Demographics and changes in the outer East Bay (Oakland, Fremont: buy, school)

[SFBayBoomer]

Originally Posted by Dave Coe

Back to the original topic. The newer parts of of San Ramon, Dublin, and Pleasanton are more Asian while the older parts are whiter. Some Chinese have superstitions about older homes such as if a person may of died there, or if the house is in the shadow of trees ect.

I have heard of the superstition that Chinese have against someone dying in a home, and wonder whether that means that if one's parents have a house that the heirs scuttle them off to another place to die, likely going against the wishes of most of us who would prefer to die in our homes.

I have never hear of a problem with tree shadows, though. Is it something to do with feng shui? (about which I know very little.)

[silverkris]

Originally Posted by crouching_tiger

I am afraid how the homogenous and insular Chinese culture will negatively affect the vibrant and free spirited culture of the Bay Area.

As a 2nd generation Chinese American, I find that to be not accurate at all. We contribute to the vibrancy like any other community would.

You can call any culture to be "homogenous and insular" if you want from any point of view, depending on how you frame it.

[Bonez765]

Originally Posted by crouching_tiger

I am afraid how the homogenous and insular Chinese culture will negatively affect the vibrant and free spirited culture of the Bay Area.

I will not blame solely on Chinese-Americans. As much as I agree that Chinese people overall for me tend to be very insular and closed off, they aren't big enough to influence the Bay Area to the way you are saying they can. You can blame the success of Silicon Valley and the policies that have been implemented in the Bay during the 1970s that have done more to sweep away the "free-spirited" culture of the Bay.

[Dave Coe]

Originally Posted by Dave Coe

Concord:
White alone - 56,536 (45.3%)
Hispanic - 37,916 (30.4%)
Asian alone - 16,160 (13.0%)
Black alone - 7,739 (6.2%)
Two or more races - 4,556 (3.7%)
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone - 1,393 (1.1%)
American Indian alone - 275 (0.2%)
Other race alone - 142 (0.1%)


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Pleasant Hill:

White alone - 22,760 (66.7%)
Hispanic - 4,935 (14.5%)
Asian alone - 4,085 (12.0%)
Two or more races - 1,812 (5.3%)
Black alone - 312 (0.9%)
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone - 48 (0.1%)
American Indian alone - 16 (0.05%)
Other race alone - 11 (0.03%)


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Walnut Creek:
White alone - 47,335 (73.4%)
Asian alone - 7,739 (12.0%)
Hispanic - 6,438 (10.0%)
Two or more races - 1,518 (2.4%)
Black alone - 1,116 (1.7%)
American Indian alone - 163 (0.3%)
Other race alone - 182 (0.3%)
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone - 24 (0.04%)


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Lafayette:
White alone - 19,284 (78.1%)
Asian alone - 1,900 (7.7%)
Hispanic - 1,774 (7.2%)
Two or more races - 1,231 (5.0%)
Black alone - 185 (0.7%)
Other race alone - 36 (0.1%)


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Moraga:
White alone - 12,760 (78.3%)
Asian alone - 2,010 (12.3%)
Hispanic - 775 (4.8%)
Two or more races - 519 (3.2%)
Black alone - 161 (1.0%)
Other race alone - 41 (0.3%)
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone - 14 (0.09%)
American Indian alone - 10 (0.06%)


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Orinda:
White alone - 13,531 (73.8%)
Asian alone - 2,130 (11.6%)
Hispanic - 1,101 (6.0%)
Two or more races - 963 (5.3%)
Black alone - 293 (1.6%)
American Indian alone - 52 (0.3%)
Other race alone - 55 (0.3%)


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Alamo:
White alone - 12,960 (81.5%)
Asian alone - 1,215 (7.6%)
Hispanic - 914 (5.7%)
Two or more races - 489 (3.1%)
Black alone - 93 (0.6%)
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone - 25 (0.2%)
American Indian alone - 7 (0.04%)


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Danville:
White alone - 32,530 (75.0%)
Asian alone - 5,372 (12.4%)
Hispanic - 2,604 (6.0%)
Two or more races - 1,982 (4.6%)
Black alone - 401 (0.9%)
American Indian alone - 41 (0.09%)
Other race alone - 32 (0.07%)


Read more: //www.city-data.com/city/Danvil...#ixzz3Wrd97wrb



San Ramon:
White alone - 33,534 (47.1%)
Asian alone - 26,267 (36.9%)
Hispanic - 6,014 (8.4%)
Two or more races - 2,890 (4.1%)
Black alone - 1,729 (2.4%)
Other race alone - 345 (0.5%)
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone - 273 (0.4%)
American Indian alone - 161 (0.2%)


Read more: //www.city-data.com/city/San-Ra...#ixzz3WrdU9LIE



Dublin:
White alone - 22,459 (47.8%)
Asian alone - 12,263 (26.1%)
Hispanic - 6,798 (14.5%)
Black alone - 2,882 (6.1%)
Two or more races - 1,830 (3.9%)
American Indian alone - 333 (0.7%)
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone - 127 (0.3%)
Other race alone - 154 (0.3%)


Read more: //www.city-data.com/city/Dublin...#ixzz3WrdsCGIM



Pleasonton:
White alone - 41,285 (58.7%)
Asian alone - 16,650 (23.7%)
Hispanic - 8,116 (11.5%)
Two or more races - 2,281 (3.2%)
Black alone - 1,417 (2.0%)
Other race alone - 351 (0.5%)
American Indian alone - 171 (0.2%)
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone - 58 (0.08%)


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Livermore:
White alone - 53,204 (63.7%)
Hispanic - 18,375 (22.0%)
Asian alone - 5,840 (7.0%)
Two or more races - 2,839 (3.4%)
Black alone - 2,328 (2.8%)
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone - 695 (0.8%)
American Indian alone - 260 (0.3%)
Other race alone - 96 (0.1%)


Read more: //www.city-data.com/city/Liverm...#ixzz3WreV36Vm

How much have these statistics changed?

[SFBayBoomer]

Originally Posted by silverkris

As a 2nd generation Chinese American, I find that to be not accurate at all. We contribute to the vibrancy like any other community would.

You can call any culture to be "homogenous and insular" if you want from any point of view, depending on how you frame it.

Are you free to and encouraged by your family and friends to data outside of your Chinese community/race?

[Dave Coe]

Originally Posted by NewbiePoster

What if they set up a new center around Livermore? Then that whole area of Dublin, Livermore, Pleasant Hill, even Tracy, could serve it. And it would be somewhat out of the way of the main traffic patterns. The problem with the idea of expanding inland, eastward, is that the younger demographic they're attracting generally prefers to live in SF or Bayside, somewhere. Still, a job's a job, right? A career's a career. If there was an influx of Google workers in those towns, businesses would sprout up to cater to them. Who knows, Dublin or Livermore might become happening places. lol

It would cause more sprawl in those regions.

[silverkris]

Originally Posted by SFBayBoomer

Are you free to and encouraged by your family and friends to data outside of your Chinese community/race?

My brother, sister and most of my cousins have out married. My spouse is Chinese but that's because I met her in Asia when I was working there.

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