Where are the unusual immigrant enclaves in your city or country?

They took our JOBS!!!

DC metro area. Everybody flocks here.

Northeast Philly has tons of people from Russia and former USSR republics. There are some great restaurants there.

Ceuta, Spanish enclave in Morocco.

The Boston area has the 3rd largest Haitian immigrant population in the country and the largest population of Cape Verdeans.

Hmongs in Fresno.

Many recent immigrant groups, like the Somalis in Maine andMinnesota (which seems a bit odd, climatologically) were first resettled there by the US government. When their fellow countrymen and woman got here, resettled or not, they went there, too.

Dallas has lots of Syrians. Just as many US cities, going back more than a century, had and have immigrant enclaves: the Italians settled near other Italians, the Poles, Greeks, Irish, etc. likewise. Boston’s North End (Italian), Detroit’s Greektown, every city’s Chinatown, etc.

Why OP questions that this is so - and has been since before the Civil War - is surprising. Is this indicative of a lack of historical knowledge, more surprising as it’s been a central tenet of immigrant assimilation by so many of our ancestors since the country began, or an an effort to demonize immigrants, something seen more and more on DL, is unclear to me. I hope it’s not the latter.

Homos.

OP, I've wondered this too, from time to time. It is interesting to see immigrant populations clustered together in odd places.

Yes, OP. I like taking strolls through immigrant enclaves too.

Portuguese in Fall River and New Bedford, MA. I was googling because I was going to mention the Portuguese in my coastal CT hometown. MA has more, though.

I hope you Muricans know how lucky you are - you have access to such a wide variety of hot ethnic cock and you don't even have to leave the country for it.

Campione d'Italia is an Italian town completely inside Switzerland. It has a massive monstrously ugly casino that went bankrupt.

Stop being an Aspie R7

OP was merely asking why, for example, Somalis settled in a seemingly random place like Minneapolis, given that Somalia has such a hot climate.

The early immigrants to Minnesota from Scandinavia knew how to farm in a cold climate, and so it's not all that surprising they wound up there.

Queens has them all, yes, all nationalities

More divisive click bait………

Greeks in Salt Lake City.

It's not divisive at all R16. It's actually quite interesting how and why certain groups wound up in certain places.

Vietnamese in Houston and Orange County.

Are you interested in gay ghettos the same, R18?

Yes R20. I found the history of why gay men wound up in large numbers in San Francisco after WW2 to be very interesting.

Ethiopians in Boulder, CO.

Lebanese in Meridian, MS

Croats in Biloxi, MS

Russians in Lincoln Park, Chicago. They all live in “affordable rent” buildings. I wonder how they all stick together and get into these buildings.

I have a good friend who is Indian and she claims that different castes of Indians settled in different areas, that the Bay Area Indians are most Brahmins who came to work in Silicon Valley, that the Indians in the South are from a different caste and all named Patel and run motels, and that the Indians in the NY area are a mix--Brahmins in finance and tech and lower caste driving cabs and owning delis.

There's a town in NJ called Edison that is mostly Indian now and she says she and her friends refer to the people there as "Guindians" (portmanteau of "Guido" and "Indian")

OTOH, while she's great, she's also someone who never lets facts get in the way of a great story, so take the above with a grain of salt.

I do know, independently of her, that many Indians and Chinese are moving into heavily Jewish suburbs of the Northeast, places like Scarsdale, Short Hills, and Newton, because those towns have excellent public schools.

Armenians in Glendale

All these immigrants mentioned are notoriously anti-gay. I weep for the future of gays in America.

Persians in Beverly Hills and Great Neck, LI

Syrian Jews in Deal, NJ and Ocean Parkway neighborhood in Brooklyn

Albanian Muslims in the Bronx

Brazilians in Newark, NJ (Ironbound District)

And then their children, who are born in the US, adopt American cultural mores and the parents generation dies off. R26

No they don’t ^.

I live in a Muslim enclave (Dearborn/Metro-Detroit), and I can assure you—they don’t.

Somalis are also in Tempe, AZ.

Hmong in Wisconsin

Minneapolis / St Paul: Minnesota in general has a strong social service network willing to settle refugees. Vietnamese and Hmong (Lao) settled in St Paul > primarily because one of their generals/warlords decided to live there. I believe the same is true of Somali's in Minneapolis. We also have a large west African community in the northwest suburbs: Liberians, Ghanians, etc.

I grew up in a predominantly white, Catholic suburb of St. Louis. Today it is virtually all Bosnian Muslims.

Ethiopians in Boulder, CO????? One restaurant doesn’t make an enclave. This is something made up by a white hippy. I remember when Boulder had a “soul food” restaurant that got everyone excited, but no one went to. Boulder, stop pretending you’re not homophobic and a town of all white people!

Some of these groups were refugees who were settled in areas determined by social service groups such as Catholic Charities and their counterparts in Protestant sects.

FLDS in AZ and UT.

[quote] Hmongs in Fresno.

I have two questions for you:

1) What'a Hmong?

2) Why Fresno??

[quote] Greeks in Salt Lake City.

I was watching Diner's Drive-Ins and Dives, and was wondering why so many Greek and Middle Eastern restaurants were featured in Salt Lake City (of all places).

Anyone know why they moved there?

[quote] I found the history of why gay men wound up in large numbers in San Francisco after WW2 to be very interesting.

Damn, I saw a documentary about this - ages ago - but forgot why they said gay men started flocking to San Francisco.

I wish I had remembered the name of the DOC!!

[quote] FLDS in AZ and UT.

Translation, please???

[quote]Lebanese in Meridian, MS

Dykes in Mississippi? My stars!

Yeah the Portuguese / Cape Verde immigrants in Massachusetts seems so particular. I heard Portuguese programming on the local radio there - which I've never heard anywhere else in the US. Spanish of course - there are so many Spanish stations it is insane. Russian, Polish, Korean, Chinese, Haitian French, Vietnamese - all relatively common and I've heard in many areas of the US.

But Portuguese in Massachusetts was a first for me.

Yes R39

That nice Tig Notaro woman was from Mississippi and she was a Lebanese.

I don’t think Blanche would call lesbians, d-kes, asshole. Don’t turn beloved gay characters in gay culture into homophobes.

Burmese refugees in Buffalo, NY.

r38 I think FLDS is one of those extremist Mormon groups. Certainly not an "immigrant" group.

Hmongs are an ethnic group from southeast Asia and southern China.

My Greek family began its immigrant journey in Salt Lake City, although they didn't stay there long. I think, like many immigrant groups, they went to a place where there were people they knew from the old country (family members, people from the same town, etc.)

Here's why the Hmong are in the US: (From Wiki at R44)

In the early 1960s, partially as a result of the North Vietnamese invasion of Laos, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Special Activities Division began to recruit, train and lead the indigenous Hmong people in Laos to fight against North Vietnamese Army divisions invading Laos during the Vietnam War. This "Secret Army" was organized into various mobile regiments and divisions, including various Special Guerrilla Units, all of whom were led by General Vang Pao. An estimated sixty-percent (60%) of Hmong men in Laos joined up

That doesn't really explain how they got here, R45.

Murphy Village in South Carolina. Gypsy Encampment.

R47, Gypsies are all over West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

In Canada: I think Toronto has immigrant communities from seemingly everywhere in the world - it has a Tibetan neighborhood, which is an ethnic group I’ve never seen in any other city in great numbers before.

The lower mainland of course has a huge number of Hong Kong Chinese and Punjabi Sikh.

I think Winnipeg has the largest Filipino community per capita anywhere.

Montreal has a large Haitian community.

Rwandans in Dayton, Ohio

Also, Somalis in Columbus

R38 Fund mentalist Latter Day Saints

[quote] I think Winnipeg has the largest Filipino community per capita anywhere.

Wrong.

Filipinos make up 25 percent of Hawaii's population of 1.4 million people.

TWENTY FIVE PERCENT.

That means one out of every four people you see in Hawaii is a filipino.

There’s an enclave of Africans in Breckinridge, CO. They bag groceries at the local supermarket.

The Brazilian infestation in MA is crazy. They’ve taken over entire towns and every second shop is some Brazilian whatever. Don’t bother going to Brazil, just come to central east MA if you want to immerse yourself in their culture.

Americans in South Kensington and Chelsea. The local Waitrose has a whole section of exotic foods for them.

R55 I want to immerse myself in their dicks and asses. Are they any good?

Vietnamese, Somalians, Bosnians

The Polish are invading London!

Sikhs in Greenwood, IN ( Lots of Sikh males are long distance truckers and Central Indiana has lots of different interstates running through it.)

Kurds in Nashville

Puerto Ricans in Orlando

^^ Puerto Ricans are not immigrants. They are US citizens.

Vermont (mostly Burlington) has pockets of every war torn nation's population. We have an initiative that brings immigrants over. You don't even really have to ask people when they got here if you know any world history. My family was one of the first families through the program actually when it first started after WWII.

Most of the different populations have been overall wonderful additions (my family being one of the exceptions of course) and I love being able to go down my street /through my neighborhood and know how much I have in common with my immigrant neighbors.

My favorites from a 'bring joy for a silly reason' are the Tibetan people. If there is even the teensiest tiniest piece of lawn or green available they will plant vegetables and beautiful flowers surrounded by shiny objects and plastic thingamabobs. If there is no lawn but there is a flat surface they will put planters out. if there is no flat surface they will make one with baby gates and milk crates. It's inspiring.

The friendliest are the Haitian women and the Congolese women.

Hondurans in New Orleans area (example-Bianca Del Rio)

[quote] If there is even the teensiest tiniest piece of lawn or green available they will plant vegetables and beautiful flowers surrounded by shiny objects and plastic thingamabobs. If there is no lawn but there is a flat surface they will put planters out. if there is no flat surface they will make one with baby gates and milk crates.

That sounds tacky as fuck, as well as an eye sore.

I wouldn't want Tibetans in my neighborhood, based on what you described.

[quote] Hondurans in New Orleans area (example-Bianca Del Rio)

I heard there are tons of vientanamese too.

R57 if that’s what you like, you’ll find it. There are some stunning examples in the local supermarkets. And gyms, one imagines.

The Portuguese, and now their co-linguist Brazilian cousins, have been in New Bedford for 200 years. And near-by Fall River for 100 years or more. It was a a busy whaling port and the Cape Verdeans and Portuguese were among the sailors. Think Moby Dick. Besides the Brazilians, lots of them now from Minas Gerais, there was a big influx of Portuguese nationals living in the country’s colonies when Portugal lost its empire in the 1970’s. Their kids are totally assimilated by now. The Brazilians are the newcomers but seem to assimilate more quickly and they’re usually hardworking and good-looking people.

All of them.

Liberians in Staten Island

Nigerians in Houston

Basque people in Bakersfield

Venezuelans in Weston, Florida (perhaps not that unusual)

Israelis in Tarzana, Encino and Sherman Oaks

[quote]And then their children, who are born in the US, adopt American cultural mores and the parents generation dies off.

Not anymore, dear.

Yemenis in Michigan.

[quote]Some of these groups were refugees who were settled in areas determined by social service groups such as Catholic Charities and their counterparts in Protestant sects.

AKA white guilt do-gooders who should've left well enough alone. The Somalis never should've been let in.

Azoreans in... dammit... somewhere near Oakland, California.

Nashville has a huge Kurdish population.

From pretty much everywhere and living pretty much everywhere in Sydney (and certainly other large Australian cities) - 20% of Australians speak a language other than English at home and 30% of Australians were born elsewhere.

Now I’ll step aside for the inevitable Australians/racists/sharks/dingo/Hemsworth pile-on.

Detroit attracts a ton of Arabs.

Anglos in Sutton Place and Park Avenue.

Mexicans in Texas.....oh wait.

[quote] Mexicans in Texas.....oh wait.

Oh, wait... indeed.

Since Texas originally belonged to Mexico and it was the Americans who occupied and stole the land from them.

So if anything, it's the Americans who make up the immigrant enclave.

CUNT at R80.

I can only go by the restaurants here. Lots of Jamaicans that's for sure. But get this I know how to make their beef patties. Ha ha ha ha.

I do love sampling some of the cock here too.

Get a sense of humor cunt at R81. I was joking.

Being from Texas I know the history.

R78 because a century ago, Henry Ford hired Syrians. They've been there for a while.

[quote]Since Texas originally belonged to Mexico and it was the Americans who occupied and stole the land from them.

Read a fucking history book you moron. Texas gained independence from Mexico and was known as the Republic of Texas. Many of the people who fought for Texas to be independent were of Mexican background. Texas then accepted the invitation from the United States to join the Union, and became a US state.

R84, I had no idea. Good to know!

I think at least in Canada you go where the government sends you. Years ago I worked in Fort Mcmurray and it was full of African people. I can’t imagine coming from a place That hot to northern Alberta.

R87, that seems like a severe form of punishment. "OH, you're from a hot country?! Well, let's put you in our coldest province that is still decently populated".

R49 Speaking of Canada, it has the world's third largest population of Ukrainians behind Ukraine and Russia. With the vast majority of them settling in the prairie provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba). Their immigration to Canada began well over a hundred years ago, so it's not that interesting compared to newer enclaves and immigrants. Most of the immigrants came from Galicia and it was mostly agrarian.

Newton, NJ is pure rural hick, R24. The nearest "Jewish" area would be Rockaway Township a half hour away, not known for its schools.

Parsippany is heavily Indian, like Edison.

I want them here. I’ve always wanted other cultures here.

Lot of Bosnians In Jax Fl as well as Russians . Huge Vietnamese community since the 70s . Now that I think about it,its pretty damn diverse for such a shit hole backwards city .

R89, I"m genuinely surprised there are more Ukranians in Canada than America.

Tibetan nannies are prized by Upper East Side moms for their placid and unflappable demeanor. They’re supposed to be very caring and patient people. Which, god knows, the children of those women need.

Russians and Saudis in Montreux.

R46 We lost the war. Rather than having the men who fought for us slaughtered by the Viet Kong or Laotian communists we agreed to relocate them and their families to the states. Most of them followed which ever warlord they fought for in SE Asia to wherever they ended up in America.

We are facing this same dilemma as we finally leave Afghanistan. So expect another 50,000-100,000 Afghanis' here shortly

Many groups also settled into smaller towns in the upper midwest that had a need for workers in poultry/beef processing (slaughterhouses). For some odd reason a job most Americans don't want.

Marshallese in Northwest Arkansas

Finns in North Central (Leominster, Fitchburg, Gardner) MA.

They’ve largely assimilated by now, but until fairly recently the Finnish Consulate in Massachusetts was in Fitchburg, not Boston.

The Merrimack Valley north of Boston consists of mill cities and towns (Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill) that have always been fertile gateways for immigrant communities. Started out with Irish, French Canadians, Italians, Poles, Hungarians, Lithuanians, Armenians, Greeks, Syrians, Lebanese, Portuguese, and later in the 1950s, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Cubans, followed later by Haitians, Cambodians, Vietnamese, other Asian countries (China, Korea, Philippines, Taiwan), Colombians, Brazilians and other Latin American countries.

Columbus Ohio has a large Ethiopian population, settled there by the US government in the 90s

Aren’t the Hmong known for bride kidnapping like the Kyrgyz?

Hmong were a people of Laos, who the U.S. supported in the Vietnam War and allowed many to relocate to the U.S. after Laos went communist.

The Hmong were featured in that rather terrible Clint Eastwood movie..

I don't think that was a bad movie, R103

R68 huge Houston based Nigerian Medicaid fraud busted by the FBI a few years ago. There is a large Nigerian organized crime presence there. In NYC Russian organized crime dominates Medicaid fraud.

Yemenis in Buffalo- I did locus tenens at the Erie County Hospital, had many as patients, nice people.

Pilipino Town in my hometown of LA, near the Kaiser on Sunset. I used to play tennis on the public tennis courts there and I became an unofficial member of their tennis country club. They would bring food and drink…LAPD once busted them , their average age was 75.

Midgets in Vienna, Virginia

Wrong R89. There are about 2 million Ukrainians in the US and a quarter that number in Canada. I doubt there is any non Native ethnic group with more numbers in Canada than in the US.

We are macro and you are still micro.

R93 he is wrong. See above.

R102 Wrong. The Hmong fought along and protected US troops. The US had an obligation to save the Hmong for their assistance and settled them in farming communities in the US.

The Vietnamese have totally assimilated into US society, they've contributed a lot.

All immigrant groups have contributed a lot!

Ukrainians and Russians (mostly, but not all, Jewish...or at least mixed faith families). Lots of delis, markets, and local businesses. Persians (Jewish and born Muslim but actually atheist) in Los Angeles. Armenians, who have their own district. All business owners. There is a Zoroastrian temple close to a Persian market I buy canned goods from...everytime I pass by it, I think of Freddie Mercury. Some young Persian men are long, super lean and gracile, ADORABLE asses, long limbs, graceful hands ans man, their eyes and lashes...then, after 50 they kind of become hollow and dry up.

Aging Jet Set spawn of long dead aristocrats and plutocrats, in Cologny.

[quote]So expect another 50,000-100,000 Afghanis' here shortly

I'll take one of the hot ones.

The San Gabriel Valley east of LA has a huge Asian community--mostly Chinese (mainland and Taiwan), but also Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese. There are a number of cities that now have majority Asian populations.

I love the right-wing Nazis who try to pretend to be pro-gay by dressing up their racism as queer activism.

All the barbers in Tempe, AZ are Uzbeki Jews, which is kind of odd.

As someone else mentioned, there are also a lot of Somalis in Tempe; they all seem to work at Walmart. The women are tiny and wear burkas that cover everything except their faces. They look like little walking peanuts on the sidewalk.

There are also lots of Bosnians in Phoenix.

Lots of Pacific Islanders in Salt Lake City, too.

You import the third world and you become the third world.

Long Beach has little Cambodia. Westminster, Vietnamese. Gardena and Torrance, CA have the largest Japanese American populations outside of Hawaii. West LA and Mid City - Jewish enclaves; same with Tarzana, Woodland Hills and parts of Reseda. San Pedro - Italian and Croatian. Santa Monica has a large British enclave. Mid City also has Little Ethiopia, south of Wilshire on Fairfax, before you cross the 10. Not an ethnicity but there is an enclave of Quakers in Yorba Linda. Supposedly there is a Little People enclave in Long Beach, in Bixby Knolls. Ladera Heights / Baldwin Hills / Windsor Park is a very affluent black area and sometimes called the Black Beverly Hills. Hidden Hills/Westlake Village/Calabasas has a large Russian population.

Tons of latino and asian communities in South Philly.

^ West L.A. and Mid City have Jewish enclaves. What’s next? Are you going to name all the colors? Count to 10?

[quote]Lots of Pacific Islanders in Salt Lake City, too.

You can blame that on the proselytizing missionaries of the Mormon church.

Pacific Islanders are among the few groups left that will still bite. The church is losing its stranglehold on Utah as the number of new recruits dries up, boomers die off, and younger members quit, so it’s in their interest to speed up the rate of Pacific Islander relocation.

That’s where the BYU scholarships come in as well as the unspoken promise — very loudly unspoken — that PI people already in Utah will gain higher status in the church if they help friends and relatives relocate. And they’ll be #blessed beyond words. They don’t and they aren’t.

It’s really gross to hear people talk about it because there’s always an undercurrent of “ewwww, so sad, but I suppose to [italic]those people[/italic] it’s luxurious” when it’s learned that two huge multi-generational families are crammed into a three-bedroom house solely because they’ve fallen for yet another lie.

Samoans in Carson.

[quote]Newton, NJ is pure rural hick, [R24]. The nearest "Jewish" area would be Rockaway Township a half hour away, not known for its schools.

I'm sure r24 was talking about Newton, MA, r90.

West Hollywood, of all places, has a sizable Russian population and they're all complete fucking assholes.

Apparently, my city/county, Sacramento, has one of the largest, if not the largest, Fijian communities in the U.S. There are a couple of churches -- 7th Day Adventists and Assemblies of God -- in town. Fijians own a convenience store (liquor, lottery tickets and taro root) and a home health aid agency in my neighborhood.

I thought L A was known for pampered Persian boys?

Forgot to post link at r127.

R127, how can we get in touch with them?

[quote] Newton, NJ is pure rural hick, [R24]. The nearest "Jewish" area would be Rockaway Township a half hour away, not known for its schools.

LOL, and yes, thank you R125, I was indeed referring to Newton, MA--I had no idea there even was a Newton in New Jersey. Or a Rockaway, for that matter. Only knew of the one in Queens.

[quote] West LA and Mid City - Jewish enclaves; same with Tarzana, Woodland Hills and parts of Reseda.

Jews who work in the entertainment industry living in Beverly Hills and Brentwood! Imagine! (Or are you referring to the ultra-Orthodox along Fairfield and over by Pico on the west side?)

While the Jewish community in the Valley have mostly moved further out to Calabasas and Westlake Village, the mid-20th century Jewish community was also heavily centered in Encino, which, along with Tarzana, Woodland Hills and Sherman Oaks now has a sizable Israeli population.

(And yes, since someone is bound to point it out, Calabasas and Westlake are in the Conejo Valley, not the San Fernando Valley)

Irish travellers in White Settlement, Texas.

R115, I think SoCal also has a decent population of Uyghuirs (the population China is trying to kill off). My friend said that there is actually a Uyghuir restaurant there.

Interesting, r123.  The Fijian denominations I mentioned at r127 are all conservative and I found another (Church of God) that sounds the same.  There's also a Methodist congregation, but I suspect their not as liberal as some American Methodists.

There's also a pretty large Mormon PI community, apparently.  About 1,100 congregants go to services at two different locations, probably more now since the linked article is seven years old.

Do they require tithing for immigrants like these?  Giving away 10% of an immigrant family's income could put them in financial straits.  It would be awful if LDS takes money from them and proceeds to pat themselves of the back for their diversity and using them as PR for the

^PR for the church.

Hmm. I've tried to post a link a few times but it gets rejected. If interested, Google Sacramento Bee Mormom diversity 2014.

Manchester (Salford) in the UK has sizeable Jewish, Chinese and Maltese populations.

You cannot count the people of Irish descent as it covers almost every current resident.

They've all existed for well over 150 years and just regard themselves as British though.

Someone mentioned upthread that Cape Verde people speak Portuguese, they don't it's a variant called Krilu. A bit like pigeon English.

The British of Santa Monica.

[quote] A bit like pigeon English.

That would be PIDGIN English.

I know at one time there were quite a lot of Russian refugees in the Sacramento area.

R38, R46, When South Vietnam and Laos fell to the Communists, the Hmong who served in the US Secret Army and their descendants faced persecution in their homeland. 200,000 refugees fled to neighborhoring Thailand, and were later resettled in the US, mainly in Fresno, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Wasau, Wisconsin. Why those cities? Because that's where their American sponsors were from.

I am indian, born in edison new jersey and yes there are tons of indians in that area. Middlesex county, south brunswick, plainsboro, west windsor...

[quote]Do they require tithing for immigrants like these? Giving away 10% of an immigrant family's income could put them in financial straits.

They do. Paying the full tithe is required of anyone who wants to be in good standing, with a few exceptions: those who depend 100% on church welfare programs (not applicable since FDR, but they still repeat it because it sounds so warm and fuzzy) and those in general-authority positions (~100 people in upper management who receive a living expense and parsonage directly from the church). Financial help from missionaries' families isn't counted but they do have to pay on other income, if there is any.

That $100 billion rainy-day fund is no accident.

Lots of Afghans in SF Bay Area town of Fremont, CA (known as Little Kabul).

An older Afghani Lyft driver I hooked up with on BBRT told me lots of them assisted the US military as translators, and were “rewarded” with resettlement (along with families).

Someone mentioned above how a group resettles into a particular area, and that later serves as a nexus for newer arrivals. Especially for cultural and social contacts.

Btw, that guy had the thickest dick I’ve ever seen in my life.

R132, The bulk of Calabasas lies in the SFV, which is where most of the upscale gated estates are. The more modest communities further west, around Las Virgenes and Lost Hills Road are in the Conejo Valley side of Calabasas.

White people in LA.

Russian refugees (mostly Slavic Baptist) in Sacramento, Portland, Spokane, and Seattle suburbs. The history is that under Stalin, religious people who were not Russian Orthodox were considered a danger, and forcibly removed from Western Russia and the Ukraine to the central Asian republics and to Siberia, mostly in the 1930s. So these Slavic Baptists, who probably number close to 1,000,000 in the western US, are almost all from places like Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Omsk, (Siberia). They are ethnically Russian, and after the breakup of the Soviet Union, were not particularly welcome in the new Muslim republics, whose populations were mostly nomadic and Turkik.

R25, and in Burbank, Hollywood, North Hollywood, etc.

R126 - yes, and, in fact Lauren Bacall's family came from Romania and they lived there and she says how she'd go on her bike to see Bogart and her mom would be mumbling in the Romanian language about shame and a married man and how her daughter was "like a man" (roommate says it means a woman too tough and forceful to be argued with in a reasonable manner). In the1980's, when my roommate and her family were living there and she was a kid, she recalls their absolute oblivion to the AIDS crisis, gay culture or desire or even the notion that they should assimilate. Her dad was different because he married an American law student and was from an intellectual family so obviously she grew up American but really, Russians and other Eastern European folks at that time were still living in their own bubble and voting Republican. Very oblivious to the surroundings.

Some of you naming "unusual" enclaves in Los Angeles/Southern California are clearly transplants within the past 20 years.

Oh fuck you R151, I was born at Queen of Angels Hospital, can't get any more LA than that.

Actually R150, the Russians in WeHo are more recent immigrants, mostly Russian Jews who got out in the 80s and 90s,

Calm down, Queen of Angels/ R152. I didn't say YOU, specifically -- I said "some" of the posters naming groups in L.A.

R153 - I agrea that there are many recent transplants but they were present in the 50's - 80's as well in their own huddle. The newer ones are mostly Jews who went from Ukraine and Russia to Israel and then to the area. Lots of the older Eastern Europeans in the area are from quite a different social strata - intellectuals who escaped as the Communist regime rendered them "of socially unhealthy origin" (i.e. educates and, thus a challenge for the regime). This is exactly how my roommate's dad got out of the Communist hell that was Romania and same for many of the original immigrants in that area. Doctors, artists, writers, and other educated people. Lots of the newcomers are more mercantile and have opened markets, delis, etc.

Oh and R154 - I was born at Glendale Memorial (where my late partner practiced) and my roommate at Cedar-Sinai. We are both from Los Angeles.

R151 I was born in Los Angeles, and have been here all my life, so no. I stand by my post. It’s factual.

[Quote]Russian refugees (mostly Slavic Baptist)

[Quote]Russians and other Eastern European folks at that time were still living in their own bubble and voting Republican. Very oblivious to the surroundings.

Many still live in their bubble. Here in the Sacramento area, one of their churches was responsible for the biggest Covid hotspot in the county. They were utterly contemptuous of county health officials and continued to congregate.

[Quote]least 70 people at the Bethany Slavic Missionary Church were infected with Covid-19.

[Quote]He said he named the church "not to cast aspersions on anybody but to really hammer home the importance of not congregating, not only in church but also in prayer gatherings in people's homes." It is one of the largest outbreak clusters of the virus in the US.

[Quote]However, the church released a statement Friday saying media reports about the Covid-19 outbreak were "inaccurate and falsely place emphasis on this church." The church also said it hadn't been informed any of its parishioners had died as reported by a local newspaper.

[Quote]Beilenson told the Sacramento Bee Thursday that church leaders had "basically told us to leave them alone," adding "this is extremely irresponsible and dangerous for the community."

And they make American Baptist homophobes look pretty tolerant. These youngsters were at a church picnic!

[Quote]Singh, a 26-year-old worker at the AT&T call center in Sacramento, was attacked while picnicking at Lake Natoma with friends in July 2007. His attackers, authorities say, were Russian and Slavic immigrants believed to have ties to Sacramento's virulently anti-gay, Slavic evangelical movement. Singh was first verbally then physically assaulted because the perpetrators perceived him to be gay, according to the Sacramento Sheriff's Department's arrest report. He died four days later at a local hospital, having never regained consciousness.

[Quote]One of those arrested, Alexsander Schevchenko, 22, was sentenced to 150 days in county jail after being found guilty on two misdemeanor charges. But Andrey Vusik, 30, identified as the man who threw the fatal punch, fled the country following Singh's death.

r143, Where do you go to meet men? IOW, where can I go in Edison to meet hot Indians? I go there for business a couple of times a year. What's your favorite restaurant?

R159 Haha, sorry I moved after high school. You probably know better than me

I liked pizza delizia and singha's pizza. And I think the sub shop there is famous, I don't know why though

So is the "Guindian" thing true R143? Or did my friend make that up?

[quote] Here in the Sacramento area, one of their churches was responsible for the biggest Covid hotspot in the county. They were utterly contemptuous of county health officials and continued to congregate.

Fucking russians are disgusting scum trash.

We should completely BAN them from ever entering our country.

I fucking hate russians with the heat of 10,000 suns!!!!

Most of them are middle class, lots of gujaratis/patels. My neighbor was a bank teller, husband was a night time mover, other neighbor was a kindergarten teacher. Not really similar to guidos, but they did try to copy black culture. Lots of their kids did drugs and drank alcohol behind their parents back. The smarter, higher achieving indians lived in a better area like west windsor.

[quote]Hondurans in New Orleans

Is that worse than Hondas in a BMW or Benz neighborhood?

Lots of Chinese in San Francisco.

Rofl R165.

Did you know the sky is blue, also?

R160, Oh GOD the sub shop is the best Edison can do? I'll just stay at Sheraton. I once took an Uber to see the Edison Tower for a minute. Something about it was very appealing to me.

"Scots Irish" have infested my area forever. They don't even consider themselves an "ethnic group," but they're different. I'm being polite by not calling them hillbillies.

What r162 said. If you've ever had any dealings with Russians, they are total fucking scum. Just trash.

Indians assimilate quickly. The American-born kids of Indian immigrant parents are 100% culturally American.

[quote] If you've ever had any dealings with Russians, they are total fucking scum. Just trash.

Russian people is not trash! Russian people are having many classy diamonds and furs for the coats and buy Clinique.

"Indians assimilate quickly. The American-born kids of Indian immigrant parents are 100% culturally American."

Even the American born Indian kid won't dare marry outside his/her caste. The caste system is one of the most repulsive system of oppression that exists and continues to flourish today.

r172 they're still Americans. Who gives a fuck who they marry?

R173 Guess you missed the point about complete assimilation. But you type like a stupid asshole, so no surprise there.

And if they’re gay Americans, R172? How’s that work, given that this is a gay site and all?

Lol R175 the gay ones will get married to the same caste woman their momma picks out for them.

In fact, sometimes the gay Indians bring their wives on a honeymoon in South Africa and pay to have the wife killed...At least this gay Indian found the love of his life after killing his wife.

You’re telling us what Americans do and support the argument with a story about what Brits do?

Please. Do better.

[quote] Vietnamese in Houston and Orange County.

And Vietnamese in Mississippi too. They built a Buddhist temple in Biloxi, MS, and even a monastery (one of Thich Nhat Hanh's called "Magnolia "Grove") in Batesville, MS. They live mostly in the southern part of the state and came because of the shrimping and other fishing, after the war.

I WAS BORN ON THE CORNER OF SANTA MONICA AND DOHENY WHEN IT WAS A FUCKING FARM!

* nix the middle quotes

First generation Indians tend to marry each other, but so do other ethnic groups. It doesn't mean they're not culturally American.

R176 Damn. That Brazilian hunk could do much better than that Indian Uncle.

Check out this fantastic Hindu temple in Chino Hills (San Bernardino Co.), CA.

Chin refugees in Indianapolis

Gotta love how R7 (there’s always one) automatically assumes OP has racist intentions, and attempts to tease it out. YES R7: OP needs this information so we can all draw up ghetto and gassing lists. You’re welcome!

The Somalis in Minnesota weren’t resettled by the government. It was wholly an initiative of the Lutheran Church. Rather sadistic given the climate.

I take the (unfashionable) view that in all cases refugees should be settled in the countries closest to them for swifter and cheaper integration. For every $1,000 spent in a first world country on resettling a refugee, you could resettle several if you gave that money to a third world country. Over their entire lifetime a single refugee in a first world country costs it about $500k - $1million in govt support — and there are no good studies on the outcome in terms of integration and mental health. In terms of bang for buck, and cohesive societies, it’s not great, but thanks to UN and NGO pressure it’s become a fashion. The paradigm needs to be changed, and changed soon, because we can’t resettle the entire peoples of Africa and the Middle East — the majority of whom wish to relocate.

[Quote]Over their entire lifetime a single refugee in a first world country costs it about $500k - $1million in govt support —

Link please.

R185 I'm not sure that the whole population of Africa want to resettle in Western Countries, It's quite a diverse place and lots of people have very nice lives, many return home after emigrating.

The Middle East has contains lots of Countries that are incredibly wealthy, I doubt the inhabitants of those are queuing for visas or boarding refugee dinghy's either.

Lots of Indians in Mumbai

Tons of Cubans in Florida.

R187, Many of those rich Middle Eastern countries have wealth concentrated at the top, usually at the hands of their hereditary rulers, political leaders and their partners. Most of the people, however, live below the poverty line and would probably leave if given the opportunity.

R190 The only people living below the poverty line in rich Middle Eastern Countries are the immigrant manual workers, they are treated like shit.

I was watching a police update about the Miami building crash and was surprised that they had a Haitian Creole interpreter take a turn to translate the report (along with the expected Spanish one).

R192, Little Haiti (Lemon City):

The Armenians and Greeks of Watertown, MA. Forever united in their searing hatred for the Ottoman conquerors of Asia Minor. (Never say “Turkey”. It’s verboten.)

Greeks and Armenians were treated horrifyingly by the Ottomans.

R195, as were the Assyrians.

Palm Springs is overrun with Andorrans.

Vulcans too, r197.

We have an enclave of Eastern Europeans in my area of South Carolina, because of the large nuclear facility near here.

Germans and Czechs in Texas hill country.

Orientals.

[Quote]Orientals.

Where?? Want to stay clear of there!

Basques in Boise, Idaho.

Basques in Bakersfield, CA

R199 I do think it's a shame that those poor communists are forced to slave away at those nuclear power plants just so real Americans are spared those tasks.

R205 LOL, they are highly paid engineers and scientists.

Up my arse

[quote]Palm Springs is overrun with Andorrans.

Don't forget the Endorrans a few blocks over.