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Asian Diaspora, United States (< Spring, 2007, p.69)

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U.S. Census 2000 includes 12 million Americans who identify themselves as Asian. The pie chart  is courtesy of Asian Women in Business . DIASPORA a group of people who share the experience of having left a common homeland and now live near each other in a new place People from Asia came to work and did not make enough money to return. Asians were 1 -2% of foreign-born; Europeans were 90%. Chinese:&nbsp 1850's arrival in time for the California Gold Rush (16K / 20K) &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 1860's transcontinental RR &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 1872 LA lynching Japanese: 1689 law in Japan forbade emigration &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 1868 silk HI, then in CA &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp 1885...
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Scarcity of running water and "The Dwarf" by Cho Se-hui": The Dwarf tapeworm

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adapted from this file:  Flag of South Korea.svg / Public domain Cho, Se-hŭi, Bruce Fulton, and Ju-Chan Fulton.  The Dwarf . , 2006. Print. First published in 1978  난장이가 쏘아 올린 작은 공 " A Little Ball that  a dwarf  launches " 1962:  18% piped water connections 1971:   intestinal helminth egg positive rate was 84.3%  ( Ascaris  58.2%,  Trichuris  65.4%, and hookworms 10.7%) helminth  eggs: life-threatening malnutrition, anemia, immunodeficiency Surveys every five years from 1971 to 2004 about 1975: wastewater collection and treatment facilities 1976:  63.2%     The Dwarf1978: first published, collection of previously published chapters 1981: 41.1%  1986: 12.9% 1992: 3.8% 1997: 2.4% 2004:  4.3%  (Ascaris 0.03%,  Trichuris  0.02%, and hookworms 0%) from CDC hymenolepiasis https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/hymenolepiasis/index.html https://blogs.worldbank.org/water/korea-model-development-wate...
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