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The list includes Issei (一世, "first generation") Japanese-born immigrants from Japan, and those who are multigenerational Japanese Americans.Cities considered to have significant Japanese American populations are large U.S. cities or municipalities with a critical mass of at least 1.0% of the total urban population; medium-sized cities with a critical mass of at least 2.0% of the total ...
Japanese Americans (Japanese: 日系アメリカ人) are Americans of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Americans were among the three largest Asian American ethnic communities during the 20th century; but, according to the 2000 census, they have declined in ranking to constitute the sixth largest Asian American group at around 1,469,637, including those of partial ancestry.
The demographics of Asian Americans describe a heterogeneous group of people in the United States who trace their ancestry to one or more Asian countries. [1] [2] [3] Manilamen began to reside in Louisiana as the first Asian Americans to live in the continental in the United States. [4] Most Asian Americans have arrived after 1965. [5]
As of 2010, of the Asian ethnic groups, 70% of Japanese Americans were born in the U.S., the highest such rate of the ethnic groups. 19% of Japanese Americans were senior citizens, the highest such rate of the ethnic groups. From 2000-2010 the Japanese Americans increased by 1%, the lowest such rate of the ethnic groups. [16]
Japanese people of American-Jewish descent (2 P) Pages in category "Japanese people of American descent" The following 114 pages are in this category, out of 114 ...
Since the time of the last major wave of Jewish immigration to America (over 2,000,000 Jews from Eastern Europe who arrived between 1890 and 1924), Jewish secular culture in the United States has become integrated in almost every important way with the broader American culture. Many aspects of Jewish American culture have, in turn, become part ...
This total represents a decline from the 1990 NJPS, which estimated a total Jewish population of 5.5 million people. Jews who have married since 1996 have an intermarriage rate of 47%. [1] There is disagreement about how to define who is Jewish. As part of the 2000 NJPS, a Jew was defined as a person: Whose religion is Jewish, or
A third significant minority is the Asian American population, which comprised 19.36 million people, or 5.9% of the US population, in 2019. [54] In 2019, 6.12 million Asian Americans lived in California. [51] As of 2019, approximately 532,300 Asians live in Hawaii, forming 37.6% of the islands' people. [50]