Talk:Congolese Americans

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Number of people and religion

According to the Wikipedia page linked to The Democratic Republic of Congo now living in United States about 3455 people from that country. --83.52.58.225 (talk) 17:02, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Population centres

At present, the lede mentions Raleigh, Chi-town and Northern Cali, simply saying “Congolese Americans live” there. The final paragraph states the largest communities are Boston, NYC, and the DC Metro area. It goes on to list almost a dozen more places, none of which is a Northern Californian city. This is confusing if not contradictory, and as such I’ve removed some of that info for the time being. —Wiki Wikardo 17:11, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The article, in general, is based on a lot of speculation. Francis Hannaway 22:13, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Split?

This article should be split in two articles: Congolese American (Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Congolese American (Republic of the Congo) (or whatever names make this clear). This page should be a disamb page. --Moyogo/ (talk) 10:51, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. However, as it stands it's quite waffly. It's almost like someone is saying, "well I knew a Congolese American once and he was like this ...". No real statistics or definition. Francis Hannaway 14:20, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

I re-read this article today. It now reads like an "I love Congolese Americans" page. They are so quick to adapt, they are more intelligent than anyone else, etc. Closer to the truth is that anyone who makes the effort to live in the US, or any other Western country, already has an advantage over others in that it takes a huge effort to achieve such a move ... the weak are left behind. What the article omits is information about those Congolese Americans who are not successful - how many suffer from poverty and depression - how there is discrimination even from other African Americans. The article is too "happy-happy" and not balanced enough. In short - it reads like an advertisement. There is no distinction between those who are first generation immigrants and those whose families have been in the US for several generations. Francis Hannaway (talk) 07:59, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Give me a break regarding "how many suffer poverty and depression....and discrimination" once arriving in the U.S. The country they came from is a hell-hole of nonstop warfare and the Rape Capitol of the World. Living anywhere else is better and they were lucky to get the hell out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.138.95.30 (talk) 11:23, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Salad sentence

Thus, the Congolese who came to the U.S. to study and got serve their "designations of origin".

I'm not sure what this was trying to say. — MaxEnt 13:39, 7 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like nobody is monitoring the GRAMMAR of this article. It's atrocious and looks like it was written by a 8 year old. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.138.95.30 (talk) 11:25, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Doesn't make any sense

This statement:

"However, emigration from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United States increased in the 1970s after discovering that the dictator of this country, Mobutu Sese Seko, had decided to choose the United States, among other countries, as a place of refuge."

......is really silly. First of all, why would emigration of Congolese to the U.S. increase b/c the strongman Mobutu decided to live there? Second of all Mobutu NEVER LIVED in the U.S. He spent most of his exile in Morocco and died there. The Wikipedia article about the guy says so. I suggest you get your FACTS STRAIGHT and consult your own articles before writing such absurd assertions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.138.95.30 (talk) 11:34, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Latest estimates for Congolese immigrants by county 2017-2021

Republic of the Congo:

1) Mecklenburg County, NC --------------------------- 1,800            
2) Dallas County, TX -------------------------------- 1,600                   
3) Tarrant County, TX ------------------------------- 1,500                
4) Jefferson County, KY ----------------------------- 1,100                 
5) Wake County, NC ---------------------------------- 1,000

Can the old and new data be included together in spreadsheets the way other data over time is shown on Wikipedia?

The Democratic Republic of the Congo shows no county estimates this time around.

Both the Republic of the congo (shown as just "Congo") and the DRC show estimates by state.

See the data at the following link of you think verification is needed: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/us-immigrant-population-state-and-county 2603:6011:A400:259:3065:D186:D5EA:9CAF (talk) 17:28, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]