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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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Poll: Asian Life in the Los Angeles Area
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Poll: Asian Life in the New York City Area
Poll: Asian Life in the Houston Area
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WHAT YOU SAY
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Wednesday, Jan 22, 2025, 04:38:53 AM)
I visited San Diego last year and found it to be a mixed bag, but overall a fairly nice city.
The main difference I noticed about San Diego's Asian American Community versus that of other cities was that they are integrated into the mainstream of the city as opposed to segregated into enclaves where Asians were predominate. The Asian American community is also more American-acculterated in San Diego than in other major cities in the US, including Houston.
My wife (who's Asian American) LOVED the way the shopping malls were setup in San Diego--more open, more outdoors and more colorful. Then again, it doesn't rain torrentially in San Diego like it can at times in Houston.
While Transethnic couples are noticable in Houston, they are even more pervasive in San Diego. In the Katy Mills Mall in the Houston area you might see about 30 WM/AF, 15 BM/WF, 10 LM/WF, 5 BM/LF, 3 AM/WF, and 1 BM/AF couples during the course of a 3 hour shopping spree on a Saturday afternoon. In the Mission Valley Center in San Diego, you'd multiply most of those numbers by 1.5.
One other thing I noticed about San Diego is that people there seem to be very laid back compared to other CA cities. I liked that a lot. If I were to win Lotto Texas, I would probably consider getting a bungalow in the Pacific beach area to hang out at from time to time.
H-Town Dude
Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 08:46:17 (PDT)
San Diego SUCKS! It is a nice place to visit. They do have a large Filipino presence.
You said it
Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 20:43:05 (PDT)
New York is simply the greatest city in the world.
I can think of any city in America or perhaps in the world where an individual doesn't have to assimilate in order to succeed and make $$$.
It's the only city in the world where people of other cultures actually talk to one another.
It is also the only city in the world where people of different cultures eat food from other cultures like it was their own.
In NY, I see Arabs working side by side with Mexicans, both groups are communicating in English, sometimes spouting some Arabic and Spanish with each other making their work day more interesting.
In NY, you have a Japanese restaurant which is next to a Afghan restaurant. The owner of the Afghan restaurant sometimes orders sushi from the Japanese restaurant. Right across from the Japanese restaurant is a Tibetan boutique store which sells clothing and objects from Tibet, the owner of the store sometimes eats in the Afghan restaurant.
In NY, I see many Chinese owned pizza shops. I've also seen several Filipinos and Thais working together in a Bagel Shop.
In NY, I see a Hispanic making and selling delicous egg cakes in Chinatown.
In NY, I was once told by an Egyptian that Egg Rolls aren't authentic Chinese as I was ordering a middle eastern delight from his eatery.
In NY, a brisk wall can turn you into a millionaire.
In NY, White people aren't suspicious like White Californians. They can't afford to put a grudge on non-Whites because without them, NY wouldn't be this exciting and dynamic city in the 1st place.
Big Mighty Apple
Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 19:56:44 (PDT)
There are just like "10" tapioca pearl tea houses located in one area of San Diego called "Convoy"........funny how San Diego "come see it" literature never mentions it. Houston guide literature of different stripes do mention its Chinatowns.
In Houston, there are MULTIPLE REGIONS of Asian diaspora in its sprawl where you can find a plethora of tapioca tea houses.......FIRST COLONY area along Highway 6 and Kirkwood (where the affluent Asians are), NEW CHINATOWN along Bellaire, LITTLE SAIGON downtown, LITTLE SAIGON in Alief, the heavy gaggle of Vietnamese and Chinese eateries along Veterans Memorial in NW Houston (the area's newest region of multicultural diaspora), Little Korea along Long Point has its own esoteric bubble tea/internet cafe hangouts.........San Diego cannot match that. Even the excellent Lollicup Tea of Los Angeles has recently tried to fight for its share of Houston's big market!
Thus there is no physical evidence that San Diego has a more diverse Asian population than Houston.
And Houston's got Little El Salvador, Little Pakistan, Little Persia, Little Nigeria kind of commercial zones............San Diego can match that? Um, not that I've seen. Lebanese and Middle Eastern food out the beaucoup in H-town. Even in the mainstream strip centers of H-town. How cool is that when you need a nice Halal deli sandwich for convenience?
My last trip to Houston two weeks ago, I found TWO MORE new tapioca tea houses, or ones that I didn't know of previously. Houston is like Los Angeles in a way. Full of surprises in the sprawl.
I do thank you for mentioning Convoy, though, I will go there for some tapioca tea so I don't always have to drive up to Monterey Park or Alhambra for the good stuff.
There is no synergy between boulevards and entertainment districts in San Diego like there is in Houston or Los Angeles' Hollywood miniverse. Downtown to Montrose to the Richmond Strip to the Rice Village........lively gamut of cars and big city lights on party nights in H-town, a cross current of action. San Diego? It's just darkness of freeways or dark neighborhood roads that connects the different SD entertainment sectors that seem to have nothing to do with one another in a geographic sense (though they certainly do in a thematic sense).
Coronado, Pacific Beach, La Jolla, etc........all the same theme, all the same plastic jazz. You go see Galveston and you'll see what CHARACTER and TRUE ECLECTISM is all about in a beach town (SoHo meets New Orleans meets Venice Beach in a semi-industrial chic setting). Not the prettiest beach but the unique flavor of Galveston's shopping streets and Sea Wall and urban proximity to Houston BLOWS CHUNKS all over the cookie cutter pretty beach places of San Diego.
I go to Coronado in San Diego, I am delighted, but I go to Galveston near Houston and I get EXCITED. Big difference there.
Yes, San Diego does have an excellent downtown nightlife. I think Horton is the BEST and most interesting mall I've seen in all of Southern California. The scale of downtown San Diego is quite better than Houston's or Los Angeles'.........but Houston's supurb downtown nightlife, awesome skyscrapers and cultural buildings give it a climate far more similar to that of Chicago or SF, whereas the GasLamp area is really just Santa Monica or Old Pasadena on steroids. San Diego lacking true skyscrapers does have a nice central package of al fresco but little of the true urban jitters of nocturnal downtown Houston. And I notice true Asian-oriented and Latino-oriented upscale nightclubs in downtown Houston. GasLamp seems too frat-ish or touristy in comparison.
Los Angeles still needs work on its downtown nightlife but it is a cool, genuine urban area to hang out on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon (before dark). I do enjoy downtown LA that way.
But Los Angeles is the place where I have gone to get myself a bit of that Houston vibe. Los Angeles is ground zero for America's diversity (better than New York, for sure), but I think Houston's synergy or mixture of the diversity it has is somewhat better than LA's.
Having lived in Chicago, I don't quite care for snow and even miss Houston's pleasant summer evenings already. We do hope to go back to H-town after working here.
(Houston will open its new NFL team while San Diego might lose the Chargers to Los Angeles.)
Considering Houston's been one of the leading growth centers of America the past few decades.......I would not consider being there as being "stuck."
The low cost of living plus the high scale quality and diversity..........you really cannot beat Houston in that regard.
The Truth is correct about San Diego's lack of character. I almost called it Pinellas County, Florida with mountains and more money.
worldlyman worldlyman@mailcity.com
Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 14:13:39 (PDT)
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