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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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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
(Updated
Wednesday, Jan 22, 2025, 04:38:53 AM)
Westside,
To keep it simple, the Asian population went from about 30, okay, maybe 300, persons in Houston to about 300,000 plus in just thirty years. How does that change grab you?
There were only ten Filipinos in Houston in 1969. By 1999, there were about 55,000 plus thousands more by 2002.
No one wants to come to Houston, eh.
There is some bad sticky smog in the San Gabriel Valley in mid November. In Houston, it's cleaner, sharp cool air in the mid 60s during that time. No mountains and basins to trap air in Houston, that's for sure.
I recall a Japanese girl being taped by her brother (or boyfriend) skipping through downtown Houston like she was on a natural X trip. She seemed to be having a good time in H-town. Another Japanese chick said Houston's a cool place. "Big, just like Osaka!"
Your anti-Houston sentiments don't really wash.
Economist Magazine (6/25/01) pointed out that the demographic shift in ethnicities (as in more Asians coming) for Houston IN A 20 YEAR SPAN........is the quickest rate of any US city ever.
No one likes to go live in Houston?
And the new growth spurts have happened.........well after the oil bust!
New Asian malls that rival those in Alhambra or Monterrey Park keep popping up all over the Westside. Seems like Asians, no matter what's said, keep going to Houston.
Santa Monica bores me. It's for plastic people who like superficial appearances (you know, Kodak kiosks and the same dang souvenir shops with NO CHARACTER. Oops. That sound just like Hollywood at Highland too!). I hate places that think they can package fun and ambience for me. Santa Monica is no different than Disney. Really it's not. So plastic and all.
Galveston has different moods. Pretty in a strange way. Keep the dead jellyfish coming (it's not like birds don't become extinct in the LA coastal areas). I like the haunted feel of Broadway, the Victorian mansions that look down, with the cemeteries close by.....yet with the comfort that The Strand with its shops and eclectic galleries is just next door.
PUH-lease. Downtown Houston overall, as a central party district, BLOWS THE SMACK out of Koreatown Los Angeles. The sense of urban space, with skyscrapers, the big Bayou Place, the Jones Plaza, the odd encampment of the bayou walk, the mixture of clubs and bars, the New Yorkish/Chicago style centralized vibrancy...........this sort of general nocturnal ambience is not to be found in LA..........unless you count the Gentrified Tijuana style vibe, if that, of the Hollywood areas.
Keep your overpriced Korean Pick Up Bars. Koreatown has some cool tea places though. I like some of the tofu houses on mid-Wilshire but..........it ain't the same kind of excitement as downtown H-town.
Los Angeles is a cool place but it does not own patents on what kind of fun districts that are out there in this big nation of ours.
You just can't seem to accept the fact that there ARE Asians, like me, who love H-town.
andrewjam
Monday, June 03, 2002 at 02:10:34 (PDT)
To, westside;
TRUST ME, even the vietnamese don't want to be in Houston. It's just that the family is there, the viet gangs are a disgrace. "YO, YO, YO Viet Pride Bitch" they say. I say sure. But where? Insulting your own people by heightening the crime rate doesn't really make you look too good. Most of the viet gangs aren't even accepted in their own communities, just because they're poor they have to go towards that road.
You think anyone with an true oppurtunity would join a gang? NO, not unless your really weird. But hey i don't give much, as i know the conditions will change, i remember the days when the Chinese were big gangsters (still around and even bigger then the viet ones, but hey bash the minority, it's ok, everyone does it, right). It was when they were poor. Eventually all this viet gang thing will blow over, the vietnamese have the second highest number of lawyers from the asian descent. A dramatically growing number in universities, also hold a strong standing in the medical field. They'll grow out of this poor stage, like the chinese did. Even when the koreans came they had some money, the vietnamese had what? Sure they can open up a grocery shop by selling the clothes on their backs.
OC is a nice area to live, with a HUGE viet population, but the crime rate is much different then Houston. It's the economics, not the ethnic. If you want to see then think of the chinese in the early years, and the chinese tong. Hey think just because our gangs are more developed today (we wear suites) doesn't make us chinese any better. Sure wearing a suite really changes everything.
Hey just a point.
Open-Minded Cantonese
Sunday, June 02, 2002 at 21:42:48 (PDT)
It's funny how someone calling himself "Cuz" (Crip), is complaining about gangs.
piru
Sunday, June 02, 2002 at 11:28:19 (PDT)
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