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Article: Sound of music: why the U.S. West Coast is very different: California simply more open place for the young, edgy.(PACIFIC PERSPECTIVES)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- April 23, 2007
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A Japanese diplomat working out of his government's Washington embassy asked me the other day whether the West Coast was more attuned, interested and involved with the Pacific Rim than was perhaps the East Coast.
The answer to the Japanese diplomat's question is yes. And I say this with the greatest respect to my East Coast colleagues.
The reasons go beyond the usual. Yes, it's true that California is in fact home to more Asian-born and Asian-American individuals than any other state.
It's also true that the greatest concentration of Koreans outside of Seoul reside in California (345,882 according to the 2000 U.S. Census); and even once ...