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County has the third largest population of Asians in the country , including one of the largest populations of Vietnamese out of Vietnam itself ( Campbell and Bharath “ O . C . has third highest Asian population in U . S .”). Yen Le Espiritu noted that such large populations of Vietnamese in the United States , and more specifically in California , are one of the largest refugee groups that have settled since the 1970s as a “ result of U . S . military intervention in Southeast Asia ” ( Espiritu 226 ). Orange County has the third largest population of Asians in the country , including one of the largest populations of Vietnamese outside of Vietnam ( Campbell and Bharath “ O . C . has third highest Asian population in U . S .”). According to The Orange County Register , “ Little Saigon sits in the heart of Orange County , five miles from Disneyland ... and within 50 miles of 282,000 Vietnamese-Americans ” (“ Wiki : The history of Little Saigon and the Vietnamese in Orange County ”). Koreatown , with its 60,000 residents , is also known as Little Seoul , and is not far from Little Saigon , often to overlapping it ( Asian Media Group “ Is Orange County the Asian American Dream Come True ?”). Anh Do and Christopher Goffard from the Los Angeles Times suggest that Asian communities in Orange Counties are not separate ethnic enclaves , but rather they are Pan-Asian communities and neighborhoods that share resources like shopping centers and are “ filled nearly equally with Chinese , Korean , Vietnamese and Japanese ” ( Do and Goffard “ Orange County home to third-largest Asian American population in U . S .”).
Over several years of observations in 2014 , 2015 , and 2017 , I have seen Lunar New Year events at DCA transform from small , sparsely-attended events ( 2014 ) to the greatly-expanded and wildly-popular ethnic and panethnic festival of 2017 . In comparison to the nearly six weeks of events for ¡ Viva Navidad ! and its extensive marketing , Lunar New
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