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There was talk of China financing LA's mass transit system when Congress was stalling on the transpo bill. Now that it has passed it's probably less likely. I believe many of the highrises in Koreatown are owned by Asian interests.
Anyhow, it's all California and it is thought of as one entity in some ways whereas it seems to me the East Coast or just the Northeast alone is far more fragmented.
We've encountered this issue multiple times on this Board. It's fine to see things this way in a "California vs. Texas" thread, but not in a "SF vs. Atlanta" thread. While people in California may think of themselves as one entity, the relationship between Sacramento and San Francisco is not the same as the relationship between the Bronx and Queens.
We've encountered this issue multiple times on this Board. It's fine to see things this way in a "California vs. Texas" thread, but not in a "SF vs. Atlanta" thread. While people in California may think of themselves as one entity, the relationship between Sacramento and San Francisco is not the same as the relationship between the Bronx and Queens.
There was talk of China financing LA's mass transit system when Congress was stalling on the transpo bill. Now that it has passed it's probably less likely. I believe many of the highrises in Koreatown are owned by Asian interests.
You heard right. Developers from China have been working on financing many hotel, multifamily, and retail developments in California.
Now more than ever the US is letting foreign investors build our infrastructure for us. There are talks about China helping us build our HSR here in California and the only other state that has that type of foreign interest in HSR is Texas which is talking with Japan about financing their bullet trains.
We've encountered this issue multiple times on this Board. It's fine to see things this way in a "California vs. Texas" thread, but not in a "SF vs. Atlanta" thread. While people in California may think of themselves as one entity, the relationship between Sacramento and San Francisco is not the same as the relationship between the Bronx and Queens.
I agree completely. It's not nearly as strong a relationship, but it does count for something. Again, it's hard to quantify.
Doesn't matter anymore, its 2012 and the entire country is becoming more diverse. Asians are the largest immigration group into the US now for the first time surpassing Latinos and they aren't just settling in California but the other 49 as well, especially the states with already established immigration gateways like New York, Florida, Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Georgia, or North Carolina.
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Originally Posted by OyCrumbler
However, the probably biggest change in the landscape isn't that the three are large hubs--the big change is that there are a lot of other smaller hubs growing nearly everywhere these days.
Wholeheartedly agree with both of you guys.
There are already 15 million Asian-Americans alone and 17 million Americans who are of at least partial Asian ancestry. This isn't even counting the 3 million Central and Western Asians, who are counted as White on the US census.
That is 20 million+ Americans who have some sort of either recent or far connection to the continent of Asia through their ancestry. To assume that there is any one Asian hub is just playing homerism. If 25-30% of Asian Americans lived around a metro area, then we can start talking about a singular hub, but nowadays, Asians can be found all over the United States in both extreme urban settings to rural settings.
Sure, there may be a larger history of that in California, but nowadays, it isn't a solely California phenomenon in the least.
That's why talking about demographics in the American context is getting sort of boring nowadays: everyone is everywhere. There may be more concentration of one thing in an area over another, but that doesn't change the fact that ethnic communities are still spread around the United States. At the end of the day, we're all just people anyways. It's not exactly an earth shattering conclusion to come to.
Yeah, I just do not understand the purpose of the original question. Is there some Asian-American longing for a particular metro where their ethnicity feels more valid? Weird to speak for anyone's hometown over another, on behalf of entire races no less. Recent numbers tell a compelling story on one hand. A deep history and diaspora tell a compelling story on the other hand.
Who cares though? And why? What's anyone's stake in this?
I voted for the Tri-State Area---of Cincinnati, Ohio/Indiana/Ketucky.
Columbus, OH seems to have quite a few Asians, including my step-uncles.
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