Apud necoandjeff <spam@schrepfer.com> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:

>You obviously haven't visited. What is unique about California isn't our
>sophistication (well there's that too), it is the number of Asians and Asian
>Americans we have living here.

A bit like Melbourne & Sydney, although we're spared the Asian 
Americans....   8-)}

I think I've told the story I heard from a lecturer in Australian
Studies at 同志社大学 who organizes trips for her students. A couple
of students complained mightily that they'd been told they'd be
home-staying with Australian families and then they found they were 
actually staying with *Chinese*. The fact that the families were
2nd or 3rd gen. Australian didn't cut any ice; they weren't white,
so according to the students they weren't really Australian.

-- 
Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Computer Science & Software Engineering,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学