tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post1287870890786042867..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Asians hate MiamiUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41245162829062985162014-11-14T16:44:02.797-08:002014-11-14T16:44:02.797-08:00Just to let you know, Filipinos tend to be more we...Just to let you know, Filipinos tend to be more welcome in Miami because they are like Hispanics, culture-wise, than any other Asian. The climate and architecture in Miami is similar to that in the Philippines which is why a lot of Filipinos would be found there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65028243223637042014-04-23T02:08:01.085-07:002014-04-23T02:08:01.085-07:00Surprised it wasn't mentioned but rich Asians ...Surprised it wasn't mentioned but rich Asians go to Hawaii and Guam. Folk forget Hawaii is basically Far Far Eastern Asia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71203730008925002602014-04-21T15:56:41.309-07:002014-04-21T15:56:41.309-07:00Hmm, maybe so.
I was really hoping Steve would ha...Hmm, maybe so.<br /><br />I was really hoping Steve would have something to say, what with the interest he showed some months back in the demographics of natl merit semifinalists in California. <br /><br />Well, here's a theory that doesn't require any qualitative difference between California and Florida Asians: where Asians are a bigger fraction of the overall testtaking population, the NMS cutoff rises (and indeed it's 8 points higher in CA now), and the higher it goes, the greater the ratio of areas under the tails of the bell curves of Asians and Whites.<br /><br />Then again, it could be something else ;-) International Jewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89407762112755381362014-04-20T21:05:10.609-07:002014-04-20T21:05:10.609-07:00And such East Asians go to New York and California...<i>And such East Asians go to New York and California.</i><br /><br />Increasingly Northern Virginia rather than New York and California.<br /><br />Don't ya know the best public high school in the country is Thomas Jefferson in Annandale, VA? (Annandale is NoVA's "Koreatown.")<br /><br />And I write this as a graduate of Stuyvesant HS, the premier "specialized" magnet school in NYC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21896862386183470442014-04-20T21:02:48.356-07:002014-04-20T21:02:48.356-07:00y guess is that Asians are able to more easily wor...<i>y guess is that Asians are able to more easily work the systems in California than in Florida. For starters a new Asian would find that there are more people of their same race there, and they love plugging into racial networks that benefit them (seems whites of Christian background are the only ones 'forbidden' to do this). But even without this, the Cuban-dominated networks of Miami would not be as easy to break into for an Asian as would be a situation like LA where there are many different ethnic networks going on.</i><br /><br />How did Asians "break into" CA in the first place then?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1640704298983728472014-04-19T19:45:12.466-07:002014-04-19T19:45:12.466-07:00San Antonio isn't that surprising. It's th...<i>San Antonio isn't that surprising. It's the closest non-border US city to Monterrey.</i><br /><br />The Bushes were (are?) bankrolled by a rich Mexican from Monterrey named Ernesto Ancira.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72870922518073984002014-04-19T08:14:58.476-07:002014-04-19T08:14:58.476-07:00Florida Asians are oddly under-over-represented am...<i>Florida Asians are oddly under-over-represented among National Merit Semifinalists in Florida. (Google "2014 national merit Florida"). I say "under-over" because they do appear to be more than 2% of the total, but mot by much. Nothing like their dominance in California (making the adjustment in my head). The only cities with a lot of Asian names appear to be Gainesville (UofF) and Plantation (near Ft Lauderdale). They are quite scarce in Orlando, where their overall population is relatively high.</i><br /><br />Elite migration. <br /><br />The randomly selected East Asian average is close to the East Asian American average (only a little lower), but even though the elite families don't make much of a dent on the average, they give the East Asians (already smarter at math and equivalent on verbal) a disproportionate advantage on the high end (Ivy League, National Merit, International Mathematical Olympiads, etc.).<br /><br />And such East Asians go to New York and California.Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63130881469715727822014-04-19T05:40:03.393-07:002014-04-19T05:40:03.393-07:00My guess is that Asians are able to more easily wo...My guess is that Asians are able to more easily work the systems in California than in Florida. For starters a new Asian would find that there are more people of their same race there, and they love plugging into racial networks that benefit them (seems whites of Christian background are the only ones 'forbidden' to do this). But even without this, the Cuban-dominated networks of Miami would not be as easy to break into for an Asian as would be a situation like LA where there are many different ethnic networks going on.<br /><br />Cubans are also brighter than the Mexicans in California, so may provide more competition, though Hispanics are only part of the story. And, Spanish may be more of a lingua franca in Miami than in California, which would also serve to keep out Asians. <br /><br /><br /><br />Pochinkonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41513241363776423272014-04-18T22:14:37.666-07:002014-04-18T22:14:37.666-07:00Florida was the setting for the two best true crim...<i>Florida was the setting for the two best true crime movies of this century, Bully, and Pain And Gain.</i><br /><br />Sure, but it was also the setting for "Spring Breakers" and "Striptease" (and for wholly fictional crooks, the vastly overrated "Out of Sight")laboratory of democracynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87625439015281732902014-04-18T22:08:06.296-07:002014-04-18T22:08:06.296-07:00there are only a tiny number of rich Japanese (i.e...<i>there are only a tiny number of rich Japanese (i.e., not Japanese-Americans) in Southern California</i><br /><br />As a product of the L.A. elementary school curriculum I'd love to make a Manzanar joke here, however the true apex of kaisha involvement on the Yankee westside came during the Japan Inc. fad, e.g. foolishly buying MCA along with whatever crap Hollywood studios were on the block, and thus coincided with a less than fun period for Japan's economy. I guess it wasn't until the second time we dropped radioactive California assets on them that they learned their lesson.historical mysteriesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28556342318705968902014-04-18T17:46:15.571-07:002014-04-18T17:46:15.571-07:00Excerpts from Zev Chafets 1990 book about Detroit:...Excerpts from Zev Chafets 1990 book about Detroit:<br /><br />http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2013/07/rush-limbaugh-zeev-chafets-and-devils.htmlBig Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85300868200608882922014-04-18T12:24:36.868-07:002014-04-18T12:24:36.868-07:00a bit o/t, but on Chinese in Jamaica vs Chinese Ja...<i>a bit o/t, but on Chinese in Jamaica vs Chinese Jamaicans :</i><br /><br />Most Chinese Jamaicans are not really Chinese. They're like mulattoes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73948235662122451082014-04-18T09:19:42.289-07:002014-04-18T09:19:42.289-07:00Florida was the setting for the two best true crim...Florida was the setting for the two best true crime movies of this century, Bully, and Pain And Gain.Dave Pinsenhttp://twitter.com/dpinsennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16663068353905938892014-04-18T06:32:17.545-07:002014-04-18T06:32:17.545-07:00Speaking of Florida, I'm still waiting for MSN...Speaking of Florida, I'm still waiting for MSNBC to suspend Chris Matthews for his 2008 "cracker counties" comment during the elections - you know, since MSNBC is so against racism, and all of that.<br /><br />The Gulf Coast of Florida is decent, cheap and relatively safe because it has few blacks, bluntly speaking. Tampa-St Petersburg metro is only something like 8% black, as compared to the 30-50% rates you'd see in Charlotte, Atlanta, Miami, Birmingham, Houston, etc.<br /><br />Camlostnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37202706544043523442014-04-18T03:18:50.856-07:002014-04-18T03:18:50.856-07:00People who have not been to Sarasota may also be s...<i>People who have not been to Sarasota may also be surprised to learn that it has one of the best museums outside NYC, and a very active arts community, even though it has a very large retiree population.</i><br /><br />What's up w/ the small Amish population in Sarasota?<br /><br />Housing seems relatively expensive in Sarasota, but oh yes, the beaches are wonderful; especially Siesta Key. The beaches are more populated by retirees; while the rest of Sarasota not so much - plenty of business and some corporate jobs. The winter snowbirds jam the place up a bit.<br /><br />I had a good time last month catching an Orioles v. Red Sox spring training game in Sarasota.E. Rekshunnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89377061973993109172014-04-18T01:52:57.460-07:002014-04-18T01:52:57.460-07:00a bit o/t, but on Chinese in Jamaica vs Chinese Ja...a bit o/t, but on Chinese in Jamaica vs Chinese Jamaicans :<br /><br />http://www.stabroeknews.com/2013/news/regional/07/14/chinese-under-siege-in-jamaica/<br /><br /><i>"Many of the Chinese businessmen come to Jamaica with a culture of not opening bank accounts"</i><br /><br />aka a culture of not paying taxes, as a result of which they are informally "taxed" by both criminals and police. The settled Chinese think this gives them a bad name.<br /><br /><i>"This noncompliance with the formal tax system by expatriate Chinese business persons have earned the ire and wrath of what is called the ‘Jamaican Chinese’ many of whom openly comment on the added pressure that they face and have to deal with, because of the modus operandi of the Chinese expatriates.<br /><br />“We are Chinese, we are Jamaicans and we do business along the official lines as set out by Government. There are policies we don’t agree with, but in the main we comply by paying the various taxes and simply follow the law. When others do not comply, we feel the heat and are oftentimes labelled as being unpatriotic,” one prominent Jamaican Chinese entrepreneur told the Sunday Observer."</i> <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-92052730486996222622014-04-17T21:22:14.683-07:002014-04-17T21:22:14.683-07:00From having been down there, most of Dade County&#...From having been down there, most of Dade County's 3% (the county has a higher total than Miami itself, since there are a few more Asians in the suburbs) are South Asians. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71601491551847048872014-04-17T21:10:43.308-07:002014-04-17T21:10:43.308-07:00To Otis said:
I have met two Chinese-Jamaicans in...To Otis said:<br /><br />I have met two Chinese-Jamaicans in my life. Both were as rude and in your face as black Jamaicans are. It was a bit strange seeing an Oriental talk and act like that. Maybe it is a cultural thing. Or maybe Jamaica is just a bad place, Karmically-speaking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31933072972875010492014-04-17T20:15:16.075-07:002014-04-17T20:15:16.075-07:00I saw a lot of Asians in Universal Studios and Dis...I saw a lot of Asians in Universal Studios and Disney World, I even had a one night stand with a Filipina woman that I met at a night club in Downtown Disney. But outside of the popular tourist areas, I rarely saw Asian faces in the part of Florida where the everyday locals live.<br /><br />A lot of Asians like to vacation in Florida, especially in Orlando. But very few Asians actually want to live in Florida.Jeffersonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37591775474347585872014-04-17T19:58:56.273-07:002014-04-17T19:58:56.273-07:00As someone from the NYC area who has semi-retired ...As someone from the NYC area who has semi-retired to a barrier island off Sarasota, I think Anonymous at 9.48pm has it right. <br /><br />On the beach, especially on a barrier island, FL is nice even in the summer (while being hot, humid and horrible just a few miles inland). In contrast, the beaches in California are not very nice, unless you are a surfer. On my business trips to San Diego, I used to think it was so pretty, but Sarasota and Naples have it beat in terms of physical beauty. In addition, Sarasota and Naples do not have the Mexican gang elements you often see on CA beaches.<br /><br />People who have not been to Sarasota may also be surprised to learn that it has one of the best museums outside NYC, and a very active arts community, even though it has a very large retiree population.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21627139370603216082014-04-17T19:00:18.518-07:002014-04-17T19:00:18.518-07:00San Antonio isn't that surprising. It's th...San Antonio isn't that surprising. It's the closest non-border US city to Monterrey. LA, for instance, is very far from the moneyed parts of Mexico.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91405628938963341732014-04-17T18:20:29.390-07:002014-04-17T18:20:29.390-07:00John Malone is now #1 (2.2m acres), passing Ted Tu...<i>John Malone is now #1 (2.2m acres), passing Ted Turner.</i><br /><br /><a href="https://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-preparedness/a-peak-into-a-billionaires-bug-out-plan_07192010" rel="nofollow">John Malone</a> is one of those billionaires who thinks the US is in for a major crisis.<br /><br />Harry Baldwinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89677450370396736582014-04-17T17:23:52.465-07:002014-04-17T17:23:52.465-07:00Florida Asians are oddly under-over-represented am...Florida Asians are oddly under-over-represented among National Merit Semifinalists in Florida. (Google "2014 national merit Florida"). I say "under-over" because they do appear to be more than 2% of the total, but mot by much. Nothing like their dominance in California (making the adjustment in my head). The only cities with a lot of Asian names appear to be Gainesville (UofF) and Plantation (near Ft Lauderdale). They are quite scarce in Orlando, where their overall population is relatively high.<br /><br />That's an interesting list for other reasons. There are quite a few Spanish surnames--but matched to almost all Anglo first names, suggesting 3rd generation Cubans perhaps.<br /><br />Finally, George Zimmerman's hometown, Sanford, has quite a few kids on the list (suggesting it's not the dump I assumed).International Jewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85361464074711990402014-04-17T17:20:02.498-07:002014-04-17T17:20:02.498-07:00Anonymous said...”It's the humidity.”
Right. ...<i>Anonymous said...”It's the humidity.”<br /><br />Right. Because Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore are so temperate. </i><br /><br />Let me spell it out. Asians (or at least many of them) come from humid climates which they are not too fond of, so they prefer to stay in a dry (yet warm) place like coastal CA.<br /><br /><br /><i>I spent about a year, off and on, working in a noncollege town in Montana. Almost every resident was non-hispanic white. </i><br /><br />I guess it depends on what part of MT you were in. The "diversity" seems higher around Yellowstone NP. Apart from staying in a hotel managed by an Asian, I passed through Bozeman, which looked like it was filled with Mexican farmhands.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37138383751154187822014-04-17T16:50:06.338-07:002014-04-17T16:50:06.338-07:00..rich Mexicans go to Miami...
On second thought,...<i>..rich Mexicans go to Miami...</i><br /><br />On second thought, there are some Mexicans south of Miami in Homestead picking crops, but they're dirt poor.E. Rekshunnoreply@blogger.com