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Los Angeles Guidebook

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Recommended: Immigration in the late 19th and early 20th

The guidebook portrays Los Angeles as a glamorous city that is perfect with many activities, where people of all ages will enjoy. It begins with the Tongva tribe who were the first recorded inhabitants of Los Angeles and briefly mentions about the first establishment called El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles. The book does a good job on telling the story of how Los Angeles and the southwestern region became part of America but fails to mention the influx of Chinese immigrants were the ones who help build the transcontinental railroad. Another faulty is the lack of multiple ethnicities who help create the city’s smaller communities due of chain migration (Rubenstein 59). The guidebook tends to concentrate on the creation of Hollywood during the 1920s and baby boom of the fifties. In addition, there is a lack detail of recent history, such as Watts Riots, 1984 Olympics, and Rodney King Riots of the 1990s.
The guidebook promotes more upscale shopping, restaurants, beaches, and the overly-populated tourist cities such as, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Santa Monica. The top recommendations are “skating Venice …show more content…

Los Angeles is a diverse place that has more little sections dedicated to specific ethnicities such as Koreatown, Little Bangladesh, Historic Filipinotown, Little Italy, Little Armenia, Thai Town, Little Ethiopia, and many more that cannot be overlooked because each minority group has shaped the city’s history in some way. Another characteristic that is overlooked are the everyday life. Los Angeles is known for celebrities and life of the rich and famous because that is the lifestyle that is portrayed in movies and television shows. The guidebook concentrates on creating a fantasy in a tourist’s mind and overshadows the idea that a majority of people who live in the city just live normal

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