Under the Same Sky

Under the Same Sky: Indian population

Mon Sep 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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  (KTSF By Jo Wan) There is an old joke circulating around Silicon Valley : “Silicon Valley is built on an Integrated Circuit – IC.” They aren’t referring to chips, but to Indian and Chinese [...]

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Under the Same Sky: Education in Cupertino

Mon Sep 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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  (KTSF By Jo Wan) “I think kids education predominate the Asian community” says Cupertino resident Mahesh Nihalani. Many Chinese and Indian immigrants moved to Cupertino for it’s well known high achieving primary and secondary [...]

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Under the Same Sky: History of Cupertino

Mon Sep 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

  (KTSF By Jo Wan) When people talk about Cupertino, people think the well known headquarters of Apple Inc. Before the middle of the 20th century, Cupertino was still a village with orchards and farms. [...]

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Under the Same Sky: The Excelsior District: The Italian American community

Sat Sep 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

  (KTSF by Lynne Ku) In the early days, the Excelsior district was predominantly populated by Italians, Irish and Swiss. Most of the European immigrants who came to the United States had similar goals – [...]

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Under the Same Sky: The Excelsior District: The Latino American community

Fri Sep 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment

  (KTSF by Lynne Ku) The Excelsior District in San Francisco is famous for its multi-cultural community. It’s a diverse neighborhood with working families coming from different immigrant communities. In the 1980s, there were several [...]

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Under the Same Sky: The Excelsior District: The growing population of Chinese: Political influence in the future

Wed Sep 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

  (KTSF by Lynne Ku) The Excelsior has always been a neighborhood of working families: Parents go to work and their children go to school. May Wong, the newly elected president of the Excelsior District [...]

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