Asian population in US

[gem2niki]

ONLY 4.4%?!!! (2006)
That tiny? D: Yikes....I guess being stuck in the Bay Area and only traveling to LA, NY, and Hawaii...I thought there were plenty of Asians all over America.

Now I see the whole "Asian minority" part...lol (even tho I took Asian American studies few years ago :P)

(This came up when my sister questioned why there were mostly Caucasians in the gymnastics representing America...)

Comments

[psychosako.livejournal.com]

in the grand scheme of things, 4.4 is not a small number. California and the DC Metro area, man, they are so not the minority. There's a city up here called Annandale that we fondly call Asiandale. The Thai, Vietnamese, chinese and korean population here are high enough that all asian establishments on the main drags don't bother have signs or menus in english.

I feel like i'm the only japanese in the whole city sometimes though.

[gem2niki.livejournal.com]

The thing is Asians are concentrated in certain areas. Rather than widespread all over the US. In the bay area, I never saw Asians as minority because there a lot of Asians here. So I never got the minority part. But elsewhere, it differs esp in the midwest.

My supervisor was like the only Korean in Kentucky and had a huge culture shock when he moved to Cali XD