You have to take those figures with a grain of salt, especially now since the census lets you define yourself.
I know a man whos parents who’s family goes back centuries in Japan, his parents moved to Mexico city and he was born there, to two people who are Japanese, whos families go back centuries in Japan, yet he says he’s latino.
I know lots of Mexicans who are 100% Indian or Native America who claim latino, because it’s cooler to be latino than Native American (or Indian), even though they aer pure blooded Indians with no latin blood in them
I know a lot of Poles who families were German and when the boundaries shifted after WWII they didn’t move.
There are 15,000 Ethiopians Officially in the DC area. The Ethiopian Embassy and Immigration specialists claim that there are between 80,000 and 120,000 Ethiopians in the Washington DC area “unofficially” and unabashedly call it the U.S.'s largest community.
This cite calls it the largest concentration of Ethiopians outside of Ethiopia. I am not sure if The Them has better cites for their contention that “Washington, D.C.” has the highest level because alot of these Ethiopians are in the MD/VA suburbs as well (as anyone who eats out or parks their car in a public lot will testify). IMO I think the evidence is solid that:
“The Ethiopians Embassy and local Ethiopians contend that Greater Washington D.C. area has more Ethiopians than any place outside of Ethiopia” (in this Press release an Ethiopian Cultural group they say outside of Addis Ababa) - but maybe *Greater *DC does not equal DC for the purposes of the OP.
Maybe the unofficial numbers is what fuels the claims of places like Dearborn too?
You’ll see the sources if you Google “largest * population outside” - I just read down the list and grabbed off whatever caught my eye.
I deny any fixation on Armenians, Finns, kangaroos, etc.
I’ve heard that Buffalo had the largest population of Poles outside of Warsaw, but I believe suuch boasting is catering to the ignorance of those who are unaware of Chicago’s existence.
Charlotte, North Carolina supposedly has the largest population of Buffalonians outside of Buffalo. I’ve heard the claim that Mecklenberg County, North Carolina has more Buffalonians than any of Buffalo’s suburbs, but I find it hard to believe. Maybe more than all but the largest 'burbs, perhaps.
Well, of course the census is self-reporting, but it’s the best data we have.
What the hell does that matter? They’re still Mexicans if they were born in Mexico.
And what the hell is “latin blood”? Is that what causes babies to come out of the womb speaking Latin?
I’m curious to know, as well: How do you know all these Mexicans are %100 Indian, if they tell you they’re Latino? Do you do genealogical background checks on them behind their backs? You must have a lot of time on your hands.
jjimmy, pardon my levity. Actually, I wouldn’t stake my life on any of these numbers.(Doug’s “kangaroos/Australia” might be accurate )
Here’s what I got for Bosnians - and some others: Matches what the local papers say and this.
It seems that New York has 69k, Dearborn has 29k and LA has 26k. So while Dear born is a much much more density of population, it is only the second largest total in the US.
Another interesting thing is how much more percentage though. The highest percentage for a city over 100k is 3.6% just down the road in Sterling Heights. Dearborn, just missing with only 98k, has 29.85% So some of the confusion is understandable.
(Moving a post here which I posted in the thread linked to by the OP.)
My input is that one should be careful with such statements. There are some really big (population-wise) cities on the Philippines; the second one, after Manila, is Davao, with a population of 1.7 million in the city according to Wiki, and then comes Cebu with about 800,000, most of which, I guess, are Filipino (the Philippines are no major immigrant destination). If you count metropolitan area instead of the city proper, you get 3.7 million for Davao and 2 million for Cebu. I know that Los Angeles is big, and I know there are many Filipinos there, but I don’t believe its Filipino population matches these numbers.
Same for the statement on Polish people in Chicago. The second largest city in Poland, Krakow, has a population of 750,000 (again, Wiki), and I don’t think Chicago can boost that many Polish.
The second largest city of Greece, Thessaloniki, has a population of 360,000, which easily exceeds the numbers provided for Sydney (I know that you can’t equal the population of a city with the number of people of a given ethnic origin, but I think it’s fair to assume that the major part of people living in Krakow or Thessaloniki is of Polish, or Greek respectively, ethnicity, even given the free movement of persons within the EU).
These statements are easily made by people who want to underpin the urbanity and the cosmopolitan character of their cities, but that doesn’t necessarily make them true.
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