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Not really. LA has 2.1 Million and the Bay Area has 1.6 Million.
If you're pulling CSA data, then yea, it makes sense. I would say that if you're pulling CSA data for the Bay Area though, the Asian American community between the LA metro, San Diego and Las Vegas is fairly coherent since there's a lot of connection between the three. I guess it sounds like a hard argument to make until you go on one of the many buses filled with Chinese people whose sole purpose is to shuttle people between LA and Vegas (and San Diego and Vegas).
It's a bit of a stretch, yes, but not too big of one. It does still stand that LA has the bigger community though even if it's just half a million which is still sizable.
EDIT: I think the topic is a bit malformed. Both are large enough to be hubs as is New York's Asian American community. However, LA's is the bigger hub these days both in and of itself and the satellite communities it's sprouted in the Inland Empire, San Diego, and Las Vegas.
If you're pulling CSA data, then yea, it makes sense. I would say that if you're pulling CSA data for the Bay Area though, the Asian American community between the LA metro, San Diego and Las Vegas is fairly coherent since there's a lot of connection between the three. I guess it sounds like a hard argument to make until you go on one of the many buses filled with Chinese people whose sole purpose is to shuttle people between LA and Vegas (and San Diego and Vegas).
It's a bit of a stretch, yes, but not too big of one. It does still stand that LA has the bigger community though even if it's just half a million which is still sizable.
EDIT: I think the topic is a bit malformed. Both are large enough to be hubs as is New York's Asian American community. However, LA's is the bigger hub these days both in and of itself and the satellite communities it's sprouted in the Inland Empire, San Diego, and Las Vegas.
We're not talking about the hub, we're talking about the cultural hub, which is a different question. In terms of population then yeah, LA has more Asians than the Bay. Nobody disputed that.
EDIT: I think the topic is a bit malformed. Both are large enough to be hubs as is New York's Asian American community. However, LA's is the bigger hub these days both in and of itself and the satellite communities it's sprouted in the Inland Empire, San Diego, and Las Vegas.
Actually, the diaspora of Asians away from the traditional centers of SF and LA favors Northern California far more than Southern California.
In fact, the Asian proportion in NorCal is so great that it pulls the entire state up to 12%, whereas SoCal as a whole is actually below that.
Its obvious many people are not aware of Asians long history and prominent place not only in the Bay Area, but also the Central Valley.
If the argument is where Asian culture is more ingrained, it would definitely be the Bay Area, if for no other reason than both San Francisco and Oakland have Chinese-American mayors, and there is a Vietnamese vice-mayor in San Jose.
I agree, the asian influence started more so in Northern California, lots of asians worked on the railroads. There are chinatowns in the valley cities and some towns like Locke, Ca.
Asian Owned Businesses as a percentge of all Businesses, 2007 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara 28.0%
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 19.7% Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana 17.9%
New York-Northern NJ-Long Island 11.8%
Sacramento-Arden Arcade-Roseville 11.5%
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 10.4%
San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos 10.1%
Las Vegas-Paradise 9.8%
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue 9.8%
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario 9.7%
Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown 9.4%
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta 6.5%
Dallas-Ft Worth-Arlington 6.4%
Baltimore-Towson 6.2%
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet 6.2%
Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton 5.4%
Orlando-Kissimmee 5.1%
Boston-Cambridge-Quincy 5.0%
I think the Bay Area and L.A. area are very even from a "hub" perspective.
Asian Consulates in both SF and LA:
China
Republic of China/Taiwan (Economic & Cultural Office)
Indonesia
Israel
Japan
Philippines
South Korea
Asian Consulates in L.A. but not in S.F.
Afghanistan
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Iraq
Kuwait
Lebanon
Malaysia
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Asian Consulates in SF but not in L.A.
India
Singapore
Vietnam
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