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I'm not sure how relevant that is. The asian-american percentage is quite small, and is relatively modern. There are a lot few traditional places for asians to

I'm not sure how relevant that is. The asian-american percentage is quite small, and is relatively modern. There are a lot few traditional places for asians to go to, as there are for blacks, for example. It's like saying - what's the segregation level of romanian-americans. Black people, jewish people, hispanics have more traditional places where there are already large concentrations, and where they are more likely to move to, leading to the geographical racial imbalance.

CWuestefeld 16y ago
is relatively modern I don't know how true that is. In the middle of the 19th century, piles of Chinese were used as low-cost labor to build the railroads. (And were, generally, treated far worse than the black slaves because the latter were property assets that needed to be preserved, whereas Chinese men could still be imported and paid a subsistence wage) A century ago, Americans were arguing about the Chinese "immigration problem". Governments were passing laws preventing them from competing with native-born (white?) Americans for jobs, so great was their influx perceived to be.
- maxklein 16y ago
  Those particular chinese are an insignificantly tiny percentage of modern U.S.A.
  - oiuytrfiuytre 16y ago
    But they do form a a large proportion in those areas where they do live. The previous poster's comment that black descendants of slaves may have a different point from modern economic immigrants - many chinese immigrants on the west coast are the descendants of similarly unfortunate C19 workers.
    - maxklein 16y ago
      Come on, why don't you just look it up? By 1950, there were 150,005 chinese in the U.S, which is 0.1% of the population. In 1980, there were 812,178, which is 0.36%. By 2004, there were 3,353,486, which is 1.17%. Source here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_American_history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_American_history Even in the area with a large % of chinese americans, the percentage hovers around 1%. Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_Population_USA.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_Population_USA.jpg They don't form a large population. It's a very small population that did not have much of a chance to form large ghettos. Chinatowns could be formed (they are much smaller), and they WERE formed. The whole premise of this argumentation is wrong. First, the population is very low, and secondly, chinatowns do exist everywhere.

CWuestefeld 16y ago

is relatively modern I don't know how true that is. In the middle of the 19th century, piles of Chinese were used as low-cost labor to build the railroads. (And were, generally, treated far worse than the black slaves because the latter were property assets that needed to be preserved, whereas Chinese men could still be imported and paid a subsistence wage) A century ago, Americans were arguing about the Chinese "immigration problem". Governments were passing laws preventing them from competing with native-born (white?) Americans for jobs, so great was their influx perceived to be.

maxklein 16y ago
Those particular chinese are an insignificantly tiny percentage of modern U.S.A.
- oiuytrfiuytre 16y ago
  But they do form a a large proportion in those areas where they do live. The previous poster's comment that black descendants of slaves may have a different point from modern economic immigrants - many chinese immigrants on the west coast are the descendants of similarly unfortunate C19 workers.
  - maxklein 16y ago
    Come on, why don't you just look it up? By 1950, there were 150,005 chinese in the U.S, which is 0.1% of the population. In 1980, there were 812,178, which is 0.36%. By 2004, there were 3,353,486, which is 1.17%. Source here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_American_history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_American_history Even in the area with a large % of chinese americans, the percentage hovers around 1%. Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_Population_USA.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_Population_USA.jpg They don't form a large population. It's a very small population that did not have much of a chance to form large ghettos. Chinatowns could be formed (they are much smaller), and they WERE formed. The whole premise of this argumentation is wrong. First, the population is very low, and secondly, chinatowns do exist everywhere.