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Middle Eastern Americans are Americans with origins or citizenship from the Middle East. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the term "Middle Eastern American" applies to anyone of Western Asian and North African (Middle Eastern) extraction. This definition includes both diasporic peoples (i.e. Jews, Kurds, Druze, etc.) and current immigrants from modern-day countries of the Arab League, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Turkey and the Central Asian republics. Middle Eastern communities have been settling in America since at least the Dutch colonial period of New Amsterdam, when Sephardic Jews fleeing persecution in Brazil found refuge there in 1654.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jews in America: New Amsterdam's Jewish Crusader (1655) )〕 == Population == The population of Middle Eastern Americans totals at least 10 million, combining the estimates for the Arab-American (3.7 million) and the Jewish-American (6.5 million) populations alone. This comes to more than 3.1% of the 318 million people in the US as of 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=U.S. and World Population Clock )〕 82% of Middle Eastern Americans are U.S. citizens, with 63% born in the U.S. The population of Middle-Eastern Americans includes both Arabs and non-Arabs. In their definitions of Middle Eastern Americans, U.S. Census Bureau and the National Health Interview Survey include peoples from Armenia, Cyprus, Iran, Israel, Turkey, and Central Asia. According to the 2010 US Census, California had the largest Middle Eastern immigrant population, counting nearly 400,000 people. Of states with the most Middle Eastern immigrants, Virginia has the fastest growing population, followed by Texas, Michigan, and New York. 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「Middle Eastern Americans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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