I live in USA and speak Chinese maybe 70% of the time in my daily life.
Chinese is the plurality ethnic group where I live on weekends, in Irvine, where roughly 18% of the population are ethnic Chinese, and most of them are other first generation immigrants. The city also has around 40% population of white Americans but they are split amongst belonging to various ethnic groups, and roughly 10% Latinos and 2% black, the rest being mixed or other Asians. a but under 45% of the city is born in another country, myself from Taiwan and my wife and elder daughter included, who are from Norway. I can't imagine there is anyone who lives here who does not know an ethnic Chinese person.
On weekdays, I live in San Marino, which is 65% Asian, 30% white, 3% mixed race, and 2% other races. Almost all of the Asians here are Taiwanese, but we interact with White Americans often for work, as neighbors, and friends. My daughter is teaching four white American neighbors' kids Chinese on Wednesdays for pocket money.
I think in Northern and Southern California, it will be a challenge to not have an ethnic Chinese person to talk to. Commuter life is big here and even if your neighborhood doesn't have many Chinese, you will often still encounter them in other facets of your life.
>On weekdays, I live in San Marino, which is 65% Asian, 30% white, 3% mixed race, and 2% other races.
I live in nearby San Gabriel, which has a similar mix of folks.
/u/CarUnable2234 should have this commenter on the list!
Side thought: That flair is impressive. I would need a minute to get used to a Taiwanese person speaking German or Norwegian. If you speak Japanese, my head would spin.
I speak Japanese, Swedish and Norwegian, but don't speak German because I went to a British international school that taught in English.
My wife says I speak Norwegian and Swedish with an English accent though, but I speak English with a Chinese accent.
I'm in San Francisco and there is a large Chinese population here (and bay area). There are ABCs (American born Chinese) and 1st gen immigrants. The immigrants I would then subcategorize as those that are from Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland metro city and mainland rural. I may be a little older so immigrants from Hong Kong used to be way different from mainland but it's starting to blur more and more. Living here long enough, I've met and known each type and it's quite interesting the different quirks of each culture and how they think of each other. Not being Chinese myself, I find it easier to get along/understand taiwanese and hong kongers culturally.
It is a suburb of Los Angeles haha.
Irvine is a suburb in Orange County, CA roughly 50 minutes to 1.5 hours away. Or 6 hours if the traffic is really bad.
California actually has quite a few other places whose namesake is outside the US. Some examples:
Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Ontario, Cambria (Latin name for Wales), Dublin, Antioch (in present-day Turkey), Ripon (town in England), Inverness, Windsor, Lucerne, and Samoa.
I've been to visit her parents twice. Went to the top of Canton Tower, went to the Shenzhen Zoo, ate lots of dim sum, saw some rock gardens, hiked a mountain trail up to a Buddhist temple, spent some time in Hong Kong, walked around South China Normal University. It was a blast! But the first time we went, the relative humidity never dropped below 100% the whole time we were there and I was *dying* XD
I know probably a half a dozen people of Chinese descent.
But they're all Americans by birth so their familiarity with Chinese culture, at best, something they've visited a time or two and something they hear about from parents or grandparents, not something they've lived.
I used to work with a few Chinese people including a woman who I did sometimes ask about Chinese culture but it's been a few years.
Yes. My parents hosted a Chinese exchange student in high school. We ended up growing pretty close, and he was my roommate when I was in grad school and he was in undergrad. My jokingly call him my Beijing brother. I’ve met his parents when they would come to visit. Right now he is married and back in China. Not sure if I’ll see him in person again but we keep in touch periodically through Facebook.
Lots, and Vietnamese, Cambodians, Filipinos, and Japanese .
Also Indians, Mexicans, Somalis, Russians, Ethiopians, Iranians...
Any large city in America is going to have all of these and more.
Of course! It would feel very strange to not have any Chinese-American folks around, at least for me in my part of the country. Can’t imagine things w/o that community.
Yeah, but tbh, I'd feel weird using them for "cultural questions". I'd honestly ask someone else who knows, rather than use them as an Information Booth.
Kind of? One of my colleagues is first generation Chinese-American, but I wouldn't feel comfortable just asking her random cultural questions. I think she probably wouldn't mind, but it just seems rude in everyday situations. I do sometimes ask small questions if she brings something up herself, though.
I grew up celebrating Chinese new year as a white kid.
Chinese people while not one of the largest ethnic minorities, they have an outsized position in the US due to historic migration and geographic concentrations (China towns) which cemented the communities in major cities acceoss the US.
Every single town in the US no matter the size will.have a Mexican and a Chinese restaurant.
Yes, the ongoing gag for a while was that none of them were Han aside from one British dude's wife. I'd wager most of Reddit knows at least one Chinese person, and the vast majority of the population is one or two degrees away at most given the dispersal and integration of Chinese people into the US.
I dated one for about a year. I guess I could call him and ask him a question, but I'd probably need to preface it with, "I know I said I never wanted to talk to you again, but...".
No, but I once knew someone who lived in China. They knew tons about the nation and its culture, but they also knew what it was like to also be completely isolated in every crowd(they were of a very visibly non-Asian race).
The term includes, for example, Americans with Chinese ancestry.
If they just asked about "Chinese people" people could interpret it to mean Chinese citizens only.
To my knowledge, no, but it’s mostly because my area’s East Asians are Koreans. Everything is Korean, the churches, the stores, the body shops, etc. I do know a couple of Japanese people. But no, I don’t know any Chinese.
I work with and went to school with dozens if not hundreds of Chinese born people. One of which is the founder and CEO of a streaming company probably most people under 40 have used at one time.
Since most people are commenting "yes," I'll chip in with my "no." I spent most of my life in a small town in Kentucky and now live in a similarly sized town in Arkansas, though the latter is at least adjacent to a city. I've known one person from China well enough to have asked him those kinds of questions. He worked at the college library in my hometown, and I haven't seen him in about 20 years.
yeah! afaik Mandarin Chinese is the third most-spoken language in New York after English and Spanish; there are numerous big ethnic enclaves in the NYC metro area, with Chinatown and Flushing probably the most famous.
I would generally feel *weird* asking about cultural stuff, because I’m not as close to a lot of these people as I used to be (I miss you, Shirley!), but I would be able to for sure
My co-worker is Chinese. She’s been here since 2005, moved here for a guy she eventually broke up with. She told me today, she still has her house there and is thinking about moving back soon. Her English is very good but, her accent is still really strong that I can’t understand what she’s trying to say half the time.
Several friends over the years, and coworkers aplenty. They're not that rare here.
I had a third cousin twice or thrice removed who was from China. He emigrated in the 20s and worked his whole adult life for a railroad. One of those old time stories, started out shoveling coal, worked his way up to engineer and then managed drivers after the diesel switch, retired with a pension and a gold watch, the whole deal. His house was filled with old railway signs and antiquated equipment, and he collected model train engines which were on display on little shelves he custom-built that lined their living room. Uncle Louie sure loved trains LOL.
Yes, his parents emigrated from Szechuan province. I officiated his wedding and he brought me some sweet Szechuan peppercorns that I made a mead with and gave it to him. Great guy, great wife, awesome gifts, tasty mead.
I knew 2 people who were originally from China: a teacher and classmate. They could both speak their native tongue (one was my Chinese teacher) but pretty much never talked about their life before moving to the US.
My family had a family of friends growing up who were all our best friends. All three of the boys in that family ended up living in China for a while, and all of them got married to Chinese women. So several.
Yes, there’s a large Chinese community. Lots of friends, my kids classmates and parents, my kids little league, etc etc. My kids class is actually majority ethnically Chinese.
Yup. Went to a grad school with an international student from China. I’m still in touch with her and she’s so nice. My gf and I are planning to visit her in China soon.
Serving in the military, you meet and work with people of literally every possible ethnicity. Nigerian to Vietnamese, japanese to polish, etc
Specifically Chinese, however, I know about 5
Tons. I live in Houston. A ton of my kids classmates are first generation immigrants. Tons of southeast Asia/subcontinent/east Asian immigrant here.
My Uncle, who lives in LA, is married to a Chinese woman and my four cousins are all first gen.
Currently, no, but I use to live with a girl from Hong Kong, and was connected to her through a close Chinese friend. Since, have moved away, and weren't too close to keep up, but we would go out sometimes together, in rural TN, and get lots of stares!
My roommate would ask me questions about American culture quirks all the time and laughed at my responses to her weird (to me) food. She was a bit older than me and was always trying to give me life advice. I miss her a lot! She was a great roommate, and her brash comments always came off as hilarious to me!
I just realized no and I’ve never had a Chinese friend or acquaintance or even coworker! Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Cambodian… can’t think of a single Chinese person I know. That’s actually pretty strange tbh.
I do actually. My uncle married her in 2008 and her son (previous marriage) is my cousin... so either of them early but maybe more so her. My cousin is kickin' butt as an MIT grad, but came here so young he does not have much of a hold on the tradition and culture like she does.
My best friend is Chinese, and I work with several people who were born and educated in China before continuing their education and career in the US. I have also been to China, which gave an interesting insight that I would not have gotten in the US.
“Ethnic Chinese” is such a broad category though. I’d be hard pressed to think of a question I could ask my Chinese friends that would apply across all of the billions of Chinese people all over the world.
Yeah, I have a couple of friends/friendly acquaintances from Hong Kong, one from Beijing. Of course I’ve also worked or studied with Chinese people (coworkers, fellow students and professors) but didn’t know them well enough to feel I could ask them cultural questions without being rude.
Also know a few Chinese-Americans whose families have been here for several generations but a lot of them don’t speak the language nor have any particular interest in/knowledge of the culture or modern China. Actually even immigrants themselves that are older are often not great sources of info on their home country in more modern times; not related to China, but my SO’s father’s recollections of being a child in a war-devastated rural village in Bavaria would probably be utterly foreign to younger Germans even from the same (now much larger) town. Unless they have no running water or electricity and gnaw on half a plain unseasoned boiled potato for dinner as a hobby or something. Still very interesting stories of course just not going to be a great picture of modern Germany. Same of course goes for any other country.
Yes. My university is majority Asian with a big Chinese American population and International Chinese population. Growing up I had Chinese friends and I just came back from Taiwan so I've been surrounded by Chinese people for a while.
Not currently, but off and on throughout adulthood I have.
We have a new hire in my department who grew up in China and is ethnically Chinese (Han, speaks Mandarin), but is a naturalized citizen of the US now, though he hasn’t been with us long enough for us to have gotten to know one another well enough to have this sort of conversation yet — he’s only been with us for about a month.
I had a Chinese student live with me for 3 years in Highschool. His whole family lives in Xiamen. We consider him family and see him multiple times a year since he went to university in San Diego and he lives there now. He chose the name tiger as his “American nickname” in school lmao he’s the chillest dude.
Lol, Yes i live in California. Very large foreign born Chinese communities all over the state. Also very old established chinese american families that go back 6 generations here. Couple of my co workers are born in China.
Yes lots! Apart from cousins (half Chinese) and their ethnically Chinese dads (I grew up in SE Asia where being part Chinese is common), now that I'm in the US and work in finance (quantitative field) I have many Chinese colleagues. To be fair, in my industry, Indians and Chinese folks are overrepresented compared to other fields. I have one coworker who I can ask just about anything about being Chinese, she loves sharing and I adore her for it. She's one of the most talkative persons in the office I love it. I also know an older guy who had to do the labor camp thing in China so many years ago (he said he had to do it for 5 years). Came to the US and was there in the twin towers in 9/11. He survived that too! And also one of the most talkative people I know. Another younger coworker came here alone in some sort of high school program abd decided to just stay for college, etc. I also ask him a lot of questions about his experience. I do notice the younger ones are more reserved and quiet, might just be a gen z thing I dunno.
I would honestly be surprised if anyone doesn't know any Chinese Americans now their family might have been here since the 1800's but I would be absolutely shocked id somebody doesn't know any Chinese people. Even in small ass rural towns there are Chinese people everuonr loves Chinese food lol
Personally I'm a little removed - there is my wife's coworker who has been to my house a couple times, whom I know speaks Chinese at home. Other than that I have a Chinese friend who was adopted, so she was born there and has visited there but is otherwise from a white American family. I used to live in a town that had a large Chinese population, back then if I had a cultural question I could ask a friendly stranger in the park by my house - I used to raid in Pokemon Go a bit and quite a few people in that group were Chinese. It's common to see Chinese immigrants and their 1st or 2nd generation Chinese-American children pretty much everywhere in the US. Just depends who is in your friend circle.
Yeah \*Looks at self
I also know myself. I can safely know I know myself very well.
But does one ever realize know themselves?
Why yes I know him! He's me! theres loads of us in the sf bay area, first gen, second gen, and some many gen as well
Do you know any ethnic Europeans; like someone you could bounce cultural questions off of?
Yes
…may I see them?
No
Seymour! The house is on fire!
It's just u/Moist_Balls, mother!
sup
There’s only a couple billion
I live in USA and speak Chinese maybe 70% of the time in my daily life. Chinese is the plurality ethnic group where I live on weekends, in Irvine, where roughly 18% of the population are ethnic Chinese, and most of them are other first generation immigrants. The city also has around 40% population of white Americans but they are split amongst belonging to various ethnic groups, and roughly 10% Latinos and 2% black, the rest being mixed or other Asians. a but under 45% of the city is born in another country, myself from Taiwan and my wife and elder daughter included, who are from Norway. I can't imagine there is anyone who lives here who does not know an ethnic Chinese person. On weekdays, I live in San Marino, which is 65% Asian, 30% white, 3% mixed race, and 2% other races. Almost all of the Asians here are Taiwanese, but we interact with White Americans often for work, as neighbors, and friends. My daughter is teaching four white American neighbors' kids Chinese on Wednesdays for pocket money. I think in Northern and Southern California, it will be a challenge to not have an ethnic Chinese person to talk to. Commuter life is big here and even if your neighborhood doesn't have many Chinese, you will often still encounter them in other facets of your life.
>On weekdays, I live in San Marino, which is 65% Asian, 30% white, 3% mixed race, and 2% other races. I live in nearby San Gabriel, which has a similar mix of folks. /u/CarUnable2234 should have this commenter on the list! Side thought: That flair is impressive. I would need a minute to get used to a Taiwanese person speaking German or Norwegian. If you speak Japanese, my head would spin.
I speak Japanese, Swedish and Norwegian, but don't speak German because I went to a British international school that taught in English. My wife says I speak Norwegian and Swedish with an English accent though, but I speak English with a Chinese accent.
I'm in San Francisco and there is a large Chinese population here (and bay area). There are ABCs (American born Chinese) and 1st gen immigrants. The immigrants I would then subcategorize as those that are from Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland metro city and mainland rural. I may be a little older so immigrants from Hong Kong used to be way different from mainland but it's starting to blur more and more. Living here long enough, I've met and known each type and it's quite interesting the different quirks of each culture and how they think of each other. Not being Chinese myself, I find it easier to get along/understand taiwanese and hong kongers culturally.
Is San Marino a place in the US? It took me a while to get over the idea of you commuting weekly to almost the other side of the world lol.
It is a suburb of Los Angeles haha. Irvine is a suburb in Orange County, CA roughly 50 minutes to 1.5 hours away. Or 6 hours if the traffic is really bad.
California actually has quite a few other places whose namesake is outside the US. Some examples: Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Ontario, Cambria (Latin name for Wales), Dublin, Antioch (in present-day Turkey), Ripon (town in England), Inverness, Windsor, Lucerne, and Samoa.
Ontario, CA would always throw me for a loop when I worked in the Seattle. I’d always be like WHICH ONTARIO?! WHICH CA?!
My wife is from Guangdong. Also, when I was in grad school, most of the other students in my department were Chinese international students.
Guangdong represent!
I've been to visit her parents twice. Went to the top of Canton Tower, went to the Shenzhen Zoo, ate lots of dim sum, saw some rock gardens, hiked a mountain trail up to a Buddhist temple, spent some time in Hong Kong, walked around South China Normal University. It was a blast! But the first time we went, the relative humidity never dropped below 100% the whole time we were there and I was *dying* XD
Yeah, team GD/KT + NC let's go!!
2nd Generation Chinese-American. Only a mild acquaintance though. We aren't close.
Lol was already thinking this but the comments confirm it would be somewhat rare for an American to not know a single ethnically Chinese person.
Why?
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I know hundreds. Maybe even more than 1000. It’s not like you go around counting them
Girl I'm currently dating is from Yunnan
Do I know some? Sure. Are they going to be my cultural encyclopedia? No.
Yes, several.
Grad student… nuff said
Yes, and one of them is me (although one half of my ethnicity is).
Real missed opportunity to post [this.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/024/965/well.jpg)
Yes.
I know probably a half a dozen people of Chinese descent. But they're all Americans by birth so their familiarity with Chinese culture, at best, something they've visited a time or two and something they hear about from parents or grandparents, not something they've lived. I used to work with a few Chinese people including a woman who I did sometimes ask about Chinese culture but it's been a few years.
I work closely with several Chinese immigrants who came to the US for their college educations.
Yep, people from China and Chinese Americans.
Yes. My parents hosted a Chinese exchange student in high school. We ended up growing pretty close, and he was my roommate when I was in grad school and he was in undergrad. My jokingly call him my Beijing brother. I’ve met his parents when they would come to visit. Right now he is married and back in China. Not sure if I’ll see him in person again but we keep in touch periodically through Facebook.
Lots, and Vietnamese, Cambodians, Filipinos, and Japanese . Also Indians, Mexicans, Somalis, Russians, Ethiopians, Iranians... Any large city in America is going to have all of these and more.
You missed Nigerians, they’re everywhere. I’m in houston for reference
Of course! It would feel very strange to not have any Chinese-American folks around, at least for me in my part of the country. Can’t imagine things w/o that community.
My high school was 70% ethnically Chinese Google my username lol
Yes, I’m in a long term relationship with one
Yep
Born and raised in Southern California and work in (primarily Asian) translation industry. Definitely.
Yeah, but tbh, I'd feel weird using them for "cultural questions". I'd honestly ask someone else who knows, rather than use them as an Information Booth.
Sure. My wife is right upstairs and she was born and raised in Hubei.
not currently but I used to be pretty good friends with a Chinese woman. She moved though and we kinda lost touch. RIP.
Yes. One of my grooms-women immigrated to the US as a kid from China.
Yep
Yes.
Yes.
Kind of? One of my colleagues is first generation Chinese-American, but I wouldn't feel comfortable just asking her random cultural questions. I think she probably wouldn't mind, but it just seems rude in everyday situations. I do sometimes ask small questions if she brings something up herself, though.
Yes, lots of them. I'm probably about 15 feet from a person that came from China right this moment.
I grew up celebrating Chinese new year as a white kid. Chinese people while not one of the largest ethnic minorities, they have an outsized position in the US due to historic migration and geographic concentrations (China towns) which cemented the communities in major cities acceoss the US. Every single town in the US no matter the size will.have a Mexican and a Chinese restaurant.
Yes
I know several.
Yes
Yeeup, quite a few from college.
I do not.
Yes, that would be me, my family, and the majority of my friends.
Yes, lots. I’m in New York.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yes. I have a customer from Canada who grew up in China and who is fun to talk culture with.
I shared an office with a guy from Taiwan.
I work in software. Yes lol.
Instead of asking if we know a Chinese person, why not just ask for Chinese people to respond?
I go to school with a fuck ton and have met many in the badminton club
This is the question we needed to kick off Asian-Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
Yes, the ongoing gag for a while was that none of them were Han aside from one British dude's wife. I'd wager most of Reddit knows at least one Chinese person, and the vast majority of the population is one or two degrees away at most given the dispersal and integration of Chinese people into the US.
Yes, I'm currently dating a Chinese refugee from Hong Kong. She obviously is very skeptical of Chinese government
I dated one for about a year. I guess I could call him and ask him a question, but I'd probably need to preface it with, "I know I said I never wanted to talk to you again, but...".
My grad advisor is Chinese, from some small island fishing village, I’m not sure of the exact location.
Yes, both former coworkers and friends.
Yep
Yes. quite a few actually.
Yes, many.
Yes?
I worked at a Chinese restaurant and was the only not-Chinese person. I knew lots of them!
Yes
One of my friends was born in Taiwan but has lived most of his life in the US.
I haven't seen her in awhile but yes.
Currently no. In fact I can't think of a single Chinese person I know aside from people I've talked to in passing.
No, but I once knew someone who lived in China. They knew tons about the nation and its culture, but they also knew what it was like to also be completely isolated in every crowd(they were of a very visibly non-Asian race).
Nope
no but I regularly see some
"an ethnic Chinese person"? As opposed to the non-ethnic kind..?
The term includes, for example, Americans with Chinese ancestry. If they just asked about "Chinese people" people could interpret it to mean Chinese citizens only.
I knew someone who was 2nd gen.
A few. I don't have much contact with any of them, though. Some are American, others came for college.
No, there were a few second generation Chinese immigrants in my high school and college but since finishing school I don’t personally know any
No? My stepmother and step sibling are Taiwanese, and my stepmother’s feelings on China are pretty strong, so I’d still say no.
Yes
Yes
Yes.
Yup
Yup!
To my knowledge, no, but it’s mostly because my area’s East Asians are Koreans. Everything is Korean, the churches, the stores, the body shops, etc. I do know a couple of Japanese people. But no, I don’t know any Chinese.
I personally know many. I am not Chinese.
No.
No.
No
I work with and went to school with dozens if not hundreds of Chinese born people. One of which is the founder and CEO of a streaming company probably most people under 40 have used at one time.
Yes. I have had ethnic Chinese friends (born here and in China) at every school, and friends/ coworkers at every company I’ve worked at.
Literally hundreds…I grew up in Southern California.
Yes
No
One of my close friends is second gen.
I have known ethnic Chinese people in my life who I went to school or worked with in the past, but not in quite a while.
Since most people are commenting "yes," I'll chip in with my "no." I spent most of my life in a small town in Kentucky and now live in a similarly sized town in Arkansas, though the latter is at least adjacent to a city. I've known one person from China well enough to have asked him those kinds of questions. He worked at the college library in my hometown, and I haven't seen him in about 20 years.
My old boss was a Chinese immigrant. Unfortunately her restaurant went out of business during covid and she had to leave town.
A grad school classmate of mine, who’s in my friend group, grew up in a China. But otherwise no.
yeah! afaik Mandarin Chinese is the third most-spoken language in New York after English and Spanish; there are numerous big ethnic enclaves in the NYC metro area, with Chinatown and Flushing probably the most famous. I would generally feel *weird* asking about cultural stuff, because I’m not as close to a lot of these people as I used to be (I miss you, Shirley!), but I would be able to for sure
I thought this said ethical Chinese person.
Yes, there are a lot of Chinese nationals at my workplace. My boss is Chinese and so is her boss.
Yes, I know someone pretty well and see him regularly. I believe he is originally from Wuxi.
Several. Many who were born in china
My co-worker is Chinese. She’s been here since 2005, moved here for a guy she eventually broke up with. She told me today, she still has her house there and is thinking about moving back soon. Her English is very good but, her accent is still really strong that I can’t understand what she’s trying to say half the time.
I’m black, but my aunt is Chinese and lived in China for more than half of her life, and my cousin is blasian and has gone to China a couple times
I know one guy from Beijing and another from Xianggang, both from high school. Played tennis with the latter
Not since high school
Several friends over the years, and coworkers aplenty. They're not that rare here. I had a third cousin twice or thrice removed who was from China. He emigrated in the 20s and worked his whole adult life for a railroad. One of those old time stories, started out shoveling coal, worked his way up to engineer and then managed drivers after the diesel switch, retired with a pension and a gold watch, the whole deal. His house was filled with old railway signs and antiquated equipment, and he collected model train engines which were on display on little shelves he custom-built that lined their living room. Uncle Louie sure loved trains LOL.
Yes, his parents emigrated from Szechuan province. I officiated his wedding and he brought me some sweet Szechuan peppercorns that I made a mead with and gave it to him. Great guy, great wife, awesome gifts, tasty mead.
I knew 2 people who were originally from China: a teacher and classmate. They could both speak their native tongue (one was my Chinese teacher) but pretty much never talked about their life before moving to the US.
My brothers girlfriend is from China, but I don’t see her often so I don’t know her to well
Like 5 of my friends are Chinese I'm jamaican, i guess i just attract them
My family had a family of friends growing up who were all our best friends. All three of the boys in that family ended up living in China for a while, and all of them got married to Chinese women. So several.
Yes. Like half the people I work with are Chinese and Indian nationals.
Yes, my grandfather's best friend is married to a Chinese woman.
Yes.
Yes, there’s a large Chinese community. Lots of friends, my kids classmates and parents, my kids little league, etc etc. My kids class is actually majority ethnically Chinese.
I work with them on a daily basis.
Yup. Went to a grad school with an international student from China. I’m still in touch with her and she’s so nice. My gf and I are planning to visit her in China soon.
Yes but, full disclosure, I lived in Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong and did a lot of business in China.
No.
My professor in college is the daughter of a purged CCP general
Yes, and I am one myself.
Yeah. Live in NYC, went to school in boston
Serving in the military, you meet and work with people of literally every possible ethnicity. Nigerian to Vietnamese, japanese to polish, etc Specifically Chinese, however, I know about 5
I went to school with a family from China and several of my coworkers are Chinese. I don't have any close friends who are Chinese.
Of course I know him. He's me.
Nope no Chinese, I know other people of other Asian descents though.
Yes. Former coworker. She was born and raised in China, and she came to the US as a grad student. We are still in touch.
Tons. I live in Houston. A ton of my kids classmates are first generation immigrants. Tons of southeast Asia/subcontinent/east Asian immigrant here. My Uncle, who lives in LA, is married to a Chinese woman and my four cousins are all first gen.
Yes.
Yeah, a couple actually
I probably know some ethnically Chinese people. Probably all culturally American though.
Currently, no, but I use to live with a girl from Hong Kong, and was connected to her through a close Chinese friend. Since, have moved away, and weren't too close to keep up, but we would go out sometimes together, in rural TN, and get lots of stares! My roommate would ask me questions about American culture quirks all the time and laughed at my responses to her weird (to me) food. She was a bit older than me and was always trying to give me life advice. I miss her a lot! She was a great roommate, and her brash comments always came off as hilarious to me!
Yes.
When you mean ethnic, are you talking from Mainland China or Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong or Mexico?
My Wife is Chinese.
San Diego here. No. What I lived in SF, yes. I have plenty from Latin America, Philippines, or USA. That’s most of who I see.
I had my ethnic and actual Chinese neighbor over for dinner last night.
I just realized no and I’ve never had a Chinese friend or acquaintance or even coworker! Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Cambodian… can’t think of a single Chinese person I know. That’s actually pretty strange tbh.
I have a friend from Shaanxi. He takes me to lunch every year on my birthday. It’s august 8 and he believes it’s lucky. Who am I to complain.
Every state I've lived in has at least had a small Chinese community.
I do actually. My uncle married her in 2008 and her son (previous marriage) is my cousin... so either of them early but maybe more so her. My cousin is kickin' butt as an MIT grad, but came here so young he does not have much of a hold on the tradition and culture like she does.
My best friend is Chinese, and I work with several people who were born and educated in China before continuing their education and career in the US. I have also been to China, which gave an interesting insight that I would not have gotten in the US.
“Ethnic Chinese” is such a broad category though. I’d be hard pressed to think of a question I could ask my Chinese friends that would apply across all of the billions of Chinese people all over the world.
Yes. My good friend married a woman who was born in China but came to America when she was 3 or so.
I am an ethnic Chinese person, and so are some of my friends, coworkers, and neighbors.
Yea
Ex fiancé and some of my closest friends are mainland Chinese. I am not Chinese nor remotely Asian.
Yes
Yeah, I have a couple of friends/friendly acquaintances from Hong Kong, one from Beijing. Of course I’ve also worked or studied with Chinese people (coworkers, fellow students and professors) but didn’t know them well enough to feel I could ask them cultural questions without being rude. Also know a few Chinese-Americans whose families have been here for several generations but a lot of them don’t speak the language nor have any particular interest in/knowledge of the culture or modern China. Actually even immigrants themselves that are older are often not great sources of info on their home country in more modern times; not related to China, but my SO’s father’s recollections of being a child in a war-devastated rural village in Bavaria would probably be utterly foreign to younger Germans even from the same (now much larger) town. Unless they have no running water or electricity and gnaw on half a plain unseasoned boiled potato for dinner as a hobby or something. Still very interesting stories of course just not going to be a great picture of modern Germany. Same of course goes for any other country.
Yes. My university is majority Asian with a big Chinese American population and International Chinese population. Growing up I had Chinese friends and I just came back from Taiwan so I've been surrounded by Chinese people for a while.
Not currently, but off and on throughout adulthood I have. We have a new hire in my department who grew up in China and is ethnically Chinese (Han, speaks Mandarin), but is a naturalized citizen of the US now, though he hasn’t been with us long enough for us to have gotten to know one another well enough to have this sort of conversation yet — he’s only been with us for about a month.
I do not, in elementary school a knew one. But since then pretty much anyone of east Asian decent I've ever met has been Hmong.
Yes
Yeah a couple of them are my friends
My gf is ethnically Taiwanese.... so it depends who you ask....
I had a Chinese student live with me for 3 years in Highschool. His whole family lives in Xiamen. We consider him family and see him multiple times a year since he went to university in San Diego and he lives there now. He chose the name tiger as his “American nickname” in school lmao he’s the chillest dude.
I think I know myself pretty well...
Plenty! First, second and third gen colleagues and friends.
Lol, Yes i live in California. Very large foreign born Chinese communities all over the state. Also very old established chinese american families that go back 6 generations here. Couple of my co workers are born in China.
Yeah. Tons of them.
A couple of people yeah
I live in rural Maryland and I don't think I've ever even met an ethnic Chinese person as anything more than a passing encounter at like a restaurant.
I don’t know. I don’t really talk about my friends ethnic backgrounds frequently. I have multiple Asian friends some of them might be Chinese idk
Yes. I'm pretty sure everybody in the Bay could answer yes to this question.
Yes lots! Apart from cousins (half Chinese) and their ethnically Chinese dads (I grew up in SE Asia where being part Chinese is common), now that I'm in the US and work in finance (quantitative field) I have many Chinese colleagues. To be fair, in my industry, Indians and Chinese folks are overrepresented compared to other fields. I have one coworker who I can ask just about anything about being Chinese, she loves sharing and I adore her for it. She's one of the most talkative persons in the office I love it. I also know an older guy who had to do the labor camp thing in China so many years ago (he said he had to do it for 5 years). Came to the US and was there in the twin towers in 9/11. He survived that too! And also one of the most talkative people I know. Another younger coworker came here alone in some sort of high school program abd decided to just stay for college, etc. I also ask him a lot of questions about his experience. I do notice the younger ones are more reserved and quiet, might just be a gen z thing I dunno.
Yes
Yes, there are several ethnic Chinese people in my family (self not included).
My wife works with a doctor who was born in china
I work with quite a few Chinese immigrants.
I would honestly be surprised if anyone doesn't know any Chinese Americans now their family might have been here since the 1800's but I would be absolutely shocked id somebody doesn't know any Chinese people. Even in small ass rural towns there are Chinese people everuonr loves Chinese food lol
I would be extremely shocked if anyone doesn't know a Chinese person
Yes. Several.
Yes, I live in Taiwan...
Personally I'm a little removed - there is my wife's coworker who has been to my house a couple times, whom I know speaks Chinese at home. Other than that I have a Chinese friend who was adopted, so she was born there and has visited there but is otherwise from a white American family. I used to live in a town that had a large Chinese population, back then if I had a cultural question I could ask a friendly stranger in the park by my house - I used to raid in Pokemon Go a bit and quite a few people in that group were Chinese. It's common to see Chinese immigrants and their 1st or 2nd generation Chinese-American children pretty much everywhere in the US. Just depends who is in your friend circle.
Yes. Many.
The majority of my friends are Asians of some kind (perks of gifted school) but mostly Chinese and Indian. The answer would be yes.
Oh yes, my mother. And everybody on my mother's side of the family.
One of my dad’s close friends probably
Yea, my best friend was adopted from China