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Taiwanese Americans in Los Angeles
There is a large Taiwanese and Taiwanese American community in the Greater Los Angeles Area. The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan area had a Taiwanese population of 83,294 as of 2008. At 24.3% of the total Taiwanese-American population, the Taiwanese community in Greater Los Angeles represents the largest Taiwanese community in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/taiwanese-immigrants-united-states-0/ )〕
==History==
Taiwanese immigration to the United States was limited in the years before World War II, due to Japanese rule as well as the Immigration Act of 1924, which completely barred immigration from Asia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/immigration-act )〕 From World War II to 1965, a small number of students studied throughout the United States. After the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which loosened restrictions and gave preference to skilled workers, many came as students and stayed, partly due to better economic conditions in the U.S. and due to a repressive political climate back home.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/taiwanese-immigrants-united-states-0/ )〕
Many Taiwanese settled in the suburbs, notably Monterey Park, which eventually became to be known as “Little Taipei”, in no small part due to real estate developer Frederic Hsieh. In 1970, two years before Hsieh bought his first property, Monterey Park, whom he billed as the “Chinese Beverly Hills” was onlly 15 percent Asian, of which most were Japanese. Hsieh used a variety of methods to promote Monterey Park to the new immigrants from Taiwan, such as highlighting the city's telephone area code 818—the number 8 being considered lucky in Chinese culture—and Monterey Park’s high-achieving schools. By 1994, of the destinations listed by Chinese immigrants, Monterey Park, Alhambra, and Rosemead were among the top six most popular. By 1996, at least two-thirds of Monterey Park's 5,000 businesses were owned by people with Taiwanese or Hong Kong origins, and Monterey Park had a Chinese mayor and a predominantly Asian city council. The demographic change brought tension to the community, to the point where a local gas station displayed a sign that said: "Will the last American to leave Monterey Park please bring the flag?," and the city council debated whether to make English the official language and force businesses to put up English language signs. However, tensions eventually abated.
Later, growth slowed as many wealthier Taiwanese moved farther out to the San Gabriel Valley in the east and Orange County in the south. Immigration slowed in the late 1980s and 1990s due to the 1987 lifting of martial law and a rising economy. Fewer students were studying in the United States and of those who did, fewer were staying in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/taiwanese-immigrants-united-states-0/ )〕
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