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My hometown, Oxon Hill - and neighboring Fort Washington, Maryland, actually has a Nursing home just for the Filipino population, as well as a large Filipino community center, and a huge Catholic church that's most Filipino and with Filipino priests, and a Filipino judge, and State assemblly delegate. We have had Filipino's since the 1950s.
And yet, few people in the greater Washington DC area, including the local news media, are even aware of this Filipino community or give it any attention. Compared with other recent immigrant groups, Filipino's seem to be rather invisible and their cultural transition seamless, since they have pre-existing cultural ties with the U.S. through involvement in the U.S. Navy and exposure to the English language as a former U.S. colonial country, before arriving here.
There's a lot of Fillipinos in parts of Washington especially Seattle and it's suburbs. There's a number in Oregon as well, though not as many as Washington State.
I've read that Juneau, Alaska has a Fillipino community going back to the early part of the 20th Century.
I grew up with lots of Fillipino-American kids in Santa Cruz, California who I actually never realized were Fillipino until years later. They never talked about their ethnicity and depending on their names, I always assumed they were Hispanic or Chinese.
Huge Filipino population (relatively) in Juneau. Officially listed at about 3 1/2 percent of the population, I would swear it's triple that.
There are a lot in Munford, Millington, and Bartlett TN, suburbs of Memphis. The first two are somewhat rural. Millington & Bartlett even have Filipino restaurants
I read that Filipino Americans are the second-largest Asian American ethnicity in the United States (Chinese Americans being the first). They are concentrated in California and Hawaii, but they live all across the United States. I'll give an example.
There were two Filipino families who settled in a nearby town (I live in Mississippi) back in the 1960s. They became quite affluent because the family patriarchs are doctors. There are also Filipinas who have worked as contract nurses at the local hospitals. They stay for a couple of years then move on, with new ones taking their place. They usually share an apartment or two. All of them attend my church if their work schedules don't interfere.
Are you aware of communities in your area?
God bless,
CKB
Quick question since it usually seems like you know alot about history.
During the colonial period, did Filipinos have the right to immigrate to the United States as Puerto Ricans still do today? How much immigration from the Phillipines happened prior to the post war de-colonization? If it was significant, does anyone know where their earlier pre-independence communities mainly were?
Quick question since it usually seems like you know alot about history.
During the colonial period, did Filipinos have the right to immigrate to the United States as Puerto Ricans still do today? How much immigration from the Phillipines happened prior to the post war de-colonization? If it was significant, does anyone know where their earlier pre-independence communities mainly were?
California - 1,195,580
Hawaii - 197,497
Illinois - 114-724
New Jersey - 110,650
By percentage, Hawaii would be #1 at 14.5% of the population, with Nevada being #2 at 3.6% of the population and California being #3 at 3.2% of the population.
I always thought the state with the largest Philippino population was NJ
Not even close.
California is where its at.
Fillipino's there are the largest Asian group by far. Almost as common as Hispanics.
Places like Long Beach, Carson, & Daley City have HUGE Filipino populations.
Staes with the largest Fillipino populations:
1. California - 1,474,707
2. Hawaii - 342,095
3. Illinois - 139,090
4. Texas - 137,713
5. Washington - 137,083
6. New Jersey - 126,793
7. New York - 126,129
8. Nevada - 123,891
9. Florida - 122,691
10. Virginia - 90,493
Last edited by Metro Matt; 08-20-2012 at 08:55 PM..
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