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ASIAN AMERICAN DEMOGRAPHICS
ASIAN AMERICAN DEMOGRAPHICS
Parsing Asian America
An insider looks at the baffling differences and uncanny similarities among five key Asian American groups.
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Boston: AA Intellectual Mecca?
D.C. Area: Home of AA Conservatism?
San Jose: The AA Heartland?
Orange County: Realization of the AA Dream?
Chicago: Most-Underrated AA City?
Seattle: Most AA-Friendly City?
Poll: Asian Life in the Los Angeles Area
Poll: Asian Life in the San Francisco Bay Area
Poll: Asian Life in the New York City Area
Poll: Asian Life in the Houston Area
50% of Young Asian Americans Earn Bachelors Degree
Nguyen, Kim Top AA Surnames
Asian Households Most Married
Asian Immigration Declines
Asians Top Household Incomes
Where the Asians Aren't
Top 10 Asian-Populated States
Top 15 Asian Population Centers
Asian California 2000
Asians are becoming the Golden State's new establishment.
Asian Dixie
Wide open opportunities draw Asians to help build the New South.
Staying Single
Career ambitions keep Asian professionals waiting into their late 30s.
Asian Paris
Asians enjoy a different reception in Paris.
Asian Canada
Asian immigrant energy is turning a green and promising land into the next California.
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WHAT YOU SAY
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Wednesday, Jan 22, 2025, 04:38:53 AM)
I gotta agree Beijing Angelique. I'm from Ohio and Asians in the midwest are just generally more down to earth and not as superficial.
Miami U Baby!
Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 10:34:48 (PDT)
San Diego is a viciously old colonial style place to me.
The huge Latino population seems "cornered" here. It's not like El Paso and San Antonio, two flavorful towns I've seen many times, where Mexican culture is allowed to seep into the very fabric of those cities.
The San Diego Police can actually take the resources to use 15 squad cars and 20 cops IN ONE ROAD to set up road blocks simply to check people's auto validity in Imperial Beach (along Palm and Beyer Way), a predominantly working class Latino area. I notice improptu sobriety checkpoints too.
If this isn't inherently fascist, I don't know what is.
Far more police intrusion in San Diego than in Houston. Except when they announced it on New Year's Day or July 4..........I've never seen Houston Police set up those kinds of roadblocks in my 15 years of living in Houston. (Thank you ex-mayor Kathy Whitmire and ex-police chief cum mayor Lee Brown for setting Houston Police in a more racially tolerant direction over the years compared to its vicious past.)
And I suspect the San Diego Police or their northern county counterparts do not randomly set up checkpoints or sobriety checks in affluent North County (as if rich white people up there do not drive drunk nor do not keep their vehicles non-compliant).
Rich white people in San Diego are well geographically cordoned-off from the poor Mexicans. At least in Houston, you see not-so-rich Latinos, African-Americans and Asians flocking to Lamar High in the heart of River Oaks, which is Houston's Beverly Hills. At least you see poor people of color being allowed to catch buses at METRO stops in River Oaks.
La Jolla? I don't think so.
Houston is far more egalitarian and well-mixed than this colonial paradise called San Diego will ever be.
worldlyman
Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 06:12:16 (PDT)
Here I am living in beautiful San Diego.........for many months so far..........and we hear how Southern California is so "diverse."
So WHERE are the plethora of Halal markets, Nigerian grocers, Korean and Vietnamese restaurants and Pakistani delis here in San Diego like what Houston's got?
San Diego's mix seems to be just Mexican and Filipino. There are lots of Filipino businesses here.
But there are more Filipino businesses in Houston than there are Vietnamese and Korean businesses in San Diego, to be sure.
Houston has Chinatowns, Little Saigons and a Little Korea. San Diego, as far as I can see, does NOT.
San Diego has a much bigger Manilatown than Houston, though, but at least Houston does have a Little Manila that's growing.
I was back in my H-town a few weeks go for do some stuff, and there are Malaysian, Cuban, Peruvian and all those types of eateries about to open.
Here in San Diego it's just Filipino as far as non-Mexican ethnic eateries are concerned.
San Diego has an eclectic area called Hillcrest or Uptown but those diners are slightly trendy and Disnified to accommodate affluent yuppie tastes.
Living in San Diego affords great weather and scenery............but when I need a great selection of Vietnamese pho or subcontinental Asian biryani (Pakistani style rice) or Taiwanese pearl tea or El Salvadoran pupusas............where the heck is it in this part of Southern California?
Man, I miss Houston.
worldlyman
Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 05:54:37 (PDT)
Any Asians living in the Midwest or Tornado Alley?
Hi...
I live in the Mid-West. Indiana. My High School has 3 Chinese, 1 Korean, 1 Filipino and 2 Indians.
Actually...racism towards Asians is not that bad here at all. I've been to Ohio a couple of times. Indiana and Ohio feels a lot a like. My town is near an University...which is why people tend to be less conservative. I have found Asians in the Mid-West to be generally well educated (A lot of F.O.Bs here to study)
ALthough we do not have many Asians here in IN...I definitely relate more to IN..Midwest Asians more than I do to China Town Asians.
Beijing Angelique in Mid-West
Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 23:09:05 (PDT)
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