Manilatown
| Little Manila | |
Little Manila in Woodside, Queens, New York City
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| Filipino name | |
|---|---|
| Tagalog | Maynilang Maliit |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 10,455,788 - 13,500,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Countries with over 100,000 overseas Filipinos (2010) | |
 United States
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3,166,529 |
 Saudi Arabia
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1,512,539 |
 Canada
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667,674 |
 UAE
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636,154 |
 Australia
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345,592 |
 Malaysia
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316,273 |
 Qatar
|
305,331 |
 Japan
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290,358 |
 United Kingdom
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196,740 |
 Italy
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123,379 |
 Hong Kong
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120,000 |
 Israel
|
100,000 |
 Germany
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62,978 |
 Spain
|
51,268 |
 New Zealand
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40,301 |
 Ireland
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18,793 |
 Thailand
|
5,212 |
 Nigeria
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4,844 |
 South Africa
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3,932 |
 Poland
|
701 |
| Languages | |
| Philippine languages, English, Spanish | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Christianity (Roman Catholicism, Protestantism and Iglesia ni Cristo) · Islam. | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Filipinos | |
A Little Manila (also known as a Manilatown or Filipinotown) is a community with a large Filipino immigrant and descendant population. Little Manilas are enclaves of Overseas Filipinos consisting of people of Filipino origin living outside of the Philippines. This term applies to Filipinos who are both abroad indefinitely as citizens or permanent residents of a different country, and to those Filipino citizens abroad for a limited, definite period, such as on a work contract or as students. It can also include seamen and others who work outside the Philippines, but are neither permanent nor temporary residents of another country.
According to Rick Bonus, author of Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space, "...Filipinos only deal with Filipinos." The author means that in a Filipino society is very "tightly bound" and tend to only purchase Filipino products only from known Filipino grocery stores, even though the same products may be available at more mainstream retailers.
Many Filipinos who grow up in a Filipino enclave experience a yearning only for Filipino food. For example, one author stated that "... my stomach was trained at an early age to love Filipino food. I ate (sweet pork) and longanisa (sweet sausage) for breakfast, and had adobo, pancit, and beef caldereta for dinner... White kids... would make faces at my food and ask what I was eating."
According to an article, the percentage of Filipinos living below the poverty line is among the lowest among other Asian groups with the third highest income level averaging around $65,000 U.S. dollars. Sterngass further states that education is a priority in this culture as well.
The 2010 U.S. Census, counted approximately 1.2 million Filipino Americans (not including multiracial persons) in California, by far the largest number in the United States.Greater Los Angeles is the metropolitan area home to the most Filipino Americans, with the population numbering over 600,000.Los Angeles County alone accounts for 374,285 Filipinos, the most of any single county in the United States. The San Francisco Bay Area is the metropolitan area with the second largest number of Filipino Americans in the U.S., with a population of over 460,000 as of the 2010 Census. Elsewhere in the state, San Diego County has the second largest Filipino American population of any county in the nation, with a population of about 180,000, and in the Central Valley has a significant and historic Filipino population.
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