Word: ethnics
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...anywhere but Athens. New York has more Jamaicans (275,000), Russians (100,000) and Chinese (200,000), it seems sure, than any city outside Jamaica, the U.S.S.R., China and Taiwan. Los Angeles and Miami have a higher percentage of foreign- born residents, but neither can match New York's ethnic depth and breadth: not only does the city have nearly every immigrant group imaginable, each group is quite large. Even the smaller ethnic communities are sizable: the city has more Ethiopian residents (3,000) than several states have black people...
...city's random ethnic mix and match often manage to achieve an improbable harmony. One recent Thursday evening in Flushing, six drinkers sat at the bar of the Lychee Village restaurant: a black, an Indian, a Korean, two Chinese and, discussing educational policy with one of the Chinese men, a middle-aged white. "We have all kinds," says Owner William Ming. "German, Irish, South African, black, white, Chinese, Korean, all steady customers. They like each other. Why shouldn't they?" In the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens, the city's most eclectic immigrant community of all, the congregation of the First...
Although Hispanics constitute by far the largest audience for ethnic programming, a growing number of stations are offering polyglot schedules that amount to a microcosm of the U.S. melting pot. KSCI-TV in Los Angeles begins its day at 4 a.m. with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, followed by half an hour of Korean news, an Islamic educational program, a Farsi version of the Today show and, around lunchtime, a costume drama called Chinese World. WCIU-TV, Channel 26 in Chicago, carries some 60 hours a week of foreign-language programming, ranging from Club del Nino, a Hispanic children's series...
Local cable channels, with their narrower geographic reach, can often target their ethnic audiences more precisely. The Jade Channel, a pay-TV service from Hong Kong, was launched last December by a cable system in a heavily Chinese section of the Los Angeles area. For $17.95, viewers get a schedule of Chinese-language shows, including a Sesame Street-style children's series, a comedy-variety program called Enjoy Yourself Tonight and a Chinese version of The Odd Couple...
...genes change too. Statistically, according to one study, about 80% of European immigrants marry outside their own ethnic groups by the time they reach the third generation. Among Japanese Americans, at least in the Chicago area, the comparable figure is 15% in the second generation, 50% in the third...