"the only Asian I know"

[Gordon Fitch]

>>> Came back recently from a week in New York City and I can't say that I
>>> remember seeing any Asians.

Jordan Hayes wrote:
> >So you didn't bother going to Chinatown at all?

kjkhoo at softhome.net:
> Surely it doesn't have to be Chinatown only -- that's almost 
> pathetically stereotypical.
> 
> But just take another stereotype -- Upper Westside, around Columbia 
> area; around NYU area -- it'd be almost impossible not to have run 
> into any Asians, whether taken broadly or more narrowly as those of E 
> Asian descent.

I don't see very many persons of visibly Asian descent in the
public parks, museums, concerts of the sort I'm likely to
attend (except Indian classical music), or on the streets
generally except in the enclaves (e.g. Koreans in and around
West 32d Street).  I suppose this is some sort of cultural
phenomenon, maybe a complex one.

-- Gordon