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Hong Kong Americans are an Americans of Hong Kong ancestry. Hong Kong has since 1997 been a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China; from 1841 to 1997 it was a British crown colony. According to the 2012 American Community Survey from the U.S. Census Bureau, there are 219,231 Americans who are born in Hong Kong,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2012 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000 )〕 a figure that excludes immigrants from Hong Kong who were born elsewhere, and American-born descendants of these immigrants. Currently, there are over 330,000 Hong Kong immigrants to the United States.〔http://www.ocac.gov.tw/download.asp?tag=P&file=DownFile/File_1619.pdf&no=1619〕 This makes the United States the third largest home of Hong Kong diaspora, behind Hong Kong and Canada. Many of the Hong Kong Americans hold both United States citizenship and right of abode in Hong Kong. Other than the US passport, many of them also hold HKSAR Passport and British National (Overseas) passport. ==History== After the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, an influx of Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong immigrants settled in Chinatown, San Francisco, California, and Chinatown, Manhattan, New York. In Chinatown neighborhoods, many Hong Kong immigrants opened businesses such as Chinese restaurants and supermarkets.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chinatown History )〕 During the 1980s and the 1990s, a large number of high-skilled Hong Kong immigrants settled in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, and the San Francisco Bay Area, where many were employed by high-technology companies in Silicon Valley. Many of the Hong Kong immigrants in the Bay Area resided in suburban communities, such as Burlingame, South San Francisco, and San Mateo, and in the Richmond District and Sunset District in San Francisco.〔Foley, Michael (2007). Religion and the New Immigrants : How Faith Communities Form Our Newest. Page 42. Oxford: Oxford University Press.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hong Kong Americans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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