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Seaside Heights is a borough situated on the Jersey Shore, within Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 2,440, [10] a decrease of 447 (−15.5%) from the 2010 census count of 2,887, [19] [20] which in turn had reflected a decline of 268 (−8.5%) from the 3,155 counted in the 2000 census. [21]
The South Asian diaspora, also known as the Desi diaspora, [1] is the group of people whose ancestral origins lie in South Asia, but who live outside the region. [2] There are over 44 million people in this diaspora.
In the United States, South Asian Americans have had a presence since the 1700s, emigrating from British India.Classically, they were known as East Indians or Hindoos (regardless of whether they were followers of Hinduism or not) in North America to differentiate them from the Native Americans, who were also known as Indians, as well as from Black West Indians.
South Asians had been present in colonial America since at least 1635 with the recording of an East Indian man named "Tony" in the Colony of Virginia. They were brought over as indentured servants and sometimes slaves who eventually assimilated into the dominant white and black American populations. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Southeast Asian Americans are Americans of Southeast Asian ancestry. The term refers to those who can trace back their heritage to Southeast Asia, which includes the countries of Brunei , Cambodia , East Timor , Indonesia , Laos , Malaysia , Myanmar , Philippines , Singapore , Thailand , and Vietnam .
SEASIDE HEIGHTS - No progress has been made on the 10-story Boulevard building that borough officials hoped would jumpstart development in the area, and now Seaside Heights wants answers. "We are ...
At least 18 figures — more than a dozen horses, a lion and a tiger — on the Seaside carousel were made by Dentzel between the 1890s and 1910 in Philadelphia, according to a carousel history ...
The Columbia Guide to Asian American History (2001) online edition excerpt and text search; Okihiro, Gary Y. Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture (University of Washington Press, 2014) Takaki, Ronald Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans New York: Little, Brown, 1998. ISBN 978-0-316-83130-7