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Even non-Thai restaurants may include Thai-influenced dishes on their menu like Pad Thai and Thai tea. Thai culture's prominence in the United States is disproportionate to their numbers. The stationing of American troops in Thailand during the Vietnam War exposed the GIs to Thai culture and cuisine, and many of them came home with Thai wives.
The first South Asian immigrants landed in the United States in 1907, and were predominantly Punjabi Sikh farmers. As immigration restrictions specific to South Asians would begin two years later and against Asians generally eight years after that, "[a]ltogether only sixty-four hundred came to America" during this period. [28]
The number of Asian immigrants to the United States "grew from 491,000 in 1960 to about 12.8 million in 2014, representing a 2,597 percent increase." [102] Asian Americans were the fastest-growing racial group between 2000 and 2010. [79] [103] By 2012, more immigrants came from Asia than from Latin America. [104]
By RYAN GORMAN America proudly calls itself a melting pot, but the lines of skilled immigrants coming to the country are not quite as long as they once were, a new study has revealed. The U.S ...
In 2024, 46% of all Fortune 500 companies — including all 10 of the most valuable public companies in the US — were either founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants or employed an ...
These individuals make up one-quarter of all immigrants who have arrived in the U.S. since 1965, and 59% of Asian Americans are foreign-born. [6] During the 2010 United States census the largest ethnic groups were Chinese American, Filipino Americans, Indian Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Korean Americans, and Japanese Americans. [7]
Ocha Classic in Koreatown is a Thai restaurant beloved by Central Americans, Mexicans and Latinos.
Note: Since immigrants from Mexico have been the largest group for a long time and have spread throughout the country perhaps more than any other nationality in recent times, Mexican-American enclaves are far more numerous than this list would suggest. Altus, Oklahoma [336] Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California (gentrifying). [337]