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Asian Californians are residents of the state of California who are of Asian ancestry. California has the largest Asian American population in the United States, and second highest proportion of Asian American residents, after Hawaii. As of the 2020 US census, there were over 6 million Asian Americans in California; 15.5% of the state's ...
Gary Locke, elected the first Asian American governor in the mainland United States in November 1996 and became Governor of Washington in January 1997. John Liu, became the first Asian American elected to the New York City Council (representing Flushing, Queens) in 2001. Kinjiro Matsudaira, mayor of Edmonston, Maryland, in 1927 and 1943
Hazel Ying Lee (李月英) – first Chinese American woman to earn a pilot's license; flew for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II as a Woman Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) Kurt Lee – Major, US Marine Corps.; first Asian American Marine Corps officer, Navy Cross recipient [7] [8]
The Chinese are the largest Asian American subgroup in San Francisco. [2] San Francisco has the highest percentage of residents of Chinese descent of any major U.S. city, and the second largest Chinese American population, after New York City. The San Francisco Area is 7.9% Chinese American, with many residents in Oakland and Santa Clara County.
California's first state-legislated Southeast Asian model curriculum aims to change that. ... About 1 in 10 Asian Americans lives in poverty, but that rate is 17% of Hmong Americans and doubles to ...
Vince Fong, the son of Chinese immigrants, is the first Asian American to represent California’s 20th district in Congress. McCarthy’s congressional replacement brings Asian representation to ...
Indonesian Americans are migrants from the multiethnic country of Indonesia to the United States, and their U.S.-born descendants. [3] In both the 2000 and 2010 United States census, they were the 15th largest group of Asian Americans recorded in the United States as well as one of the fastest growing. [4] [5] [6]
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