愛爾蘭出生的華人的網上日誌
Was in Florida last week. Really nice, but what I wanted to write about here is that I did not see many local Asian people in the area of Florida I was at (Port St. John, by the way). Come to think of it, I hardly saw many Asian tourists in Seaworld, Space Kennedy Centre and Universal Studios. There were some groups, but not in droves.
I know that Hong Kong are getting more tourists now, are are recovering very well (which is good news), as they are attracting many mainland Chinese to go to Hong Kong.
But it is wierd to hear many other Chinese people speak Cantonese in Newark airport while I was waiting to get my connecting flight back to Dublin, and coming back to Dublin, and all you would mainly hear is Mandarin. I really have to try and learn that some day!
When I visited, I hardly saw any asians there too. It was either hispanics or whites.
I believe majority of the asians are in California and New York areas. Perhaps, that is just my silly mind coming into play.
Asians are mostly to be found in the big, northern cities, like Boston, New York, Chicago, etc. Immigration to the west coast occurred in several waves -- first those Asians brought to work the railroads and farms of Central California, then the IT boom in Silicon Valley brought another lot over.
Is the Chinese population in Dublin a more recent phenom?
The Chinese here (San Francisco) are an older community. Lots don't even speak Chinese. As for Florida, there are a few around NASA (Cape Canaveral), but for some reason, I didn't see them in Miami either (nor did I see any Indians, which struck me as very odd, being from London)
Posted by: Hasan Diwan on October 16, 2005 02:46 AM