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Vietnamese Americans ((ベトナム語:Người Mỹ gốc Việt)) are Americans of Vietnamese descent. They make up about half of all overseas Vietnamese (''Người Việt Hải Ngoại'') and are the fourth-largest Asian American ethnic group and have developed distinctive characteristics in America. Mass Vietnamese immigration to the United States started after 1975, after the end of the Vietnam War. Early immigrants were refugee boat people fleeing persecution or poverty. More than fifty percent of Vietnamese Americans reside in the states of California and Texas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Southeast Asian Americans State Populations 2010 U.S. Census )〕 ==Demographics== As a relatively recent immigrant group, most Vietnamese Americans are either first- or second-generation Americans. They have the lowest distribution of people with more than one race among the major Asian American groups. As many as one million people who are five years and older speak Vietnamese at home—making it the seventh-most spoken language in the United States. As refugees, Vietnamese Americans have some of the highest rates of naturalization. In the 2012 American Community Survey (ACS), 76% of foreign-born Vietnamese are naturalized US citizens compared to 67% of the foreign-born from South Eastern Asia and 46 percent of the total U.S. foreign-born population. Of those born outside the United States, 73.1% entered before 2000, 21.2% between 2000 and 2009, and 5.7% entered after 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】United States Census Bureau">title=2012 American Community Survey: Selected Population Profile in the United States )〕 According to the United States 2012 Census, there were 1,675,246 people who identify themselves as Vietnamese alone or 1,860,069 in combination with other ethnicities, representing the fourth largest foreign-born population from Asia, after India, the Philippines, and China.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_12_1YR_B02018&prodType=table )〕〔 Of those, California and Texas had highest concentration of Vietnamese American, which are 40 percent and 12 percent, respectively. The other followed states includes Washington State (4 percent), Florida (4 percent), and Virginia (3 percent).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/vietnamese-immigrants-united-states )〕 The largest number of Vietnamese outside of Vietnam is found in Orange County, California—totaling 184,153, or 6.1% of the county's population,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_12_5YR_DP05&prodType=table )〕 followed by Los Angeles County, and Santa Clara County. The three counties accounted for 26 percent of the Vietnamese immigrant population in the United States 〔 Vietnamese American businesses are ubiquitous in Little Saigon, located in the communities of Westminster and Garden Grove, where they constitute 40.2 and 27.7 percent of the population, respectively. About 41 percent of the Vietnamese immigrant population live in five major metropolitan areas in order from largest Vietnamese population to smallest are Los Angeles, San Jose, Houston, San Francisco, and Dallas-Fort Worth.〔 Recently, the Vietnamese immigration pattern has shifted to other states like Ohio (Cleveland), Oklahoma (Oklahoma City and Tulsa in particular) and Oregon (Portland in particular). Vietnamese Americans are much more likely to be Christians than Vietnamese who are residing in Vietnam. While Christians (mainly Roman Catholics) make up about 6% of Vietnam's total population, they compose as much as 23% of the total Vietnamese American population.〔Bankston, Carl L. III. 2000. "Vietnamese American Catholicism: Transplanted and Flourishing." U.S. Catholic Historian 18 (1): 36-53〕 Due to the hostility between Communists and Catholics in Vietnam, a disproportionate number of Catholics fled the country after the Communist takeover. 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「Vietnamese Americans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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