You could be in Shanghai, China, or even San Francisco's Chinatown.

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Growing up in San Francisco with frequent trips to Chinatown, I interacted with newly arrived Chinese as well as third- and fourth-generation Asians who spoke without accents.

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That process requires a very different kind of thought process and one which I developed as a child when I discovered puzzle boxes in Chinatown in San Francisco.

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For example, the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), David Strickland, convened a roundtable meeting with the Chinatown Community Development Center in San Francisco to discuss traffic and pedestrian safety issues.

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