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Also I would like to add that I would hope nyc would have more Asians than any other city considering its the largest city with twice as much people as its next most populous city, it would be pitiful if it didn't.
I voted the Bay because I believe it's the place that it is most felt. My first time in SoCal, I was amazed by the number of Asians and Mexicans, because my 90s cinema & TV told me it was all Blacks and Whites. I felt like they were actually the minority.
Yes, NYC/Tri-State has a lot of Asians, epecially Western Asians/Middle Easterns, but it just feels like just another ethnic group in a cornocopia (sp?) of ethnicities. Outside of the enclaves, no single ethnicity stands out.
In the Bay area, I feel, the Asian presence is dominant and felt everywhere, not just in Chinatown.
I must say its very funny to read the posters minimizing the Asian culture in Southern California since it has the largest Asian community in the US.
In the LA/OC area, you have the largest Filipino, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Malay communities in the United States. Evidence of this culture is all around. From Koreatown on Vermont, to Thaitown on Hollywood Blvd, to Little Saigon in Westminster and Garden Grove, its impossible not to notice. There is no particular "Fillipinotown" but in cities like Carson and West Covina, its unmistakable. In Torrance, my schools were all around one third Asian. The only East Asian culture that would be bigger in other cities would be the Chinese in San Fran and NYC.
What the LA area does lack is a more significant South Asian community. There is a little India in Cerritos, but its nothing compared to the communities in San Jose or the Tri-State area. Even where I live now in Texas the Indian community is a lot more visible than it was in LA.
All in all, its hard to top the East Asian diversity in the LA area and I dont think that San Francisco or New York do. New York is tops for South Asian diversity and San Francisco is more balanced than LA between South Asian and East Asian.
China's current Vice President (Xi Jinping) is currently visiting the U.S. Of course, he is visiting Washington, D.C. But he will also stop in California (not New York) before he returns to China. He knows where the hub of Asian/Asian-American culture is in the U.S.
China's current Vice President (Xi Jinping) is currently visiting the U.S. Of course, he is visiting Washington, D.C. But he will also stop in California (not New York) before he returns to China. He knows where the hub of Asian/Asian-American culture is in the U.S.
Good point. And our mayor spend a week there earlier in the year. The Chinese might even help finance our subway since our federal government (cough, house of representatives, cough) can't get anything worthwhile done.
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