User:NK560/Asian Americans in California

NK560/Asian Americans in California
Total population
	5,556,692 (13.6%)
Languages
	English, Spanish Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Hindustani, Korean, Japanese, Khmer, Hmong, Thai, Lao, other Languages of Asia
Religion
	Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, Irreligion, Others
Related ethnic groups
	Asian Americans

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Asian Californians are residents of the state of California who are of Asian ancestry. California has the largest Asian American population in the U.S., and second highest proportion of Asian American residents, after Hawaii. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Asian-Americans were 13.6% of the state's population.^[2] The largest Asian American ethnic subgroups in California are Filipino Americans, Chinese Americans, Vietnamese Americans, and Indian Americans. Asian Americans in California are concentrated in the San Francisco and Los Angeles metropolitan areas.

Background

Including those with partial Asian ancestry, the following Asian ethnic groups in California are: Filipino (3.9%, 1,474,707), Chinese (except Taiwanese; 3.6%, 1,349,111), Vietnamese (647,589, 1.7%), Indians (590,445, 1.5%), Koreans (505,225, 1.3%), Japanese (428,014, 1.1%), Taiwanese (109,928, 0.2%), Cambodians (102,317, 0.2%), Hmong (91,224, 0.2%), Laotians (69,303, 0.2%), Thai (67,707, 0.1%), Pakistanis (53,474, 0.1%), Indonesians (39,506, 0.1%), Burmese (17,978, 0.05%), Sri Lankans (11,929, 0.03%), Bangladeshis (10,494, 0.03%), Nepalese (6,231, 0.01%), Malaysians (5,595, 0.01%), Mongolians (4,993, 0.1%), Singaporeans (1,513, 0.004%), Okinawans (1,377, 0.003%), and Bhutanese (750, 0.001%).^[2]

Ethnic groups

Cambodian

There are many Cambodians in Long Beach, Stockton, and Fresno.

Chinese

San Francisco is 21.4% Chinese, and the San Francisco Bay Area is 8% Chinese. Many of the Chinese Americans are Cantonese-speaking immigrants or descendants from Guangdong province and Hong Kong. There are also many Taiwanese and mainland Chinese immigrants in the Silicon Valley area.

Los Angeles is 1.8% Chinese, and Los Angeles County is 4% Chinese. A large portion of the Chinese population resides in the San Gabriel Valley. Areas with notable Chinese and Chinese-American populations include Chinatown in Los Angeles, the San Gabriel Valley/ the 626 (Arcadia, Alhambra, El Monte, Monterey Park, Rosemead, San Gabriel, Temple City), Rowland Heights, Diamond Bar, Hacienda Heights, and the Los Angeles County/Orange County border cities of Cerritos and Artesia. Chinatown in Los Angeles is populated by mostly working-class Cantonese and mainland Chinese while the western San Gabriel Valley has a diverse Chinese and Taiwanese population. Rowland Heights and the Eastern San Gabriel Valley is mainly populated by Taiwanese.

In Orange County, Irvine has a large Chinese and Taiwanese population.

Filipino

The majority of Filipinos in California reside in the Greater Los Angeles area. According to a 2013 study, there are 1.5 million Filipino Americans in California ^[3], making them one of the largest Asian ethnic groups in the state. Since 2018 the population has grown to 1.6 million according to some sources ^[4].

Hmong

As of the 2010 census, a little over 91,000 Hmong live in California alone, out of the total 260,000 in the country ^[5].

Indian

California has the most Indian Americans in terms of sheer number, but percentage-wise the state with the highest number of Indian Americans is New Jersey.

Indonesian

Los Angeles, California is home to the largest population of Indonesians in America, with Riverside, California having the second largest population ^[6].

Japanese

California contains five of the top 10 metropolitan cities with the greatest Japanese population in the United States.^[7] Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, and Sacramento have the largest Japanese populations in California, with Los Angeles having more than the other cities combined.

There are several areas of California that held assembly centers and internment camps (also known as relocation centers) where Japanese Americans were forced to relocate to after the Attack on Pearl Harbor, such as Arcadia (Santa Anita Racetrack), Fresno (Fresno Fairgrounds), Arboga, Merced, Owens Valley (Manzanar War Relocation Center), Pinedale (Pinedale, California), Pomona (Fairplex), Sacramento (Camp Kohler), Salinas (California Rodeo Salinas), San Bruno (Tanforan), Stockton, California (San Joaquin County Fairgrounds), Tulare, Turlock (Stanislaus County Fairgrounds), and Woodland. The Tule Lake War Relocation Center in Modoc County was the biggest of the 10 internment camps in its prime.

Korean

Koreans make up 16% of the Asian Pacific Islander (API) community in Los Angeles County, the highest percentage in the entire country. In the API community of California, Koreans comprise 9% of the population, but only 1% of the total population ^[8].

Laotian

California is the top state in the country with the largest Laotian population, which as of 2015 is 271,000 ^[9]. Among the population of Laotians, Hmong people are counted as well.

Taiwanese

Los Angeles is home to the largest percentage of Taiwanese Americans in the country

Thai

California possesses the largest Thai population outside of Asia, and is the only state in the country that has a designated "Thai Town," which is also the first of its kind globally.

Of the 5.6 million Asian people in California, approximately 68,000 are Thai, which is 28.5% of the entire Thai population in the United States http://thaicdc.org/ourcommunity/

Vietnamese

San Jose is 10% Vietnamese, and the San Francisco Bay Area has a sizable Vietnamese population.

Orange County has a large Vietnamese population, with much of the population in Garden Grove.

Notable People

This is a list of notable people of Asian descent who were either born, raised, or spent a significant amount of time in their formative years in California.

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References

^ Jonathan H. X. Lee; Kathleen M. Nadeau (2011). Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife. ABC-CLIO. pp. 333–334. ISBN 978-0-313-35066-5. Since the Philippines was colonized by Spain, Filipino Americans in general can speak and understand Spanish too.
^ ^a ^b "California QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau". Quickfacts.census.gov. 2011. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
^ Bureau, INQUIRER net US. "Filipinos are biggest Asian group in California—new study". globalnation.inquirer.net. Retrieved 2020-02-14. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
^ "Historically underrepresented, Filipino-American candidates look toward Congress". nbcnews.com.
^ "Hmong Population in the U.S. | Hmong American Center". www.wausauhmong.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
^ NW, 1615 L. St; Washington, Suite 800; Inquiries, DC 20036 USA202-419-4300 | Main202-419-4349 | Fax202-419-4372 | Media. "Top 10 metro areas by Indonesian American population". Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project. Retrieved 2020-02-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "Japanese in the U.S. Fact Sheet". pewsocialtrends.org.
^ "Census Demographics and Citizenship". Korean American Coalition. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
^ NW, 1615 L. St; Washington, Suite 800; Inquiries, DC 20036 USA202-419-4300 | Main202-419-4349 | Fax202-419-4372 | Media. "Laotians | Data on Asian Americans". Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project. Retrieved 2020-02-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

External links

Hispanics: California's Next Majority, The New York Times

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[SpanishChinese-1] Jonathan H. X. Lee; Kathleen M. Nadeau (2011). Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife. ABC-CLIO. pp. 333–334. ISBN 978-0-313-35066-5. Since the Philippines was colonized by Spain, Filipino Americans in general can speak and understand Spanish too.

[census-2] "California QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau". Quickfacts.census.gov. 2011. Retrieved October 6, 2013.

[3] Bureau, INQUIRER net US. "Filipinos are biggest Asian group in California—new study". globalnation.inquirer.net. Retrieved 2020-02-14. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)

[:1-4] "Historically underrepresented, Filipino-American candidates look toward Congress". nbcnews.com.

[5] "Hmong Population in the U.S. | Hmong American Center". www.wausauhmong.org. Retrieved 2020-02-14.

[6] NW, 1615 L. St; Washington, Suite 800; Inquiries, DC 20036 USA202-419-4300 | Main202-419-4349 | Fax202-419-4372 | Media. "Top 10 metro areas by Indonesian American population". Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project. Retrieved 2020-02-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[:0-7] "Japanese in the U.S. Fact Sheet". pewsocialtrends.org.

[8] "Census Demographics and Citizenship". Korean American Coalition. Retrieved 2020-02-14.

[9] NW, 1615 L. St; Washington, Suite 800; Inquiries, DC 20036 USA202-419-4300 | Main202-419-4349 | Fax202-419-4372 | Media. "Laotians | Data on Asian Americans". Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project. Retrieved 2020-02-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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v t e Asian Americans
Central Asian	Afghan Baloch Kazakh Kyrgyz Tajik Turkmen Uyghur Uzbek
East Asian	Chinese Fuzhounese Hakka Hoklo Hong Kong Japanese Ryukyuan (Okinawans) in Hawaii Korean in Hawaii Mongolian Taiwanese Tibetan
South Asian	Bangladeshi Bengali Bhutanese Indian Gujarati Telugu Indo-Caribbean Maldivian Nepalese Pakistani Punjabi Sindhi Tamil Sri Lankan
Southeast Asian	Burmese Karen Cambodian Filipino Hmong Indonesian Laotian Malaysian Singaporean Thai Vietnamese Mien
Other	Asian Hispanic and Latino Punjabi Mexican Multiracial Americans Afro-Asian Amerasian
History	Immigration Military Internment of Japanese Americans
Topics	Arts and Entertainment Broadcast journalism Demographics Politics Science and technology Sports Stereotypes East and Southeast Asians South Asians Model minority myth
Regions	California Los Angeles San Francisco Metro Detroit Hawaii Houston Louisiana Maryland New York City Nevada North Carolina Philadelphia Puerto Rico Washington Washington, D.C. Virginia

v t e Ethnic groups in California
Groups	Africans Asians Hispanics and Latinos Mexicans Basques Californios Pacific Islanders White Americans
Indigenous peoples	List Mission Indians
San Francisco	African Americans Armenians Chinese Japanese Jews Hispanics and Latinos Indian White Americans Italians Filipinos French
Los Angeles	African Americans Taiwanese Armenians Bangladeshis Central Americans Salvadorans Chinese Taiwanese Ethiopians Filipinos Indians Iranians Israelis Italians Japanese Jews Koreans Mexicans Palestinians Thais Ukrainians