Editing Richardson, Texas (section)

=== Race and ethnicity ===
By 1990, 10% of the Richardson population was not born in the United States, which increased to 18.1% by 2000. According to the 2015 American Community Survey 5-year Estimates, this figure was 24.3%. As of 2015, of those not born in the United States, almost 50% had arrived in the United States after 2000.<ref name="Bureau" />

Dallas County has an estimated 275,000 Arab Americans, many of whom have settled in Richardson. Many of them have come from Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Yemen, Morocco, etc.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://yallacountmein.org/states/texas | title=Texas | date=June 5, 2019 }}</ref> The DFW Chinatown is located in Richardson, in part because of the large Asian population.<ref name="LightNanette">Light, Nanette. "[https://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/richardson-lake-highlands/headlines/20140221-three-decades-later-dallas-chinese-community-center-still-heart-of-asian-culture.ece Three decades later, Dallas Chinese Community Center still heart of Asian culture]" ({{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20141006122106/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/richardson-lake-highlands/headlines/20140221-three-decades-later-dallas-chinese-community-center-still-heart-of-asian-culture.ece Archive]}}). ''[[The Dallas Morning News]]''. February 21, 2014. Retrieved on September 22, 2014.</ref> Esther Wu, a former editor of the ''[[Dallas Morning News]]'', stated that Chinese immigration began in Richardson in 1975. Since then the Chinese community has expanded to the north.<ref name="Brenner">Brenner, Leslie. "[https://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/best-in-dfw/dining/20110309-best-in-dfw-chinese-restaurants.ece Best in DFW: Chinese restaurants]" ({{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140924062340/http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/best-in-dfw/dining/20110309-best-in-dfw-chinese-restaurants.ece Archive]}}). ''[[The Dallas Morning News]]''. March 9, 2011. Updated February 10, 2013. Retrieved on September 22, 2014.</ref> In the mid-1980s the majority of ethnic Chinese K–12 students in the DFW area resided in Richardson.<ref name="Kripke">Kripke, Pamela Gwyn. "[http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2012/june/why-30000-chinese-people-call-plano-texas-home Why 30,000 Chinese People Call Plano Home]" ({{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150122020824/http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2012/june/why-30000-chinese-people-call-plano-texas-home Archive]}}). ''[[D Magazine]]''. June 2012. Retrieved on September 27, 2014.</ref>

By 2012 [[North Texas]] had over 60 Chinese cultural organizations and most of them were headquartered in Richardson and Plano.<ref name="Kripke" /> The Dallas Chinese Community Center (DCCC; {{zh|t=达拉斯华人活动中心|p=Dálāsī Huárén Huódòngzhōngxīn}}) is in the D-FW Chinatown. It includes [[English as a second language]] (ESL) classes and 20,000 books written in [[Simplified Chinese]]; the center imported some books from People's Republic of Mainland China.<ref name="LightNanette" /> As of 2011 the Chinese restaurants catering to ethnic Chinese in DFW are mainly in Richardson and [[Plano, Texas|Plano]].<ref name="Brenner" /> The [[University of Texas at Dallas]] in Richardson, as of 2012, has almost 1,000 Chinese students. The university has a program to recruit students of Chinese origin.<ref name="Kripke" />

Richardson's Indian immigrant community has been primarily driven by the international telecommunications industry that is so prevalent in the community. The Indian Association of North Texas headquarters are in Richardson.<ref name="Brettellp56">Brettell, Caroline B. '"Big D" Incorporating New Immigrants in a Sunbelt Suburban Metropolis' (Chapter 3). In: Singer, Audrey, Susan Wiley Hardwick, and Caroline Brettell. ''Twenty-First Century Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America'' (James A. Johnson metro series). [[Brookings Institution Press]], 2009. {{ISBN|0815779283}}, 9780815779285. Start p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=bduAC5GaLScC&pg=PA53 53]. CITED: p.[https://books.google.com/books?id=bduAC5GaLScC&pg=PA56 56].</ref> Indo-Pak grocery store is located in an Indian-oriented strip shopping center east of [[Central Expressway (Dallas)|Central Expressway]].<ref name="Brettellp64">Brettell, Caroline B. '"Big D" Incorporating New Immigrants in a Sunbelt Suburban Metropolis' (Chapter 3). In: Singer, Audrey, Susan Wiley Hardwick, and Caroline Brettell. ''Twenty-First Century Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America'' (James A. Johnson metro series). [[Brookings Institution Press]], 2009. {{ISBN|0815779283}}, 9780815779285. Start p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=bduAC5GaLScC&pg=PA53 53]. CITED: p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=bduAC5GaLScC&pg=PA64 64].</ref> Of the suburbs in the DFW area, Richardson had one of the earliest Indian settlements.<ref name="Brettellp56" />

Richardson is home to a large community of [[Vietnamese Americans]] and even has a significant amount of Vietnamese-catering retail stores, malls, markets, and plazas, especially near [[U.S. Route 75 in Texas|U.S. 75]], such as the Hong Kong Market, the Cali Saigon Shopping Mall, etc.