Speaking of assimilation. Asian are the fastest assimilation in the US society, but why are we still treated as foreigners? I'm third generation Chinese-American, but I still get asked where are you from? Can you speak Chinese. Same thing as someone from a Latin background. If you are European decedent except from Spain, then you wont be asked 20 questions about language or heritage vs. someone who is Asian, or Latin. Am I assimilated, yes, but why I don't find Asian decedents especially Asian males in mainstream society. Can someone answer this question? Also, my ancestors has been here since the mid 1800s.
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KSJO to go ethnic
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radiogooroo said:
The second generation always assimilates, whether they be of Italian background (my forebearers), or Chinese or Mexican. The second generation learns English fluently, but they also keep their family language so they can talk with the elders. In this regard there is no difference between immigrants of different countries. First generation Poles spoke Polish, second generation spoke Polish and English. Third generation was English almost exclusively. I'm 3rd generation Italian on my grandfather's side. I speak no Italian; my mom was bilingual, my grandfather was Italian-only.
What people are really objecting to I believe is a massive immigration into the U.S. that this country hasn't seen since the 1910s. Back on those days (1870s-1910s) there were far more immigrants arriving here than there are now, or a far larger percentage anyway.
e-dawg said:
Well If your Black or White You are automatically labled as Main Stream American. As A Pinoy Man
I am ususally asked if I am Mexican or Chinese by Chinese Women and Mexican Women. They don't know what Filipino is until they listen to me speak Tagalog on the Phone or call my Pinoy friends to watch a Pacquiao Boxing match. I am Pinoy Born in the USA. Also Pinoys landed in Santa Barbara CA via Spanish Convoy in 1521.
I have many Filipino friends as well as coworkers and I know the difference between Filipinos and Chinese or Mexican, In fact, I live in Stockton,CA which at one time had the largest Filipino population in the West Coast. In fact, for many years, Stockton was dubbed "Little Manila" at one time.recto101 said:
Madmansam said:
Also Daly City and Vallejo have large Pinoy residents. But I noticed that some actors like Lou Diamond Philips is Supposedly a Pinoy by the Pinoy Media But most of his movies are either Hispanic or Native American. And Liza Lapira of NCIS she plays a Chinese-American but she is A Pinay. I say I hope KSJO can sell the Chinese Format Well on FM. Has other cities in the USA done Chinese on FM Before. If all the other races can be main streamed then I hope Charice and Pacquiao really mainstream Pinoys too. Even Muslims in some areas of the USA are more Mainstreamed than Pinoys. HHave any other languages hit FM Besides Chinese and Spanish in most cities in the USA.
radioguy39nj said:I still recall walking into my grandmother's Brooklyn home in the 1950s and hearing Italian programming on the radio. I believe the station was then WOV. WEVD was the Yiddish station.
By the late 1960s, Italian programming was gone. The Jewish Forward continued own WEVD for many years at several different spots on the AM and FM dial. In 2001, WEVD vanished from the New York dial and currently operates as WEPN (1050 ESPN). WOV is now WADO, a Spanish news station.
Some Italian programming was heard in the 80s (and early 90s) on WNWK-FM 105.9 out of Newark. Ditto German programming. There was also a German show up until a few years ago on WFUV-FM 90.7 but that's gone now.
Also, there is still a full-time Italian station in NYC -- it's called ICN (Italian Communications Network) and operates on the 67 khz subcarrier of WBGO-FM 88.3/Newark.
Radio Maria also has a full-time Italian service on one of the subcarriers of WBAI-99.5 FM. Don't know if it's 92 or 67K, however.
StephanieNYC said:radioguy39nj said:I still recall walking into my grandmother's Brooklyn home in the 1950s and hearing Italian programming on the radio. I believe the station was then WOV. WEVD was the Yiddish station.
By the late 1960s, Italian programming was gone. The Jewish Forward continued own WEVD for many years at several different spots on the AM and FM dial. In 2001, WEVD vanished from the New York dial and currently operates as WEPN (1050 ESPN). WOV is now WADO, a Spanish news station.
Some Italian programming was heard in the 80s (and early 90s) on WNWK-FM 105.9 out of Newark. Ditto German programming. There was also a German show up until a few years ago on WFUV-FM 90.7 but that's gone now.
Also, there is still a full-time Italian station in NYC -- it's called ICN (Italian Communications Network) and operates on the 67 khz subcarrier of WBGO-FM 88.3/Newark.
Radio Maria also has a full-time Italian service on one of the subcarriers of WBAI-99.5 FM. Don't know if it's 92 or 67K, however.
Very interesting! Rai Italia and The Jewish Channel are also available on some NY area cable TV systems.
Wasn't the original KBRG-105.3 ethnic?
Wasn't the original format of the old original KBRG-105.3, some sort of International Format in the 1970's before changing to Spanish (and much later to Hot Hits KITS)? If i recall, I thought that they were brokered varied ethnic with several different languages including Russian, Italian, Mandarin, Cantonese, etc.
Wasn't the original format of the old original KBRG-105.3, some sort of International Format in the 1970's before changing to Spanish (and much later to Hot Hits KITS)? If i recall, I thought that they were brokered varied ethnic with several different languages including Russian, Italian, Mandarin, Cantonese, etc.
e-dawg said:
However, in some studies done in US/Mexico border markets, it was found that there is a very interesting as to why immigrants to the US did not listen much to the stations from the Mexican side that principally programmed for Mexico. The reason: the immigrants had come to the US for better opportunities and did not want to listen to stations with commercials for stores and products they could no longer patronize and which reminded them of the place they had to leave to be able to get ahead in life.
DJ Mo said:
I think the chinese music they want to test just like the mexican music
before the year 2000, it's hard to find mexican music on the fm dial and today it's a ton. Rock music will become a minority in the bay area.....
better stick with sat radio, mp3 players, cable music, streaming-radio and fm it's junk.
Re: Wasn't the original KBRG-105.3 ethnic?
KBRG 105.3 was classical, then went to Spanish language contemporary in about 1967 or so. It remained with that for years until the KITS callsign and format change, I forget when, maybe 1980? Anyhow, I believe it was the program director who went to KFMR 104.9 and brought various DJs and programs with him and changed the callsign to KBRG.
Madmansam said:
KBRG 105.3 was classical, then went to Spanish language contemporary in about 1967 or so. It remained with that for years until the KITS callsign and format change, I forget when, maybe 1980? Anyhow, I believe it was the program director who went to KFMR 104.9 and brought various DJs and programs with him and changed the callsign to KBRG.
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