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Baltic and Mediterranean Avenues have some fine ethnic restaurants that are run successfully by first generation Americans. They locate there because the rent is cheap. but you have to run off the homeless so they don't panhandle the customers, and you keep a 9mm under the cash register in case you need to stay alive. But because you want a better life than you had in the hell hole country you were born in you work hard and you teach your kids to work hard, to respect other people's civil rights, appreciate freedom, and to stand on their own two feet. Your kids start their own businesses, or go on to college. They manage not to become infected by popular culture. They look to you as the example and they work hard and study hard. After a few years they find some nice homes on Marvin's Gardens to purchase. You could help them with the down payments because you've made so much money in your successful restaurant you now own the building, as well as two more restaurants on Virginia Avenue and St. James Place. Your new residence is now on the 14th floor of a new condo building on Ventnor Avenue a couple of miles from the kids. And as you watch the grandchildren play on the balcony looking out over the pool you think to yourself, "I must be doing this "racist victim" thing all wrong."