mike88
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Post by mike88 on Sept 19, 2008 22:50:44 GMT -5
I'm from NY which is a cultural melting pot and i have seen and met a handful of eurasians. I know more are out there and i would like to definitely meet more. But tell me where are most eurasians situated in the world?
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Post by straylight on Sept 20, 2008 3:47:44 GMT -5
Not many where I am either. If this site is any indication, there's a bunch in NZ or Aus.
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Post by mike88 on Sept 20, 2008 17:06:43 GMT -5
yeah i guess wherever there is a dense asian population there is bound to be eurasians. But i think your right in places like California and Hawaii, because asians are more of the norm and accepted thats why theres a greater population of Eurasians
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Post by alphamikefoxtrot on Sept 21, 2008 3:50:30 GMT -5
Hawaii, yes, probably more EAs than you can shake a stick at. Lots of very mixed people there beyond just half-asian half-caucasian variety, though.
California is sort of varied. I'd say So Cal probably has a higher population of EAs than if you went further north, until you hit the SF Bay Area, then it drops off sharply any further north than that.
I dunno. We turn up in different places. I don't think I've seen an EA where I live -- it's predominantly Mexican in my particular section of town. I've gotten a few "hey, papi!" ;D
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Post by mrxcloudyxloc on Sept 21, 2008 4:41:02 GMT -5
Definitely the Islands being 1st and Cali being second. At least as far as the states go.
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Post by mike88 on Sept 21, 2008 12:08:36 GMT -5
Outside of the states i hear Singapore and thailand are big on eurasian population too, is that true
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Post by jefe on Sept 23, 2008 12:12:26 GMT -5
yeah i guess wherever there is a dense asian population there is bound to be eurasians. But i think your right in places like California and Hawaii, because asians are more of the norm and accepted thats why theres a greater population of Eurasians There has to be BOTH dense Asian and dense caucasian populations simultaneously in the same geographical area, with little cultural / legal barrier to interrelationships and particularly if their is some gender imbalance. Sichuan, China has a dense Asian population, but you will not see many Eurasians running the streets. California had *relatively* dense Asian populations from the mid-19th century to the 3rd quarter of the 20th century, and until the 1950s, a very large gender imbalance of predominately males. However, due to social and legal barriers, there were never that many Eurasians born during that time period. It was only after miscegenation was outlawed that such relationships had a chance to expand, but was counterbalanced by the lifting of the immigration ban on bringing Asian wives to the USA. Hawaii never had the legal and social barriers of the mainland USA, and has had a significant EA population for over 100 years. Single European men have travelled to Asian colonial ports for centuries, and there had been large Eurasian communities in Indonesia, Macau, Philippines, India, and Vietnam (during the French period). Even HK had a very distinct EA community before the 1960s. However, many of these EA communities are no longer very visible, in large part because they no longer serve any purpose (ie, as middle men between natives and colonialists). In HK, as ethnic Chinese became educated in English and went overseas for education, EAs really serve little social purpose. I believe that in places like Macau, they will be completely gone in 2-3 generations. China has forced Macanese to identify themselves as Chinese or as Portuguese, which will only accelerate the assimilation. When the Netherlands left Indonesia, many of the EAs relocated to Holland. Another case of dense contact with a gender imbalance and limited social barriers to relationships are places near military bases. Indeed, for the past 60 years, Amerasian has been a common phenomenon in both Asia and in the USA. In western countries with large ethnic Asian populations, you will see it arising from either cultural disassociation of the ethnic Asian with Asian cultures (ie, high degree of assimilation) or for purposes of greater social mobility (where non-Asian populations carry much more social prestige).
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Post by dead0baby0chick on Oct 4, 2008 19:44:25 GMT -5
In Kazakhstan, I'd imagine.
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Post by long on Oct 4, 2008 21:57:18 GMT -5
There was a group of Kazak exchange students at my school, I was asked by members of their group on multiple occasions if I was Kazak/from the region. They definitely look EA.
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Post by halfbreed on Oct 5, 2008 2:08:43 GMT -5
Isn't like everyone in the Phillipines pretty much Eurasian?
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Post by mike88 on Oct 5, 2008 18:31:15 GMT -5
kazakstan i would have never thought why so
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Post by mike88 on Oct 5, 2008 18:33:08 GMT -5
yeah i thought the phillipines, thailand, and singapore have big eurasian populations
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Post by dead0baby0chick on Oct 5, 2008 19:46:25 GMT -5
kazakstan i would have never thought why so Just seems the most logical...looking at what the population generally looks like, and the geographic placement of the country.
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Post by catgirl on Oct 10, 2008 16:58:12 GMT -5
Russia, Kazakstan and countries like that?
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Post by toyomansi on Oct 14, 2008 8:29:26 GMT -5
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