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View Poll Results: What is the hub for Asian culture in the US: Tri-State Area, SoCal or the Bay Area?
Tri-State Area 31 22.63%
SoCal 42 30.66%
Bay Area 64 46.72%
Voters: 137. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 07-16-2012, 05:44 PM
 
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I find it interesting that when China hosted the Olympics in 2008 San Francisco was the ONLY city in the entire US to host the Torch run. They could of picked New York...but no they picked San Francisco.
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Old 07-17-2012, 07:25 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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I find it interesting that when China hosted the Olympics in 2008 San Francisco was the ONLY city in the entire US to host the Torch run. They could of picked New York...but no they picked San Francisco.
SF was the only city in North America chosen by China to be part of the 2008 Olympic torch relay.
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Old 07-17-2012, 08:04 AM
 
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I find it interesting that when China hosted the Olympics in 2008 San Francisco was the ONLY city in the entire US to host the Torch run. They could of picked New York...but no they picked San Francisco.
Probably because it is the largest city that adheres to China's strict communist ethos. I think SF even has phone numbers where you can tip off the authorities and secret police when your neighbor puts the wrong things in the trash can.
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Old 07-17-2012, 09:21 AM
 
Location: Metro Phoenix
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Probably because it is the largest city that adheres to China's strict communist ethos. I think SF even has phone numbers where you can tip off the authorities and secret police when your neighbor puts the wrong things in the trash can.
Couldn't just be because of San Francisco's lengthy history as a hub with ethnic Chinese or anything like that... nah... has to be something relating to communism. Call Rush Limbaugh!! We got another knee-slapper!! *yawn*
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Old 07-17-2012, 10:21 AM
 
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Probably because it is the largest city that adheres to China's strict communist ethos. I think SF even has phone numbers where you can tip off the authorities and secret police when your neighbor puts the wrong things in the trash can.
By that rationale when the Olympics are held in Rio De Janeiro, the torch should stop in Chicago, considering the violence on the South Side is pretty close to the favelas outside of Rio.

Plus, Chicago politics are as corrupt as Brazil used to be.
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Old 07-17-2012, 10:25 AM
 
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Couldn't just be because of San Francisco's lengthy history as a hub with ethnic Chinese or anything like that... nah... has to be something relating to communism. Call Rush Limbaugh!! We got another knee-slapper!! *yawn*

It was a joke, I'm pretty liberal. Calm down and post some more pictures of your honda.
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Old 07-17-2012, 10:51 AM
 
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I'd want to see what an Asian from NYC thinks.

Do you see "SF" or "LA" as some sort of Asian hub over NYC and the Tri-State area?
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Old 07-17-2012, 10:56 AM
 
Location: Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA
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I'd want to see what an Asian from NYC thinks.
I'm Chinese, born in Albany, New York and partially raised there. Only two states I have ever lived in are California and New York.

So do I "qualify"?
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Do you see "SF" or "LA" as some sort of Asian hub over NYC and the Tri-State area?
It's complicated.
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Old 07-17-2012, 10:58 AM
 
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I'm Chinese, born in Albany, New York and partially raised there. Only two states I have ever lived in are California and New York.

So do I "qualify"?
Yes, enlighten us with your thoughts.

Given that you were born in Albany, your parents obviously chose NY and the East Coast over the West Coast.

How does the East Asian community out in the East Coast view its West Coast counterparts?
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Old 07-17-2012, 11:00 AM
 
Location: Metro Phoenix
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It was a joke, I'm pretty liberal. Calm down and post some more pictures of your honda.
Here's a picture of an Asian girl in the passenger's seat, like so many before and after her, before I had the interior redone in red leather. We were in her hometown of Pacifica, out in front of the Taco Bell there. It's just about the coolest Taco Bell on earth, right there on the beach... but yeah, Pacifica is a smaller town just south of SF on the coast. Very picturesque. The two girls I know from there are Japanese-American (pictured), and Korean-American.



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I'd want to see what an Asian from NYC thinks.

Do you see "SF" or "LA" as some sort of Asian hub over NYC and the Tri-State area?
FWIW, I remember in other threads, we had people from Asia itself saying it was LA or SF, alternately.
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