via Vumanity and asked him a little bit more on his views. What do you guys think — what is the 626?
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The thing I find funny is that it’s Calvin Ho (a non-hispanic) who’s bringing this issue up. Sooooo, myself, as a...
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