California dreaming. Part 3 -People

The people we have come in contact with in this part of California have, in most cases been incredible friendly, as opposeod to most of us stayed Brits that is. They have only been too willing to chat a few words to us, and when they say "have a nice day " they usually mean it. My only gripe is sometimes they are a little loud with the odd hooping, but hey its their country and if they want to hoop well its their right. I find the racial mix here very interesting, UCR, where our son works in 2007 published an analysis of their racial mix ; Asian Americans 43% Hispanic Americans 27% Caucasian Americans 22% African Americans 7% American Indians 0.5% others 0.5% The Asian component is made up of Chineese, Japanesse, Koreans with a relatively small Indian/Pakistani community. Walking around the campus, shopping malls etc it is interesting to observe very little inter racial groups ,even as friends and colleagues. Also these groupings tend to converse in their mother tongue. This tho to some extent supported by multiple tv programs available in their own languages. The US education system is conducted solely in english, which means many people are truely bi-linguel a skill much admired by myself.