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Unread 10-27-2010, 09:15 PM
 
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
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Being an Asian-American (father mainland-Chinese/mom white, had a very Sugar Land Asian upbringing, went to Clements, all that stuff) who lives in a very un-Asian area (Huntsville) served in the military Honorably at Ft. Benning, GA, did 3 tours in Iraq, speaks perfect English, and has predominantly White and European friends, I'm proudly one of the few Asian-Americans that doesn't adhere to the "Asians should stick together" way of thinking.

We (Asian-Americans) need to move away from that and I have no doubt that upcoming generations of AA's will do so. Inter-marriage between Asians & non-Asians and adoption of Asian children by non-Asians will play a role. I should also note that when my dad was an adjunct math instructor at UW-Oshkosh in the early '80's, he met my mom--a white Wisconsin female who grew up on a dairy farm.

My late Chinese grandfather was educated in the UK (this was before the Communists took over), spoke the Queen's English and worked for the British inspecting the mail for signs of espionage in WWII.

With all that said, I actually freakin' love being a lone Asian in a non-Asian area and my Chinese family doesn't believe in that "Asians together" hogwash.



This is 2010, folks. It's time to get out of the ethnic enclaves and deal with other cultures.
You love being the token Asian.
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Unread 10-28-2010, 09:38 PM
 
Location: houston
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My wife's Vietnamese... met her in Houston 16 years ago..we live in Clear Lake..there are many VN around here as well as others..it's a nice area with good schools..wouldn't move to the southwest side of Houston..great VN restaurants but alotta crime
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Unread 12-05-2010, 12:35 AM
 
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STI: ERsys - Houston, TX (Ethnicity)

http://ubahouston.org/files/People%20Group%20Research/Houston-Meet%20Houston%20apr06.pps (broken link) - check the Houston map
Good luck!
Here's the dominant ethnic/ancestry group by census tract for the largest cities and metro areas in the USA. Compare page 18 of the above link (Vietnamese-American alone, number by census tract) with the lower right of page 149 (dominant ethnic groups by census tract, Houston TX, Vietnamese in light blue):
http://www.census.gov/population/www...9_Ancestry.pdf
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