|
|
|
|
|
GOLDSEA |
ASIAMS.NET |
ASIAN AMERICAN ISSUES
San Diego: Asian American Boomtown?
an Diego doesn't have much of an Asian American history. That could be one reason it may have the brightest future of any Asian American city.
Between 1992 and 2002 the area's Asian American population jumped a spectacular 44%. Its current AA population of 360,000 -- the nation's 10th largest -- is only 12% of the 3,000,000 in the San Diego metro area, but the growth trajectory remains strong due to a steady influx of Asians drawn to the area's paradisial climate and growth potential.
AA Boomtown?
|
The area's emerging prominence as the nation's biotech capitol promises to be an growth engine and a powerful magnet for ambitious young Asian Americans. La Jolla, the city's ritziest neighborhood, is home to talent incubators like the Scripps Research Institute, the nation's biggest private research organization. La Jolla is also home to UC San Diego, a top bio engineering power. It doubled its Asian enrollment from 22% of undergraduates in 1991 to 43% in 2002, nearly equal to Whites (44%). The balance is tilting toward Asians. The 2001 freshmen class is 46.5% Asian and 42% White.
The area is also attracting a disproportionate share of other growth industries like software, communications, defense and entertainment, accelerating the escalation of housing prices, not to mention its traffic congestion.
Perhaps because of its blue-sky economic climate and white-collar demographics, San Diego seems to have been hospitable to Asian success. A Corean American architect named C. W. Kim designed several prominent features of its sparkling seaside skyline, including the Emerald Plaza, the Marriott and the First National Bank building.
The city's first Asian success story was Ah Quin, a Chinese immigrant who made a name as a merchant and labor broker during the 1880s when only a few hundred mostly male Chinese made up the city's entire Asian population. Many of those early settlers came to dominate a thriving fishing industry that supplied not only San Diego but Chinese communities on both sides of the Pacific. Today all that remains to commemorate that first small wave of Asian immigrants is the Chinese Museum near Marina Park in the Gaslamp District.
The majority of Asian San Diegans arrived with the wave that began in the late 1960s. Today the city's Asian presence is most visible in the Convoy area located in a triangle formed by the I-805 to the west and Highways 52 and 163 respectively to the north and east. Convoy, Clairemont Mesa Blvd and other streets are lined with Vietnamese, Chinese, Corean, Japanese and Thai eateries, markets, pearl tea shops and business offices. Making up nearly a third of the area's Asians, and its fastest-growing Asian population, Vietnamese have established visible commercial stretches as well in the El Cajon and Mira Mesa districts.
Is San Diego an Asian American boomtown in the making? Or is it destined to become just another L.A. South?
This interactive article is closed to new input.
Discussions posted during the past year remain available for browsing.
CONTACT US
|
ADVERTISING INFO
© 1996-2013 Asian Media Group Inc
No part of the contents of this site may be reproduced without prior written permission.
|
|
|
|
WHAT YOU SAY
[This page is closed to new input. --Ed.]
(Updated
Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:56:53 PM)
"Who is talking "Funny" in Chinatown? I thought f**k L.A. was complaining about San Gabriel, not Chinatown."
"Oh, I'm still waiting for your explanation why it is relevant whether I live in San Diego or San Gabriel when I gave my advise to f*** L.A."
"Chinatown" doesn't have to be an official place. It's just where Chinese people congregate. Yes, San Gabriel is known in many circles as a "Chinatown."
So, tell me this. If you aren't from San Gabriel, and resent that fact that Chinese live there, why the hell do you go there? Just so you can mock their language? If I don't like blacks, I wouldn't go anywhere near Compton or Oakland. If I don't like Mexicans, I sure as hell wouldn't be cruisin' on Whittier Boulevard or Tully and King (San Jose).
You are just like one of those people who picks on every little detail, down to the grammar and spelling. You say I am the one attacking the person, not the issue, but you are the one who says people "need therapy," and "are confused." You say ad hominems are wack. How about picking on every little detail until you annoy the hell out of everybody? You have not made any points the last few posts in either forum. All you are doing is hurling insults.
Hey, I know you will find something stupid to respond back to this, but dude, you really are too old to be taking jabs at people in such a manner. Has anyone come back at you in such a way? And even if they did, like penelope mentioned, they are all HALF YOUR AGE. I can't imagine my father talking to me or anyone like that.
If you don't know who Ed is, you shouldn't be here. Oh yeah, I forgot. Ed is "un-American," so why would you give a rats ass about who he is?
TSJ
Eric@KristinKreuk.net
Friday, August 09, 2002 at 23:04:04 (PDT)
I was planning to move to SD from NYC
to escape the next 911, but couldn't find anything in SD for a IT job.
The rent in SD is just as high as NY, so after a couple of weeks of no
leads and shrinking personal budget, I'd to move back to NYC. I thought
SD is a boom town, and there are plenty of work to go around ... oops,
maybe all the San Jose dot.com folks, aka ".com refugees" moved down to SD
last year and now the job market and traffic is just as bad as the bay
area. *shrug* well, at least they will help to boost the housing market
around SD. maybe i can just be a homeless in SD. lol. since the weather
there is so good and the ppl are so nice compared to new yorkers.
AM
aka_g@hotmail.com
Friday, August 09, 2002 at 19:43:40 (PDT)
San Diegan,
It's obvious you don't know the different areas of LA county.
FYI, San Gabriel is Chinatown. San Gabriel and the surrounding cities such as Monterey Park and Alhambra are referred to as the "New Chinatown." These small cities combined represents the suburban Chinatown of LA county. Have you ever driven through that area before? It's all Chinese businesses there. The original LA Chinatown is known as the Historic Chinatown. So yes, F*** LA was in fact referring to Chinatown. Get your facts straight before you post your responses.
That's why it's relevant where you live. And that explains why you don't know what you're talking about down there in San Diego. Simple as that.
MP boy
Friday, August 09, 2002 at 15:09:03 (PDT)
TSJ,
I SAID:
Assuming that you feel that we are in fact responsible, then get on a German American webpage and remind them that that they are at fault for Nazi atrocities. And while you are at it, get on an Italian American webpage and do likewise for the acts of Mussolini.
YOU RESPONDED:
I am not German, nor Italian. Though those were indeed horrible acts, they have little relevance to me.
RESPONSE TO YOU:
Of course it has little relevance to you. I was talking to AC Dropout, not you.
Try not to let emotion override whatever sense you have left.
San Diegan/Kanaka sansei
Friday, August 09, 2002 at 08:34:04 (PDT)
TSJ,
I reserve my issues on my Hawaiian background on webpages devoted to that issue. This one is for Asian Americans.
Seems like you think that one must be 100% Japanese race to argue the merits on the issue. Why is that?
Ed, whoever that is, allows me my say. What's your point?
Taiwanese? Chinese? I am sure you can tell the difference on appearence only, right? Expecially since they are the very same race.
Who is talking "Funny" in Chinatown? I thought f**k L.A. was complaining about San Gabriel, not Chinatown.
Oh, I'm still waiting for your explanation why it is relevant whether I live in San Diego or San Gabriel when I gave my advise to f*** L.A.
Confused fella aren't ya?
San Diegan
Friday, August 09, 2002 at 08:29:11 (PDT)
In San San Diego, most of the Asians are stuck in the NOrth County and Convoy, far away from the ocean and scenic beauty. Take a wild guess at what thnic group occupies the areas close to the ocean. (HInt: It's not Mexicans or Blacks)
La Jolla
Friday, August 09, 2002 at 06:47:04 (PDT)
NEWEST COMMENTS |
EARLIER COMMENTS
|