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Commodore Stockton Elementary School
Gordon J. Lau Elementary School ( zh, t=劉貴明小學, s=刘贵明小学), founded as The Chinese School and was once named Oriental Public School, was a public school located in Chinatown Chinatown ( zh, t=唐人街) is the catch-all name for an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside Greater China, most often in an urban setting. Areas known as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world, including Europe, Asia, Africa, O ..., San Francisco, California. It was initially set up in 1859 as a segregated school for schoolchildren of Chinese Americans, Chinese (and later Japanese Americans, Japanese and Korean Americans, Korean) descent, part of the growing anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States that arose in the late 1800s. The school has been renamed a number of times, most recently in 1998 to its current name in honor of the city's first Chinese-American supervisor. History A small private school was briefly mentioned as having started in late 1852 in a letter t ...
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Chinatown, San Francisco
The Chinatown (), centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California, is the oldest Chinatown in North America and one of the largest Chinese enclaves outside Asia. It is also the oldest and largest of the four notable Chinese enclaves within San Francisco. Since its establishment in the early 1850s, it has been important and influential in the history and culture of ethnic Chinese immigrants in North America. Chinatown is an enclave that has retained its own customs, languages, places of worship, social clubs, and identity. The Chinatown district is primarily Cantonese and Taishanese-speaking, both dialects originating in southern China. Most Chinatown residents have origins in Guangdong Province and Hong Kong; albeit there are some Mandarin-speaking residents from Taiwan and central and Northern China, but lesser in comparison to Cantonese-speaking people, despite Cantonese being a minority language amongst people in China and ethnically Chi ...
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