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Originally Posted by eschaton
It's really hard to tell, considering the Census doesn't distinguish between South and East Asian. That said, my understanding is there are South Asian enclaves in NYC (mostly Queens) which are a mix of Punjabi, Bangladeshi, and Indo-Guyanese/Indo-Trinidadian. I also think Bellerose is an Indian neighborhood in Queens.
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Yeah, there are plenty of urban South Asian enclaves in the NYC area. Mostly in Queens, but Brooklyn/Bronx have heavily Muslim South Asian enclaves. I can walk to a Bangladeshi community in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn, on the other side of Prospect Park. There's a Pakistani community right next to Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, on Coney Island Avenue. And Jersey City has heavily South Asian urban neighborhoods. And of course the Guyanese, in Queens/Bronx.
I wasn't referring to the working class urban enclaves, but more the affluent, core precincts. Since the South Asian population in U.S. leans affluent, you'd think there would be some in the core districts. But they seem most concentrated in McMansion-land, with very little presence in urban cores and in traditional streetcar/railroad suburbia. Very few South Asians in the Dariens and Winnetkas, despite the excellent schools. Very few on the Upper West Side or in Pacific Heights.
Probably similar in Canada. Don't think there are many South Asians in Toronto's favored quarter along Yonge, but there are a ton in outer areas, like Brampton. You'd probably never guess Toronto was close to 20% South Asian if you stuck to the core neighborhoods.