http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/middlesex/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1161061794241380.xml&coll=1

Thanx

“As an aside, I encourage any desi visiting NYC area to stop by Edison/Iselin, specifically the fabled Oak Tree Road…especially on the weekend. Although it’s no comparison to my beloved Southall, it is a pretty amazing place…great restaurants, music/video/grocery stores, more jewelry shops than you could ever imagine, Bollywood dance classes, and just great atmosphere overall…I love having it nearby.”

Must add honorable mention for the delicious 50 cent samosas they sell at that little indoor food court, the name of which currently escapes me…yummmmmmmmm…

But “stop by” is a little misleading. Heck, it’ll take a half hour alone just to find a parking spot!

You’re probably looking at this thread and laughing

Well, now I am Okay, I’m just kidding.

at what we Americans consider to be high percentages of desis (at least compared to the UK).

Depends on your perspective, I guess. 2% is better than 0%, 10% is better than 2% and so on…..

From the transatlantic point of view, the US will not have a “high percentage of desis” until there are towns/cities whose South Asian populations constitute at least 30% of the total, a South Asian language ends up being the 2nd most widely-spoken tongue in the country, younger non-desis living in these areas are familiar with Hindi films and some of the major actors/actresses, every major nationwide news channel has at least two South Asian anchors, 2nd-Gen desis do not go berserk at the idea of other desis dating white people (and the depiction of such matters is commonplace in the national media & a non-issue from the perspective of the majority white population), and everyone is basically shagging everyone else regardless of their ethnicity.

So I think you guys have a little work to do. Get cracking !

Desis are definitely very ‘concentrated’ in Somerset-Middlesex counties of NJ, so even though the total population may rank 5th, I wouldn’t be surprised if the density of desis there ranks 1st, especially in terms of percent of total population From 2000 census, top 10 counties in the descending order of (sa/total)*100 are :

You are a SA numbers NERD like ME!!!!!! Dipanjan, what do you do for a living that you were able to whip out those numbers so quick? You didn’t cite, so were those your own numbers? Here’s a press release that was published recently on national growth.

I’m scheming, I’m scheming – I could use a number cruncher like you….

Amitabh: so you’re making the generalization that white frat boys are racist, etc. Isn’t that a tad unfair to them?

In New Jersey, the population grew by 35 percent from 170,000 in 2000 to 230,000 in 2005, according to the latest data. The state’s Asian population jumped by about 34 percent – from 480,000 in 2000 to 620,000 in 2005. The roughly 8.5 million people in New Jersey remain among the nation’s most diverse populations, according to the Northjersey.com website. “If I go to Jersey City, the waterfront, I see many youngsters who work in New York City and it almost looks like Bombay (Mumbai) to me,” Vidya Gupta, an Indian American professor of pediatrics at New York Medical College, told the website.

I don’t believe there is another state in the US (correct me if I’m wrong) where the actual population of desis exceeds 2 percent. And I believe this is a clue to anti-Indian racism (though not the whole story).

You’re probably looking at this thread and laughing at what we Americans consider to be high percentages of desis (at least compared to the UK).