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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.
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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?
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Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:56:54 PM)
"TSJ, When you respond, try not to harp on my personal status since it is irrelevant, gets you nowhere and takes up space."
NO, it is just a way of proving you are not what you say you are. So you are not even 100% Japanese, yet you talk about how patriotic Japanese Americans are. Why not bring up your Hawaiian heritage? Are Hawaiians the most patriotic as well? I only attack your status because much of your posting seems to revolve around it.
And who are you to say what takes up space? Ed pays for the bandwidth, so if he finds it fit to print, it will be posted.
"Taiwanese? Chinese? Both claim that they are the real China. It is it not a fact that both are of the same race anyway? What is your point?"
HK people will NEVER say they are part of China, even though, technically, they are.
"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."
I am not German, nor Italian. Though those were indeed horrible acts, they have little relevance to me.
"Please tell me why is I or any other Japanese American for that matter has to be even consider what Imperial Japan did to the Chinese or Koreans during the war?"
Since you obviously don't make the distinction between Chinese in Asia and Chinese Americans (talking funny in Chinatown, and assuming they don't know English), why should we make the distinction for Japanese and Japanese Americans?
TSJ
Eric@KristinKreuk.net
Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 16:41:40 (PDT)
AC dropout,
Please tell me why is I or any other Japanese American for that matter has to be even consider what Imperial Japan did to the Chinese or Koreans during the war?
The US government made that very same mistake and has apologized and paid reparations.
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.
However, in case your mentioning of the atrocities of Imperial Japan in an Asian American webpage such as this one that has a large Japanese American audience was not being directed at us, the then I profusely apologize. (yet, wonder why it is even relevant in this site anyway.)
San Diegan
Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 11:47:07 (PDT)
Tsk Tsk. TSJ needs to harp on my personal status because he is losing the argument.
I am both Hawaiian and Japanese. In case you did not know, Both Hawaiians and Samoans are Polynesian. So if I'm mistaken for a Samoan, that is valid, right?
San Gabriel, San Diego, what does it matter where I live? I am allowed to comment on anything anywhere on this board. (By the way, show me where I said I lived in San Gabriel)
Of course even Chinese spilled their blood for America. Where did I say only Japanese Americans have done so?
No one said you blamed Nanking on Japanese Americans. That was just a warning because you seem to stray out of the subject.
Taiwanese? Chinese? Both claim that they are the real China. It is it not a fact that both are of the same race anyway? What is your point?
TSJ, When you respond, try not to harp on my personal status since it is irrelevant, gets you nowhere and takes up space.
Kanaka sansei
Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 11:28:43 (PDT)
San Diegan,
Let me cross the proverbial line in the Sand.
The Chinese in Asia despise the Japanese in Asia, becuase of the Manchurian incident, which the Japanese deliberate blew up some train tracks in Manchurian and blame it on the Chinese. Then they invaded the China, did human testing on Chinese civilian, and by the time they got to Nanking had Chinese comfort women to relieve their stress of killing Chinese men.
60 years in a 5000 year old history is just yestarday. Why do you think the PRC deliberately went into the Japanese consulate building to drag out the North Korean asylum seekers. They realise it was a great way to insult the Japanese government.
AC Dropout
Monday, July 29, 2002 at 15:12:48 (PDT)
"PS, Blame Nanking upon them and you are just as prejudiced as the US government was when they put them into those internment camps. Furthermore. blaming Nanking on Japanese Americans subjects you and all Chinese Americans to being blamed for Wen Ho Lee, Taiwanese-born US citizen spying for the Chinese, the Tienanmin Square Massacre, and the execution of followers of followers of Falum Gong.
So don't go there. (This warning is for you too, penelope)
San Diegan (aka Kanaka sansei)"
Hahaha... so, it's you! San Diegan, huh? So much for you living in San Gabriel. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a minute. First, you say you are Hawaiian (and people in your class (class? at mid 40's?) confused you for Samoan), then you said you are third gen Japanese American, and then you said Japanese/Hawaiian. So, what is it, man?!
Tiananmen Square? That's Beijing. I'm Cantonese/HK. That's like a world away. HK people do not associate themselves with northern China. Taiwanese spying for China? Taiwan is a totally separate country. I never blamed Nanking on Japanese Americans. I just used that as a basis for why Chinese hate Japanese.
"So while these people spilled their blood to secure your rights, you have the gall to despise that very blood that was spilled."
EVERY race has spilt their blood for American freedoms... even CHINESE. You make it sound as if Japanese were the only ones who fought. I guess you are one of those bitter old war vets who feels unappreciated.
TSJ
Eric@KristinKreuk.net
Sunday, July 28, 2002 at 21:38:44 (PDT)
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