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English, Mandarin (官話), Cantonese (廣東話), Fuzhounese (福州話), Bengali (বাংলা), Gujarati (ગુજરાતી), Hindi (हिन्दी), Tamil (தமிழ்), Telugu (తెలుగు), Tagalog, Urdu (اُردُو), Korean (한국어), Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ), Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt), Thai (ภาษาไทย), Japanese (日本語), Khmer (ខ្មែរ), Hmong (𖬇𖬰𖬞 𖬌𖬣𖬵), Lao (ລາວ), and other Languages of Asia, as well as Spanish (español) [1] | |
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Asian Americans |
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Asians in New York City represent the largest Asian diaspora of any city in the world.
New York City alone, according to the 2010 Census, has now become home to more than one million Asian Americans, greater than the combined totals of San Francisco and Los Angeles. [2] New York contains the highest total Asian population of any U.S. city proper. [3]
In 2020, approximately 9% of New York City's population was of Chinese ethnicity, with about eighty percent of Chinese New Yorkers living in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn alone; New York City itself contains by far the highest ethnic Chinese population of any individual city outside Asia, estimated at 628,763 as of 2017. [4] There is also a rising demand of Asian population choose to live in Long Island City. [5] Much of the Chinese community lives in Chinatown, Brooklyn, Chinatown, Manhattan, Flushing, Queens, Long Island City, Queens, Sunset Park, Brooklyn and Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. In September 2023, New York State made Lunar New Year a mandatory public school holiday. [6] [7]
Indian and Indian Americans comprise the largest American municipal South Asian diaspora, comprising 2.4% of the city's population, with Bangladeshi and Bangladeshi Americans and people of Pakistani heritage at 0.7% and 0.5%, respectively. [8] Queens is over 8% South Asian; 6-7% Indian. Tompkinsville, Staten Island has many Sri Lankans. In 2023, New York State made Diwali a mandatory public school holiday. [7]
People of Korean heritage made up 1.2% of the city's population. They are more commonly in Flushing and Koreatown, Manhattan.
Filipino and Filipino Americans were the largest southeast Asian ethnic group at 0.8%. The community has a stronghold in Woodside, Queens. Around 13,000 Filipino Americans and immigrants live in this area, equating to 15% of Woodside's population.
Japanese or Japanese American heritage people are 0.3% and have a presence in Manhattan.
People of Vietnamese heritage made up 0.2% of New York City's population in 2010.
One of the partner research centers of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Policy Research Consortium is based at the City University of New York. New York University hosts the Program in Asian/Pacific/American Studies. [9] "Serve the People: The Asian American Movement in New York" was an exhibition at Interference Archive from December 2013 - March 2014, [10] supported by the Museum of Chinese in America.
Activist organizations:
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Since the Philippines was colonized by Spain, Filipino Americans in general can speak and understand Spanish too.
Asians, a group more commonly associated with the West Coast, are surging in New York, where they have long been eclipsed in the city's kaleidoscopic racial and ethnic mix. For the first time, according to census figures released in the spring, their numbers have topped one million—nearly 1 in 8 New Yorkers—which is more than the Asian population in the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles combined.
New school holidays Hochul signed legislation to declare Asian Lunar New Year a public school holiday across New York State. Legislation (A.7768/S.7573) would ensure schools are not in session on Lunar New Year, underscoring Hochul's commitment to supporting and protecting New York's AAPI community. The Democrat also signed legislation that makes Diwali a school holiday for New York City public schools. Legislation S.7574/A.7769 requires that all public schools in New York City be closed on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Indian calendar in each year, which is known as Diwali.
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