Having a blast in Houston, TX 💯, the most diverse city in the nation according to @wallethub in 2021...Houston has large populations of immigrants from across Asia and the largest Vietnamese American population in Texas and third-largest in the United States. The 1877 Houston City Directory listed three ethnic Chinese who worked in laundries, and the 1880 United States Census listed seven Chinese living in the city.In 1910 30 Asians lived in Houston. 20 were Japanese and 10 were Chinese. The Chinese were the only ethnic group with a significant settlement pattern in Houston until the 1970s. The lack of Asian immigration in Greater Houston was due to historical restrictions on Asian Americans. The 1965 Immigration Act, which had ended the restrictions, allowed an increase in Chinese Americans. The number increased to 121 by the start of World War II. In the 1970s large-scale Asian immigration to Houston began. In 1980 48,000 Asians lived in Greater Houston. The amount of Asian immigration increased in the 1980s. According to a 2002 survey of 500 Asian Americans in Harris County overseen by Stephen Klineberg, a professor at Rice University, Asian immigrants have substantially lower household income than Anglo residents and other immigrant groups, while they have higher levels of education. A flux of Vietnamese refugees immigrated to Houston after the Vietnam War and continued after, making the Vietnamese community the largest Asian ethnic group in Harris County by 1990 at 24.5%. When Vietnamese refugees first settled in the coastal town of Seadrift, Texas, they encountered prejudice and resentment from some of the locals. It culminated on Nov. 25, 1979, when the Ku Klux Klan came to the fishing village. They menaced the Vietnamese fishermen who were competing with native white fishermen and told them to get off the water and get out of town. This was part of the hostile reception given to the 130,000 Vietnamese refugees who came to the U.S. after the fall of Saigon. Sources @abc13houston @houstonpubmedia @wikipedia #goinghomeagainproject #houston #asianamerican #aapidiaspora 🇻🇳✨