People of Southeast Asian descent in the United States
Ethnic group
Southeast Asian Americans| Regions with significant populations |
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| Continental United States, smaller populations inAlaska andHawaii |
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American English
Burmese,Hmong,Iu Mien,Javanese,Khmer,Lao,Malay,Tagalog,Thai,Vietnamese, otherSoutheast Asian languages |
| Religion |
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MainlyBuddhism,Christianity,Hinduism, andIslam
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Southeast Asian Americans areAmericans ofSoutheast Asian ancestry. The term refers to those who can trace back their heritage to Southeast Asia, which includes the countries ofBrunei,Cambodia,East Timor,Indonesia,Laos,Malaysia,Myanmar,Philippines,Singapore,Thailand, andVietnam.[1][2] In theUnited States census, they are a subcategory ofAsian Americans, although individual racial classification is based on self-identification and the categorization is "not an attempt to define race biologically, anthropologically, or genetically".[3]
