Southeast Asian Americans
Appearance
Regions with significant populations | |
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Continental United States, smaller populations in Alaska and Hawaii | |
Languages | |
American English Burmese, Hmong, Iu Mien, Javanese, Khmer, Lao, Malay, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese, other Southeast Asian languages | |
Religion | |
Mainly Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam |
Southeast Asian Americans are
East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.[1][2] In the United States census, they are a subcategory of Asian Americans, although individual racial classification is based on self-identification and the categorization is "not an attempt to define race biologically, anthropologically, or genetically".[3]
See also
- Asian Americans
- Burmese Americans
- Cambodian Americans
- Filipino Americans
- Hmong Americans
- Indonesian Americans
- Iu Mien Americans
- Laotian Americans
- Malaysian Americans
- Singaporean Americans
- Thai Americans
- Vietnamese Americans
References
- ISBN 978-1-4522-8189-6.
- ^ "Defining Diaspora: Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi Identities | Cross-Cultural Center | CSUSM". www.csusm.edu.
- ^ United States Census Bureau. "About the Topic of Race". Census.gov.