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It’s pretty silly. Neighborhoods change all the time. If that one block or a few blocks is straight up Ethiopian businesses then there should be no shame in it being called Little Ethiopia
116th is considered little French Africa in Harlem. Wonder if that same issue will occur if they ever want an actual designation!
Why should it be recognized as an Ethiopian neighborhood but not an African American one when African Americans have been there longer?
Why should it be recognized as an Ethiopian neighborhood but not an African American one when African Americans have been there longer?
Little Ethiopia in LA is also not located in an “Ethiopian” community and neither is Little Italy in the Bronx located in an “Italian” comminity.. Little doesn’t have to be the whole area. It can literally be just the specific streets that Ethiopians own.
116th St in Harlem is called Little French African despite Harlem having much more African Americans. Just because one street is called Little Ethiopia doesn’t mean the whole community becomes “Little Ethiopia”.
Those numbers seem so small. I see Ethiopians everywhere, from any restaurant or coffee shop or other businesses. And just generally around. I'm mainly in Moco, DC and PG and I would have guessed there's way more than 25k Ethiopians out of 2.6 million people in those 3 areas. According to Wikipedia, other sources estimate their total to be closer to a quarter million in the whole DMV which makes more sense. I wonder why there's such a difference between census and other estimates.
Those numbers seem so small. I see Ethiopians everywhere, from any restaurant or coffee shop or other businesses. And just generally around. I'm mainly in Moco, DC and PG and I would have guessed there's way more than 25k Ethiopians out of 2.6 million people in those 3 areas. According to Wikipedia, other sources estimate their total to be closer to a quarter million in the whole DMV which makes more sense. I wonder why there's such a difference between census and other estimates.
250K would be about 1 in every 6 Black people in the DMV. That's way too high.
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Those numbers seem so small. I see Ethiopians everywhere, from any restaurant or coffee shop or other businesses. And just generally around. I'm mainly in Moco, DC and PG and I would have guessed there's way more than 25k Ethiopians out of 2.6 million people in those 3 areas. According to Wikipedia, other sources estimate their total to be closer to a quarter million in the whole DMV which makes more sense. I wonder why there's such a difference between census and other estimates.
I agree those totals seem low.
For 2017 alone I believe the area added another 3/4k Ethiopians alone. Hard to believe that the population would not be at least in the hundreds of thousands. The 2020 Census should iron this out.
Little Ethiopia in LA is also not located in an “Ethiopian” community and neither is Little Italy in the Bronx located in an “Italian” comminity.. Little doesn’t have to be the whole area. It can literally be just the specific streets that Ethiopians own.
116th St in Harlem is called Little French African despite Harlem having much more African Americans. Just because one street is called Little Ethiopia doesn’t mean the whole community becomes “Little Ethiopia”.
116 st is not an official designation
Arthur Ave used to have a majority Italian population
I don't know anything about Little Ethiopia in LA but my point still stands. Why not have a Little African America?
I can assure you that in places like Silver Spring, at least 1 in 6 Black people are Ethiopian or Habesha decent. Problably like 1 in 4.
That may be true for Silver Spring. But there are only 20K Black people in SS, so even 1 in 4 of those being of Ethiopian/Eritrean only adds up to about 5,000 people. According to the ACS, Ethiopians make up about 20% of the Black population in SS, and about half of the area's African population.
For 2017 alone I believe the area added another 3/4k Ethiopians alone. Hard to believe that the population would not be at least in the hundreds of thousands. The 2020 Census should iron this out.
No way it's in the hundreds of thousands. That's insane. That would mean that the foreign born estimates for the area are off by some ridiculous margin.
For perspective, there are only 290,120 Black people in Fairfax and MoCo combined. You think half of those are Ethiopian/Eritrean even after accounting for people of Nigerian, Jamaican, Ghanaian, descent? Not to mention all of the "regular" Black people who have their roots in the DC area going back generations or in the South generations beyond that.
Ethiopians make up a large percentage of the Black population in places that do not have large Black populations overall. So yeah, a Black person you see in Tyson's on a Saturday is more likely to be Ethiopian than a Black person you'd see at Largo Town Center, but the reality is that you're not going to see many Black people in NOVA at all (compared to the eastern half of the metro). Ethiopians tend to be concentrated in the places where Black people are more of a rarity, and as such, they stick out a lot more.
the ethiopian community is spread out.......but theyre heavy in silver spring NoVA (alexandria lorton woodbridge springfield) and uptown DC used to have quite a few of them. one thing about ethnic communities esp black immigrant ones is that theyre not concentrared in just one area. they start off in one place then spread out as they get more anchored. its the same w the west africans (nigerians sierra leoneans ghanaians). they have a heavy presence in NoVA maryland (both PG and moco) and uptown DC.
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