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Tamil Americans

October 25, 2023

Tamil Americans (Tamil: தமிழ் அமெரிக்கர்கள், romanized: tamiḻ amerikkarkaḷ) are Americans who are of Tamil origin. The majority of Tamil Americans come from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Significant minorities are from other Indian states like Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, etc., as well as from other countries like Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore.

Tamil Americans
தமிழ் அமெரிக்கர்கள்
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In 2000, the number of Tamil speakers in the US numbered approximately 50,000 individuals. By 2010 the number surged to 127,892 and grew to 238,699 by 2020. The growth of the Tamil population in the United States is attributed to the H-1B visa program, and the presence of a large number of Tamil students studying in American universities.

Demographics Edit

In the second half of the 20th century, Tamils from India migrated as skilled professionals to the United States, Canada, Europe, and Southeast Asia. The Tamil American population exceeds 1,500,000 individuals.[2] The Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America functions as an umbrella organization for the growing community.[3]

Central New Jersey is home to the largest population concentration of Tamil Americans. Sizeable populations of Indian American Tamils have also settled in New York City, and New Jersey and New York house separate Tamil Sangams.[4] The Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and the Research Triangle area on the East Coast as well as Silicon Valley on the West Coast also have Tamil associations.[5]

The New York City and Los Angeles metropolitan areas are home to the largest concentrations of Tamil-speaking Sri Lankan Americans.[6][7][8] New York City's Staten Island alone is estimated to be home to more than 5,000 Sri Lankan Americans,[9] one of the largest Sri Lankan populations outside Sri Lanka itself,[10] and a significant proportion of whom speak Tamil.

 
The New York City Metropolitan Area, including Central New Jersey, as well as Long Island and Staten Island in New York, is home to the largest Tamil American (தமிழ் அமெரிக்கர்கள்) population.

Language Edit

The Indian Tamil community in the United States is largely bilingual. Tamil is taught in weekly classes in many Hindu temples and by associations such as the American Tamil Academy in South Brunswick, New Jersey and the Tamil Jersey School in Jersey City.[11][12]

The language's written form is highly formal and quite distinct from the spoken form. A few universities, such as the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley, have graduate programs in the language.[13]

Religion Edit

The Indian Tamil community is majority-wise connected to the Hindu community. In most Hindu temples in the United States, the prayers are in Sanskrit. However, in North Brunswick, New Jersey, the "Tamil Temple" ("Tamil Annai Thirukkoyil") conducts all the prayers in the Tamil language. The Hindu Temple in Houston, Texas, is dedicated to Meenakshi, a manifestation of the goddess Parvathi. There are also active Tamil Christian and Muslim minorities, as well as Jains and Buddhists. Tamil Muslims also hold a Tamil Muslim Community Sangam-Iman America/QMFUSA[14]

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References Edit

  1. ^ "Commuting Times, Median Rents and Language other than English Use in the Home on the Rise". December 7, 2017. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
  2. ^ US Census 2006–2008 American Community Survey See Row# 125
  3. ^ . Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2013-04-01.
  4. ^ New Jersey Tamil Sangam
  5. ^ Bay Area Tamil Manram 2010-10-27 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2012 Supplemental Table 2". U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved 2013-03-31.
  7. ^ "Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2011 Supplemental Table 2". U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved 2013-03-31.
  8. ^ "Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2010 Supplemental Table 2". U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved 2013-03-31.
  9. ^ Kirk Semple (2013-06-08). "Sri Lankans have gathered on Staten Island,..." The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-06-09.
  10. ^ "Why Staten Island?". Little Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2015-07-25.
  11. ^ See "School offers Tamil language classes" Sentinel Sept. 4, 2014
  12. ^ Holy Haber (December 2016). "D-FW donors give biggest contribution to Harvard chair in Tamil literature". Retrieved December 13, 2018.
  13. ^ Vasudha Narayanan, "Tamils" in David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds. American immigrant cultures: builders of a nation (1997). p. 878.
  14. ^ Narayanan, "Tamils," p. 877.

Further reading Edit

  • Fuller, C. J. & Haripriya Narasimhan (2014). Tamil Brahmans: The Making of a Middle-Class Caste. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226152882.
  • Narayanan, Vasudha, "Tamils" in David Levinson and Melvin Ember, ed. (1997). American immigrant cultures: builders of a nation. Simon & Schuster Macmillan. pp. 874–79.
  • Underwood, Kelsey Clark (1986). Negotiating Tamil Identity in India and the United States. PhD thesis, University of California, Berkeley.
  • Underwood, Kelsey Clark. "Image and Identity: Tamils' Migration to the United States." Papers Kroeber Anthropological Society (1986): 65+

October 25, 2023
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DetroitLanguagesPredominantly TamilEnglishReligionPredominantly Hinduism Minority IslamChristianityJainismRelated ethnic groupsTamil peopleIndian AmericansSri Lankan AmericansMalaysian AmericansSingaporean AmericansIn 2000 the number of Tamil speakers in the US numbered approximately 50 000 individuals By 2010 the number surged to 127 892 and grew to 238 699 by 2020 The growth of the Tamil population in the United States is attributed to the H 1B visa program and the presence of a large number of Tamil students studying in American universities Contents 1 Demographics 2 Language 3 Religion 4 Notable people 4 1 Academia 4 2 Arts amp Entertainment 4 3 Business 4 4 News amp Journalism 4 5 Politics amp Law 4 6 Religion 4 7 Sports 5 References 6 Further readingDemographics EditIn the second half of the 20th century Tamils from India migrated as skilled professionals to the United States Canada Europe and Southeast Asia The Tamil American population exceeds 1 500 000 individuals 2 The Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America functions as an umbrella organization for the growing community 3 Central New Jersey is home to the largest population concentration of Tamil Americans Sizeable populations of Indian American Tamils have also settled in New York City and New Jersey and New York house separate Tamil Sangams 4 The Washington D C metropolitan area and the Research Triangle area on the East Coast as well as Silicon Valley on the West Coast also have Tamil associations 5 The New York City and Los Angeles metropolitan areas are home to the largest concentrations of Tamil speaking Sri Lankan Americans 6 7 8 New York City s Staten Island alone is estimated to be home to more than 5 000 Sri Lankan Americans 9 one of the largest Sri Lankan populations outside Sri Lanka itself 10 and a significant proportion of whom speak Tamil nbsp The New York City Metropolitan Area including Central New Jersey as well as Long Island and Staten Island in New York is home to the largest Tamil American தம ழ அம ர க கர கள population Language EditThe Indian Tamil community in the United States is largely bilingual Tamil is taught in weekly classes in many Hindu temples and by associations such as the American Tamil Academy in South Brunswick New Jersey and the Tamil Jersey School in Jersey City 11 12 The language s written form is highly formal and quite distinct from the spoken form A few universities such as the University of Chicago and the University of California Berkeley have graduate programs in the language 13 Religion EditThe Indian Tamil community is majority wise connected to the Hindu community In most Hindu temples in the United States the prayers are in Sanskrit However in North Brunswick New Jersey the Tamil Temple Tamil Annai Thirukkoyil conducts all the prayers in the Tamil language The Hindu Temple in Houston Texas is dedicated to Meenakshi a manifestation of the goddess Parvathi There are also active Tamil Christian and Muslim minorities as well as Jains and Buddhists Tamil Muslims also hold a Tamil Muslim Community Sangam Iman America QMFUSA 14 Notable people EditAcademia Edit Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Raj Chetty Economist professor of economics at Harvard University renowned for his research on equality of opportunity in the United States G V Loganathan Professor and a victim of the Virginia Tech massacre C Mohan Computer scientist Sendhil Mullainathan Economist Harvard professor Sethuraman Panchanathan Executive Vice President Knowledge Enterprise Development and Chief Research Innovation Officer at Arizona State University Arogyaswami Paulraj Wireless researcher winner of Marconi Prize V S Ramachandran Physician neuroscientist director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California San Diego Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Structural biologist and Nobel laureate Maya Shankar Scientist Siva Sivananthan Academic scientist businessman and Director of the Microphysics Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago Subra Suresh Former President of Carnegie Mellon University Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah Social anthropologist S R Srinivasa Varadhan Mathematician Sudhir Venkatesh Sociologist and urban ethnographerArts amp Entertainment Edit Ashok Amritraj Indian American film producer Aziz Ansari Actor and stand up comedian Sunkrish Bala Actor Jay Chandrasekhar Actor and director Vijay Iyer Pianist Poorna Jagannathan Actress and producer Clarence Jey Record producer and songwriter Mindy Kaling Actress Padma Lakshmi Author actress model television host Mary Anne Mohanraj Writer Sendhil Ramamurthy Film and television actor M Night Shyamalan Film director S J Sindu Writer Rajan Somasundaram Music composer songwriter and multi instrumentalist Prashanth Venkataramanujam Actor television writer and producer head writer and producer of Patriot Act Divya Victor PoetBusiness Edit Krishna Bharat Computer scientist founder of Google News Vasant Narasimhan chief executive officer CEO of Novartis Indra Nooyi chairwoman and former CEO of PepsiCo Incorporated Sundar Pichai chief executive officer CEO of Google C K Prahalad Late world renowned management guru Raghuram Rajan Economist winner of Fischer Black Prize Ram Shriram Billionaire venture capitalist Raj Rajaratnam Founder of Galleon Group Chandrika Tandon Businesswoman and artistNews amp Journalism Edit Sukanya Krishnan News anchor Hari Sreenivasan Broadcast journalistPolitics amp Law Edit Kamala Harris Vice President of the United States Maya Harris Lawyer public policy advocate and television commentator Raja Krishnamoorthi U S Representative from Illinois Nimi McConigley Former U S Representative from Wyoming Visvanathan Rudrakumaran Prime Minister of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam Sri Srinivasan United States circuit judge Savita Vaidhyanathan Politician former mayor of Cupertino Vivek Ramaswamy Entrepreneur author and candidate in the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries from OhioReligion Edit Ananda Coomaraswamy Philosopher amp Historian John Prabhudoss Current Chairman of the Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations FIACONA Sports Edit Vijay Amritraj Indian American tennis player and commentatorReferences Edit Commuting Times Median Rents and Language other than English Use in the Home on the Rise December 7 2017 Retrieved December 12 2017 US Census 2006 2008 American Community Survey See Row 125 ABOUT FETNA Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America Archived from the original on 2013 01 16 Retrieved 2013 04 01 New Jersey Tamil Sangam Bay Area Tamil Manram Archived 2010 10 27 at the Wayback Machine Yearbook of Immigration Statistics 2012 Supplemental Table 2 U S Department of Homeland Security Retrieved 2013 03 31 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics 2011 Supplemental Table 2 U S Department of Homeland Security Retrieved 2013 03 31 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics 2010 Supplemental Table 2 U S Department of Homeland Security Retrieved 2013 03 31 Kirk Semple 2013 06 08 Sri Lankans have gathered on Staten Island The New York Times Retrieved 2013 06 09 Why Staten Island Little Sri Lanka Retrieved 2015 07 25 See School offers Tamil language classes Sentinel Sept 4 2014 Holy Haber December 2016 D FW donors give biggest contribution to Harvard chair in Tamil literature Retrieved December 13 2018 Vasudha Narayanan Tamils in David Levinson and Melvin Ember eds American immigrant cultures builders of a nation 1997 p 878 Narayanan Tamils p 877 Further reading EditFuller C J amp Haripriya Narasimhan 2014 Tamil Brahmans The Making of a Middle Class Caste University of Chicago Press ISBN 9780226152882 Narayanan Vasudha Tamils in David Levinson and Melvin Ember ed 1997 American immigrant cultures builders of a nation Simon amp Schuster Macmillan pp 874 79 Underwood Kelsey Clark 1986 Negotiating Tamil Identity in India and the United States PhD thesis University of California Berkeley Underwood Kelsey Clark Image and Identity Tamils Migration to the United States Papers Kroeber Anthropological Society 1986 65 Portals nbsp Tamils nbsp India nbsp Sri Lanka nbsp Singapore nbsp Asia Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Tamil Americans amp oldid 1171122819, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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