about Asian Americans was Flower Drum Song.[20]The Chinese American community is the largest ethnic group of Asian Americans, consisting of 22.4% of the Asian American population. They constitute 1.2% of the United States as a whole. In 2006, the Chinese American population numbered approximately 3.6 million.[2] [edit]Locations USA is including at least 7 Chinatowns. Continuing massive immigration from Mainland China, both legal and illegal in origin, has spurred the on going rise of the Chinese American population in the New York metropolitan area; this immigration continues to be fueled by New York's status as an alpha global city, its high population density, its extensive mass transit system, and the New York metropolitan area's enormous economic marketplace.
Alberta The capital of Alberta is Edmonton. The population is 3.7 million people and there are many nationalities. Besides English and French there are also immigrants from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Germany, Ukraine and Scandinavia. In Edmonton and Calgary there are also historic Chinatowns, and Calgary has Canada's third largest Chinese community. Geographical features Alberta covers an area of 661,848 square kilometres, an area about 5% smaller than Texas or 20% larger than France. This makes it the fourth largest province after Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia. To the south, the province borders on the 49th parallel north, separating it from the U.S. state of Montana, while on the north the 60th parallel north divides it from the Northwest Territories
success. Have all the groups of Asian Americans been equally successful? *Chinese Americans = · The first Chinese immigrants 1820 · 1849 California gold rush · Immigration and Nationality Act 1965 beginning of large-scale Chinese immigration · Highly educated intellectuals, scientists and engineers image of "model minority" · ABCs American-born Chinese "bananas" · FOBs recent immigrants "fresh off the boat" *Chinatowns in New York, Manhattan etc. *Education = · Comparatively greater investments in children's education · Disproportionately highly represented at top universities · Often take more difficult courses in mathematics and sciences *They are generally very well (the best out of Asian Americans) accepted in the society, because of their achivements in politics, science, engineering etc. Wisdom at its best! *Japanese Americans = *Historical background = Isolation of Japan from the Western
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