Jewish communities anywhere outside Israel would count, right? E.g., New York?
What about African-Americans?
Here on the MS Gulf Coast we have a sizable population of Vietnamese. They came here as refugees in the 1970s, and as many of them were Boat People, they simply set up shop as shrimpers and fishermen on the Gulf Coast. During Hurricane Katrina, some Vietnamese shrimpers rescued a Cajun shrimper and his wife who’d been stranded during the storm.
There is also a very small but very old Jewish community in Mississippi. The Jews flourished here for many years, especially on the Delta; there were Jews who fought for the Confederacy, Jews elected to high public office (for example Sam Rosenthal, who served as mayor of Rolling Fork for 40 years), and a Jewish woman, Jane Wexler, was the second queen of the Natchez Pilgrimage in 1932 (this articlehas some information on their history plus a photo of Wexler in her gorgeous ballgown). The Jewish community was active in supporting the Civil Rights movement, and they were attacked by some of KKK and other white supremacist organizations because of it. The Jews began leaving MS around that time, and today there’s only 300 Jews on the Mississippi Delta. Jackson has most of the rest of the Jewish population, which amounts to less than 2,000 people.
I had to google that just to find out what the Natchez Pilgrimage was. I was expecting some kind of Spanish migration, or celebration of Spanish migration, but it’s a tour of mansions?
And a very small one in Yemen too.
There’s a group of a mixed-ancestry folks out in Appalachians… Melungeons.
Apparently I’m marrying one, which was news to both of us. Thanks, local community college presentation!
Mississipienne - I saw an interesting documentary you may want to look for some time called Delta Jews.
Desert Nomad - The Yemeni Jewish population used to be quite a bit larger. Most of them have relocated to Israel. The Yemeni-Israeli population is a not insignificant group in Israel.
Oh, I just remembered that I’ve also met Irish and Scottish Jews. Both of those were surprising. The Scottish guy was an Israeli immigrant, and when we met he was wearing an Israeli army uniform. It took me like ten minutes to place his accent; the clothes were really throwing me off.
Here in SE Michigan we have a large Arab population.
Caffeine.addict beat me to it! When I was a teenager living in Brazil/Uruguay, the family I stayed with were from a German town that still had a large number of German speakers. The dad had been instructed in German in school- this would have been the 1960s. The German influence was really apparent with the food and the names of the different businesses, though I can’t for the life of me remember the name of the city- it was in Rio Grande do Sul state, though. They had family who lived in a town settled by Italians, and nearly everyone still spoke it. Brazil is a country a lot like the USA, with the non-indigenous population made up of people from everywhere.
I am also Melungeon and of Mestee descent; some of the surnames on that side of my family are TALLEY (TN), COX, BRITT, IVEY, CHAVIS (NC). There seems to be some overlap on my maternal grandfather’s side with Melungeons and Lumbees (a similar Mestee group that identifies as Indian).
Indian, S Asian dishes that are sold as such in the West are often unknown in their “native” lands.
In Islamabad there is a restaurant which specializes in English style Indian food.
I’ve heard that in America there is a “half Filipino, half African American” minority group. Apparently to be respected by other Filipino/African Americans, they should have two parents who both are half and half, rather than one Filipino parent and one African American parent.
How about Punjabi Mexican American and Chinese Jamaicans?
Winner.
Wow, the article mentions that Naomi Campbell is Chinese Jamaican.
I think I was watching Anthony Bourdain having Chinese food in Calcutta and I see that Wikipediaconfirms this I guess that’s no surprise because Chinese are all over the frickin’ place.
Historically, there were a few Jewish communities in China - in Harbin, in Kiafeng, and in Shanghai.
Parsi community in India produced legendary freedom fighters and business men like TATAs.
Freddie mercury was also a parsi.
Both Malaysia and Singapore also have significant minority Indian populations, too (also Chinese, for that matter).
In NZ and Australia, there are sizeable minority groups of Chinese, Vietnamese, Pacific Islanders, Greeks, and many others, too.
gytalf2000 already mentioned parsis in post # 14.
Sorry about that , some how missed that post before making #35.
There was a book I read once- I think it was called “White Tribes” that talked about various white non-colonial communities living in various parts of the world. It was pretty interesting.
I’ve read some interesting articles about people of African descent living in Iraq. They are the descendants of slaves from back in the day. From what I remember, they are apparently pretty well integrated and nobody really worries that they are black.
I doubt you’re thinking of Candido Godoi, but they are a small community who are mostly originally descended from like 20 families from the same German community. Apparently there was a high incidence of twins in those families, and the relative isolation of the village makes them have the highest twin-rates in the world.
Kaifeng evidence is pretty dubious. Shanghai were Russian Revolution or ww2 refugees. I suspect Harbin was the same. Shanghaiese jewish community all left during the Chinese Revolution. That said, we still have 2 formerly Jewish synogogues that are now restaurants.