
Metro Los Angeles is home to the largest populations of the following peoples outside of their respective homelands: Armenians, Belizeans, Cambodians, Filipinos, Guatemalans, Iranians, Koreans, Mexicans, Salvadorans, Saudis, Taiwanese, Thai, and Vietnamese. It is additionally home to the largest communities, in the US, of Australians, British, Burmese (recently overtaken by Indianapolis), Canadians, Indonesians, and Mongolians. If we include transplants in the conversation, California (and likely Los Angeles) is home to the largest population of Alaskans, Arizonans, Chamorros, Coloradans,, Hawaiians, Minnesotans, Mississippians, Nevadans, New Mexicans, Samoans, Utahns, and Washingtonians outside of their respective states and territories.
Metro Los Angeles is also home to many enclaves, including Chinatown, Filipinotown, Cambodia Town, Little Arabia, Little Bangladesh, Little Brazil, Little Ethiopia, Little India, Little Odessa, Little Osaka, Little Taipei, Little Toyko, two Koreatowns (in Buena Park and Midtown Los Angeles), two Little Manilas (in Long Beach and West Covina), Little Saigon, Little Seoul, Tehrangeles, and Thai Town.
Historically, Los Angeles was also home to a Bronzeville, Chihuihuita, several Chinatowns (in Anaheim, Old Chinatown, Orange, Pasadena, and Santa Ana), Frenchtown, Greek Town, numerous Japanese enclaves (Crenshaw Seinan, Furasato, J. Flats, Seinan, and Uemachi), Little Havana, Little Holland, Little Italy, Little Manila, Old Koreatown, Russian Flats, and Sonoratown.
There are many more communities, though, who have never coalesced into local enclaves.
- Afghan Los Angeles 🇦🇫
- Arab Los Angeles
- Argentine Los Angeles 🇦🇷
- Australian Los Angeles 🇦🇺
- Belizean Los Angeles 🇧🇿
- Bolivian Los Angeles 🇧🇴
- Brazilian Los Angeles 🇧🇷
- Burmese Los Angeles 🇲🇲
- Cambodian Los Angeles 🇰🇭
- Canadian Los Angeles 🇨🇦
- Catalan Los Angeles 🏴
- Chilean Los Angeles 🇨🇱
- Chumash Los Angeles
- Colombian Los Angeles 🇨🇴
- Croatian Los Angeles 🇭🇷
- Cuban Los Angeles 🇨🇺
- English Los Angeles 🏴
- Eritrean Los Angeles 🇪🇷
- Ghanaian Los Angeles 🇬🇭
- Greek Los Angeles 🇬🇷
- Guamanian Los Angeles 🇬🇺
- Hawaiian Los Angeles 🏴
- Hmong Los Angeles
- Honduran Los Angeles 🇭🇳
- Hongkonger Los Angeles 🇭🇰
- Indian Los Angeles 🇮🇳
- Indonesian Los Angeles 🇮🇩
- Inuit Los Angeles
- Iranian Los Angeles 🇮🇷
- Irish Los Angeles 🇮🇪
- Islamic Los Angeles ☪️
- Jamaican Los Angeles 🇯🇲
- Japanese Los Angeles 🇯🇵
- Kazakh Los Angeles 🇰🇿
- Kenyan Los Angeles 🇰🇪
- Korean Los Angeles 🇰🇷 🇰🇵
- Laotian Los Angeles 🇱🇦
- Malaysian Los Angeles 🇲🇾
- Mongolian Los Angeles 🇲🇳
- Moroccan Los Angeles 🇲🇦
- Nepali Los Angeles 🇳🇵
- Nigerian Los Angeles 🇳🇬
- Oaxacan Los Angeles
- Pakistani Los Angeles 🇵🇰
- Palestinian Los Angeles 🇵🇸
- Peruvian Los Angeles 🇵🇪
- Puerto Rican Los Angeles 🇵🇷
- Salvadoran Los Angeles 🇸🇻
- Samoan Los Angeles 🇦🇸🇼🇸
- Singaporean Los Angeles 🇸🇬
- Somali Los Angeles 🇸🇴
- South African Los Angeles 🇿🇦
- Sri Lankan Los Angeles 🇱🇰
- Taiwanese Los Angeles 🇹🇼
- Tajik Los Angeles 🇹🇯
- Thai Los Angeles 🇹🇭
- Tongan Los Angeles 🇹🇴
- Tongva Los Angeles
- Ukrainian Los Angeles 🇺🇦
- Uyghur Los Angeles 🏴
- Uzbek Los Angeles 🇺🇿
- Vietnamese Los Angeles 🇻🇳
- Welsh Los Angeles 🏴
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How about Jewish LA?
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I’m down… although it will be quite an undertaking!
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Would love to read more about Belizeans in LA!
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That’s a good idea!
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Nothing about Jewish, Israeli or Persian Los Angeles???
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Not yet! I’m only one person doing this work with the financial support of just single patron. If you become a Patron, I will begin work on writing about one of those communities. Deal?
https://www.patreon.com/ericbrightwell
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