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...newcomers are drastically changing the Asian-American mix. The 1980 census showed that Japanese Americans, the largest Asian subgroup since 1910, have dropped to third place (701,000), after Chinese Americans (806,000) and Filipino Americans (775,000). Japanese Americans play almost no role in the current wave of Asian immigration. Within the next 30 years, demographers expect Filipinos to become the largest group of Asian Americans, followed in order by Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Asian Indians and, in sixth place, Japanese...
...most the climb is frustrating but ultimately successful. Antonio Cube, 49, a Filipino attorney, immigrated with his wife and two children in 1970. Accustomed to the services of three maids and a driver at home, but unqualified to practice law in the U.S., Cube found work instead as a computer encoder in a bank. "I almost went home," he says now. "But the bank sent me to technical schools and moved me up little by little. For five years my wife and I worked two full-time jobs." Today Cube is a supervisor for Seattle's Rainier Bank and owns...
...elderly, mentally ill and disabled in some areas of California is dominated by immigrants from the Philippines. According to Charles Skoien, executive vice president of the California Association of Residential Care Homes, about half of the nonmedical rest homes in the San Francisco and Santa Rosa areas are Filipino owned. The newcomers say they drifted into that field in part because of their cultural heritage. Says Zenaida Mallari, 40, a Philippine-born owner of two six-bed facilities: "In the rest of the world you find the families are extended. Without asking how or why, you take care...
...there is Little Havana in Miami, Koreatown in Los Angeles, Little Saigon in Orange County, Calif., Little Odessa in Brooklyn, N.Y. Monterey Park, Calif., was the first U.S. city to have a Chinese-born woman as mayor, and the five-member city council includes two Hispanics and a Filipino American; Hialeah, Fla., has a Cuban-born mayor; Delaware, a Chinese-born Lieutenant Governor...
...private one-hour 45-minute session, after which he announced that Karpov had accepted the decision and Kasparov would "abide by" it. But the young challenger was still furious. Outside the hall, he met with reporters and supporters and virtually accused Karpov of ganging up with Campomanes, a Filipino and longtime friend of the champion. "So, we see Karpov gets what he wants," Kasparov fumed. "He remains world champion. Why play chess if the president can take these decisions at any moment...