Why So Many Asians Date Other Asians

Published: June 8, 2007, 1:18 am

by Terry Dip If you walk around LA, you’ll see lots of Asian couples. Look closer and if you can tell the difference, you’ll see that these couples are of not only the Asian race but the same Asian ethnicity. For a city known worldwide for its cultural diversity, LA has many monoethnic Asian couples. Nothing wrong with that, but there are specific reasons for it. Even today, it is true to a certain degree that the Asian communities of LA are segregated. Being Asian, I know Asians prefer to live with their own ethnicity. In LA, there exist a Chinatown, a Koreatown, a Little Tokyo, a Filipino Town, a Thai Town, and a myriad of others. Beyond this, certain districts are implicitly known as the territories of specific ethnic groups. Carson has an incredibly high Filipino population, and Monterey Park is primarily Chinese. Commonalities in language, culture, history, and food are the main reasons Thais stay in Thai Town, Koreans stay in Koreatown, and so on. The desire to work

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