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ADMISSION AS NONQUOTA IMMIGRANTS OF CERTAIN
ALIEN WIVES AND CHILDREN OF UNITED STATES CITIZENS
UNITED STATES SENATE,
SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION,
Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10.30 o'clock a. m., in room 201 Senate Office Building, Senator Henry W. Keyes presiding.
Present: Senators Keyes (chairman), Blease, and Gould, of the subcommittee.
The CHAIRMAN (Senator KEYES). The committee will come to order. This is a hearing by a subcommittee of the Committee on Immigration, to whom was referred, by the chairman of that committee, Senate bill 2271, introduced by Senator King, which will be inserted in the record at this point.
(The bill is here printed in full as follows:)
A BILL To permit the admission, as nonquota immigrants, of certain alien wives and children of United
States citizens
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That clause (1) of subdivision (c) of section 13 of the immigration act of 1924 is amended to read as follows: "(1) is admissible as a nonquota immigrant under the provisions of subdivision (a), (b), (d), or (e) of section 4 or."
Senator KEYES. Congressman Dyer, of St. Louis, I understand you have introduced a similar bill in the House, and you may make any statement you care to.
STATEMENT OF HON. LEONIDAS C. DYER, A REPRESENTATIVE
IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF MISSOURI
Mr. DYER. Gentlemen, this bill S. 2271 is for the purpose of correcting the immigration act of 1924. This is a very simple bill. It is simply to put in a small amendment. I will read the bill.
That clause (1) of subdivision (c) of section 13 of the immigration act of 1924 is amended to read as follows: " (1) is admissible as a nonquota immigrant under the provisions of subdivision (a), (b), (d), or (e) of section 4 or.
Senator KEYES. The only thing is the addition of subdivision (a) to section 13.
Mr. DYER. Yes; it was unintentionally, I think, left out of the immigration act of 1924, because prior to that time American-born Chinese were permitted to bring in their wives and children. The American-born Chinese are the only Chinese for whom I appear this morning, and for whom this legislation is asked.
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Senator KEYES. In other words, American citizens.
Mr. DYER. American citizens born in this country, subject to all the responsibilities and obligations of American citizens. Many of them, some from my own city, served throughout the World War, and were wounded, gassed, or otherwise disabled.
Since this law went into effect it has been decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, the decision being rendered by Mr. Justice McReynolds, in the case of Chang Chan, et al., versus John D. Nagle (268 U. S. 346), that alien wives of American citizens are not admissible to the United States under the 1924 immigration act.
Under previous laws and treaties they were admissible, and to show that it was unintentionally left out, I call your attention to the fact that Chinese merchants in the United States, though born in China and aliens, are permitted to bring their wives to the United States, but American-born Chinese can not do so.
I do not know if your committee referred this to the Department of Labor or not, but it was referred in the House. Mr. Robe Carl White, acting secretary, Department of Labor, made a report to the House committee, in which he says:
It seems to me a practically indefensible situation has arisen under the immigration act of 1924 with respect to the admissibility of women who are ineligible to citizenship. Under that act such a woman is not eligible to enter the United States although she may be the wife of a United States citizen, but under a long practice, which practice has been confirmed by a recent court decision, a woman ineligible to citizenship who happens to be the wife of a merchant or an international trader, who eligible to enter the United States for practically an indefinite period under section 3 (6) of the act referred to, enjoys the status of her husband and may enter and reside here.
In stating the department's attitude with respect to this situation, perhaps I can do no better than to quote the following from the last annual report of the Secretary:
"It has been said by some of those who assisted in writing that portion of the law that section 13 (c) of the act of 1924 has proved to be broader in its application than was intended. An alien, whether ineligible to citizenship or otherwise, who comes to the United States as a nonimmigrant under section 3 (6) of the act as a 'treaty merchant,' is permitted to be accompanied by wife and dependent, unmarried, minor children by reason of construction given to that section to the effect that the status of the wife and such minor children follows that of the husband and father. The Chinese exclusion act specifically permits the entrance of Chinese merchants, and the courts have held that such provision includes the wife and dependent, unmarried, minor children. Should an oriental alien, however, chance to be the wife of an American citizen, regardless of the occupational status of the husband, the wife can not be admitted, thus giving to a Chinese and other aliens the right to the association of his wife which is denied to the citizen. I am sure it was never intended by the Congress that an alien should be entitled to more rights under the immigration laws than an American ctitzen."
Senator KEYES. That is a letter, I understand, from Secretary
Mr. DYER. Yes.
Senator KEYES. Wouldn't it be well to put that in the record?
Mr. DYER. I will be glad to.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,
Washington, January 13, 1928.
Hon. ALBERT JOHNSON,
Chairman Committee on Immigration and Naturalization,
House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.
MY DEAR MR. Johnson: I have your letter of the 11th instant, in which you
request a report from this department on H. R. 6974, introduced by Mr. Dyer
of Missouri.
It seems to me a practically indefensible situation has arisen under the immigration act of 1924 with respect to the admissibility of women who are ineligible to citizenship. Under that act such a woman is not eligible to enter the United States although she may be the wife of a United States citizen, but under a long practice, which practice has been confirmed by a recent court decision, a woman ineligible to citizenship who happens to be the wife of a merchant or an international trader, who is eligible to enter the United States for practically an indefinite period under section 3 (6) of the act referred to, enjoys the status of her husband and may enter and reside here.
"It has been said by some of those who assisted in writing that portion of the law that section 13 (c) of the act of 1924 has proved to be broader in its application than was intended. An alien, whether ineligible to citizenship or otherwise, who comes to the United States as a nonimmigrant under section 3 (6) of the act as a 'treaty merchant, is permitted to be accompanied by wife and dependent, unmarried, minor children by reason of construction given to that section to the effect that the status of the wife and such minor children follows that of the husband and father. The Chinese exclusion act specifically permits the entrance of Chinese merchants, and the courts have held that such provision includes the wife and dependent, unmarried, minor children. Should an oriental alien, however, chance to be the wife of an American citizen, regardless of the occupational status of the husband, the wife can not be admitted, thus giving to a Chinese and other aliens the right to the association of his wife which is denied to the citizen. I am sure it was never intended by the Congress that an alien should be entitled to more rights under the immigration laws than an American citizen." Sincerely yours,
ROBE CARL WHITE, Acting Secretary. Mr. DYER. Gentlemen, we have here three American citizens, Chinese, who represent an association of American-born Chinese. Mr. Walter Lum is the head of it, and we have Mr. Fung and Mr. Hong. Which one of you gentlemen would wish to be heard first? I will present Mr. Hong, Mr. Chairman, who is from Los Angeles, Calif. Mr. Hong was born in this country, is a lawyer by occupation, and for many years was connected with the Immigration Service at Los Angeles, Calif.
Senator KEYES. If you will, give the reporter your name and address.
STATEMENT OF Y. C. HONG, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIF.
Mr. Hong. My name is Y. C. Hong. My residence is Los Angeles, Calif.
Senator KEYES. You represent whom? Mr. Hong. I represent the Native Sons of the Golden StateChinese-American Citizens' Alliance. I am president of the Los Angeles chapter. I represent them as American citizens.
Senator KEYES. Very well, we will be glad to hear you.
Mr. HONG. Mr. Chairman, and members of this committee, I am here to represent the Chinese Native Sons. They are American citizens of the Chinese race, born in this country.
We are here to ask you to consider a certain hardship imposed upon us by a certain omission of the immigration act of 1924, namely, that there was an omission of section 4 (a) as one of the exceptions in section 13 (c) of the immigration act of 1924, whereby an American citizen is unable to have his wife come to this country and reside with him. This condition is really a hardship on American citizens of our race. That is why we are here to-day to ask you to help us bring about the relief.
We sent a committee here about three years ago for the same purpose, but this matter was not taken very seriously I suppose and no action was taken. So we are here again to-day.
Mr. Fung, of San Francisco, will later tell you of typical cases of hardship. What I want to do now is to give you an outline of what the situation is under the act of 1924. We all know that there is a preponderance of males over females in this country, as far as Chinese native born are concerned, and if we want to marry, we naturally prefer to marry women of our own race, and this bill before
will help us in many ways to relieve the hardship.
Before the passage of the act of 1924, alien Chinese wives of American citizens were admissible. That was decided in the Tsoi Sim case some twenty-odd years ago. It was decided in that case that an American citizen has the right to bring in his wife to reside with him in this country. It is a fundamental principle that the domicile of the husband is the domicile of the wife. The provision of this bill is nothing new, nothing radical, but is really something in harmony with our present immigration policy, namely, to humanize the law, to bring about a union of family ties and family members. That has been recommended by the Secretary of Labor many times. In fact he advocates the extension of the scope of section 4 (a) so as to not only allow American husbands to bring in their wives, as is in accordance with our immigration policy, but also to allow the wives to bring in husbands. That has been part of the movement to humanize the law.
This right of a man to have his wife with him in this country is accorded to aliens, not only Chinese aliens but Japanese aliens as well. If you look in the law of 1924, you will find that a Japanese minister, or Japanese professor, or Hindu minister, or Hindu professor, or Korean of the same class, or Chinese merchant, or Chinese professor, all have that right to bring in their wives. It is a fundamental right recognized, not only in civilized society, but even among the savages. That is recognized as a fundamental right. But this right is denied to us who are American citizens. I really do not believe it is the intent of Congress to bring about that hardship.
If we American citizens of the Chinese race desire to get married, for instance, we have only three courses open to us. The first one is to marry a woman outside of our own race in States where interracial marriage is not prohibited. There are 11 or 13 States in the Union prohibiting such marriages. We either have to do that, that is, to marry a woman outside of our own race in States where that is not prohibited by law, or to go abroad, we will say to Europe, Mexico, or South America and marry women outside of our own race, and bring them in as our wives either as nonquota immigrants under section 4 (a) or as preferential quota immigrants. The third course is to go to China and marry a woman of our own race, and after the marriage leave them, come back to this country, and be satisfied if we have the opportunity to go see them now and then, probably once every 10 years.
The first two propositions are really inadvisable. In fact, it is against public policies in many of our States.
The third course is to go to China and marry a woman of our own race; and as far as marrying them is concerned it is all right, but to leave them there is something in human, cruel, and harsh. not dealing with inanimate objects but creatures of flesh and blood. We all have common ambitions and common feelings. We ought to have our wives with us. The last course, to marry a woman of our own race and leave her there in China, is something that should not be done. If we can not marry, we will have to live a life of celibacy. That is not natural. To expect a great number of us to do that is too harsh for any words to express.
To be frank with you gentlemen, our bill here will apply to a nativeborn Japanese citizen as well, but its field of operation is so small that it is almost negligible. A majority of the native born citizens of the Japanese race are children. Those of the marriageable age constitute something less than 700. They are equally divided as to sexes. I think there is something like a little over 15,000 native-born Japanese boys and a little over 14,000 Japanese native-born girls. A Japanese native-born boy will naturally want to marry a Japanese native-bom girl.
Senator KEYES. These figures that you are giving us are for the United States and not for California?
Mr. Hong. For continental United States from the 1920 census.
Mr. DYER. If the Senator would permit me to suggest, Mr. Hong is making reference to the fact there are sufficient Japanese girls eligible and of a marriageable age for Japanese boys in the United States, born here, to offset any argument that it might be opening the gates for Japanese. You will remember that up until lately, until this last immigration act, Japanese women were admitted to the United States under a treaty arrangement between our country and Japan. They were known as picture brides. Many of them came in and the children of those women and men that have married have grown up, so that there is really no argument that it is going to bring in Japanese women to any extent, because they are already here, native-born women as well as native-born men of marriageable age. The picture-bride arrangement never did apply to the Chinese.
Mr. Hong. Mr. Dyer has amplified what I had in mind as to the Japanese situation. It does not open the gate as far as Japanese immigration is concerned.
Mr. DYER. Will you tell the committee about how many Americanborn Chinese men there are in the United States?
Mr. Hong. The 1920 census showed about 18,000 native-born Chinese in the United States, approximately 5,000 of them being females.
Mr. DYER. Unmarried?
Mr. Hong. Unmarried. Some are children and some are of marriageable_age. The ratio is a little over two males to each female.
Mr. DYER. I have a statement here, if the chairman will permit Mr. Hong, which was in our hearings of last year. It says the number of Chinese in the United States, according to the 1920 census, is 61,639, of whom 53,891 are males and 7,748 are females. Of the total Chinese population of 61,639, 43,107 are foreign born and 18,532 native born. Of the 18,532 native-born Chinese 13,318 are males and 5,214 are females. Of the total female Chinese population of 7,748, the 1920 census shows 3,047 married and 4,302 single. Of the


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Protests over Land in Vietnam
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Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Vol. 9 No. 3, Summer 2014; (pp. 19-54) DOI: 10.1525/vs.2014.9.3.19
From 2008 through 2011, the Vietnamese government received nearly 1.6 million complaints from citizens, mostly about land confiscations and related issues. Frequently people angry over land issues have resorted to public demonstrations. This article compares protests in Vietnam to rightful resistance theory. A predominant pattern for how Vietnamese villagers protest corresponds to that theory. Some Vietnamese demonstrations, however, do not fit that pattern; they are outliers. In terms of why people publicly demonstrate, Vietnamese protests in both the predominant pattern and the outliers are similar to each other but exceed rightful resistance theory by challenge existing laws and asserting rights not officially recognized.
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Clean, Press, and Walk: Ladies is actually a popular move among women's fitness enthusiast. For this drill will certainly only require the availability with regards to a single bell and an appartment open space to move. Mark off a distance in the walking space of about 25 meters. Clean the bell for your chest and press it above your mind. Make sure your elbow is locked in place and that your shoulder is firmly sucked into the socket. Now walk the 25 yard distance light and portable kettlebell above your travel. Once you reach one other side simply lower the kettlebell and clean and press it with one other arm. Walk back along with opposite arm. This is a great drill for building core stability, strength, and quickening your weight-loss progress! Train hard and have ladies.
Caffeine in big amounts can outcome in low weight babies. You'll find it reduces the quality of vital water in the. Although not yet proven, some studies report that it may harm the fetus. While not as dangerous as alcohol it should still be prevented.


Drive emulators can be useful for testing purposes as well as for saving the hassle of changing discs frequently. Furthermore, they come in handy when dealing with disc image files; ISOs, IMGs, etc. While most emulators offer the ability to mount images to virtual drives, they do not allow modification to the image, or creation of your own disc image. There are some advanced tools that come with this functionality, but most of them are not free. TotalMounter is an advanced and powerful free optical disc emulator for Windows coming with a rich feature-set and supporting CD/DVD-ROM/RW/RAM functions.
Where it differs from other software is it's ability to create a virtualized CD/DVD-RW drive and allow the user to burn their own data into this image using a disc burning software. The virtual drive is mounted as a regular feature (standard) optical drive and burning software will recognize it as one. The user can also specify the size of the image file. This tool works with most image file formats, including iso, bin, cdi, mdf, ccd, nrg etc.
Furthermore, TotalMounter is also a full-featured iSCSI initiator as well as being a client of INetDisk for mounting to an INedDisk server. Refer to the product page for the full overview of features being offered. The settings dialog allows the user to select whether to start TotalMounter on Windows startup and the path to be used as temporary storage.
The software's memory footprint ranges between 12-13MB, and generally will not boggle your system down in any way. One of the downsides is that its disc emulation drivers are not signed for Windows 7, and hence you will have to allow an unsigned install, leaving the possibility that the software may become buggy at points, although our testing with Windows 7 went seamless.


Ever since Android has been introduced in the market, it has become widely popular. Android Tablets are being sold like hot cakes. They are not only easy to use but the wide range of apps has allowed users to do any type of work on-the-go. It is convenient to check emails, conduct web conferencing, update calendars and fix up meetings. Android apps are being continuously upgraded and new ones are launched to beat Apple's iOS. With less cost than Apple's product, Android provides same functionality and smoothness.
With Temple Run 1.0 already being on top 10 for 2012, the 2.0 version has already seen over 170 million downloads. It is full of adventure in mines and forest and much more fun than the first version. Download it and get addicted!!
This game has topped the charts in 2013 for colourful 3D graphics and nice background score. Even playing for hours you can't still get enough of it. With various features like jetpack, daily missions, running on railway tracks and surfing on the jetpack, this game is loaded with adventure. You can buy various profiles and run on the trains to keep away from Police inspector and his dog.
With merging Angry Birds characters with Star Wars weapons, this latest version is gaining a lot of popularity among all age groups. As always Angry Bird is loaded with lovely music track and great animation. This game still might be on top of the charts by end of 2013.
After installing this game, you sure are going to be noticed even in a big crowd. With tilting the tablet here and there to save the ball between various platforms, Drop is an awesomely good game.
This is a shoot and kills zombie game with lovely graphics. You will keep shooting one after other zombies which have appeared post-apocalyptic. You can pay some money to buy better weapons and upgrade the abilities.
Another fun game by Rovio, with over 80 levels. Its same like the angry bird but with better animation and all the more challenging. Play with family and score maximum stars.
The new cowboy game loaded with mysteries and challenges to be uncovered. You will slowly unlock various horses, weapons and other things and carry on the adventure. No need to spend any money and have fun every time!


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A fire pit can be a perfect addition to your home's outside decor. It makes your space brighter, warmer, and more inviting for most of the year.
Although fire pits and outdoor fireplaces are getting extremely popular, a surprising number of homeowners limit themselves to kits and prefinished products – whatever is available at their nearest hardware store.
A custom-designed outdoor fire pit does more than simply add ambiance at night. It can become the center of your entire outdoor space.
Sound design principles can produce beautiful results in virtually any space and any budget. Shoreline Pools would be happy to help you explore your full range of firepit options and significantly enhance your property.
Fire pits are popularly placed close to hot tubs or swimming pools. This is a logical and convenient choice, as a roaring fire makes the perfect follow-up to a bracing dip. Other owners like to situate fire features as close as possible to their home so that they are visible from inside as well as outside.
A traditional stone fireplace could integrate well into a porch or deck if you are favoring rustic design cues. If your outdoor focus is on your foliage, you could site your fire feature as a transition between hardscape and garden.
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With a custom fire feature such as an outdoor fireplace or pit, you're not constrained to specific shapes. You could build a circular bowl firepit, a traditional fireplace, or a hybrid feature designed for indoor/outdoor use.
Circular fire pits are great for establishing a casual, outdoorsy feeling. They make terrific centerpieces for social interaction. A double-sided design is perfect for larger areas, offering ample space to both sides.
Well-designed fire features can even be functional as well as beautiful; a fireplace with a proper oven opening can become a center for cooking everything from barbeque to pizza.
A fire is a perfect way to make your home more welcoming when you invite guests over. They can be equally entertaining when you're relaxing on your own, though! Remember that a nicely-placed outdoor fire feature can be enjoyed both inside and outside your home.
Even when you are focusing primarily on indoor entertainment, a well-placed fire pit can significantly enhance your environmental ambiance and make your home cozier.
For colder months, consider your fire's ability to warm up outdoor spaces. Citing the fire feature properly (in the angle of a wall, for instance) can make it reflect an impressive amount of heat.
The size of your chosen design will dictate how many people can enjoy it at the same time. Pick out a feature based on the overall number of guests you expect to entertain.
Larger pits suit larger crowds, and they can become even more welcoming thanks to added features like an extended hearth. Large fire pits lend an almost theatrical air to big outdoor parties.
For smaller groups, though, a more modest fireplace delivers a cozy, intimate feeling. A very nice outdoor fire feature can be fit into a footprint as small as three feet by two feet. A smaller fire is ideal for family gatherings.
The size of the crowd you plan to invite isn't the only factor affecting your choice of fire feature design. You also need to think about the overall size of your outdoor space.
Smaller backyards place a limit on the size of fire pits that will comfortably fit in them. Do not plan out a huge fire feature unless you have the space to enjoy it comfortably and safely!


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Remembering Meridith Lawrence
Tags: Meridith Lawrence, Judith Stein, Susan Stinson, fat lesbians, Boston Area Fat Liberation, Oakland, OutWrite, deaths
I just learned, through a beautiful, heartbreaking post by her wife Judith Stein, that Meridith Lawrence has died.
I met Meridith in the early eighties when she was co-running a Fat Lesbian Group at the Cambridge Women's Center. She had an infectious laugh and lots of knowledge of communities I wanted to be part of. Meridith really was the person who opened to doors for me to explore what it might mean to be a fat dyke who was determined to live a full, complex, self-loving life with plenty of company from others who were doing the same.
At first Meridith's lover Judith was mostly a legend — a fat leader and writer who wasn't going to groups any more — but it wasn't too long before I met Judith, too, at a raucous group meal after she gave a reading at New Words, the women's bookstore in Inman Square. Judith and Meridith were so glamorous and sophisticated to me. The love between them was palpable, always. Meridith and I organized a one-time fat swim together at the public pool in JP, across the street from my apartment.
I used to run into Meridith on the bus sometimes, too — she talked to me about how to negotiate space in those not-big-enough-seats — I believe she said her response to being shunned by strangers on buses was, "Ummhmm, yes, more room for me."
Meridith and Judith threw fantastic parties full of people I wanted to talk to, in their home filled with fat art. They were generous with me in more ways than I can say. They hosted me and other writers from Western Mass when we came east to the big city to go the OutWrite Conference, that wonderful gathering of queer writers that happened year after year in the nineties. They went, too, of course. They paid the fee for me to go to a fat conference.
Meridith had bold opinions and an organizer's soul. She had warmth. She was brave, and she talked about things that had been taboo. Once I interviewed Judith and Meridith about the history of fat activism at the Michigan Womyn's Music. I was on radio shows with them in the eighties, too. (Charlotte Cooper digitized those — I'll try to link to them in the comments.) Oh, and the anniversary boat rides and West Side Story parties! Such community-builders, Meridith and Judith.
I haven't seen Judith and Meridith in recent years, but I know that there are those who have been experiencing all of that love, friendship and warmth on the West Coast. I am mourning for Judith, for all who loved Meridith, and for the loss of such a powerful presence in the world. Here's picture of Meridith and me on the way to the OutWrite Conference in Copley Square in Boston in June 1995. Sally Bellerose was there, too, but I am pretty sure that Judith took the picture.
Donations in Meridith Lawrence's memory may be made to the following:
Women's International league for peace and freedom.
Black lives matter.
Power to live
Sogorea Te' Land Trust
Nov 17, 2020 10:36 AM EST
Have you posted your interview with Meredith & Judith about fat activism at Michfest anywhere? I would love to hear more about what "fat outreach" looked like for them! <3
- Noah Albee
Nov 17, 2020 12:43 PM EST
I haven't, Noah. Maybe someday, with Judith's permission. I did recently write a remembrance you might be interested in. It's about Joan Drury, former publisher of Spinsters Ink, who had a lot of Minnesota/mid-continent pride. She published my first two novels. You can find it on Lambda Literary from last week.
- Susan Stinson


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Top 20 footballers who waste a lot of money
This may come as a stun to those of us in the United States, however Football isn't the most mainstream sport on the planet. As a matter of fact, that is false, it is, simply not our form of it. The "genuine" football,
This may come as a stun to those of us in the United States, yet Football isn't the most famous game on the planet. In reality, that is false, it is, simply not our form of it. The "genuine" football, what we call Soccer, is by a long shot the most well known game on the planet. Each nation on Earth plays it somewhat and they all have public groups playing in territorial competitions, also the World Cup.
It's a multi-billion, potentially multi-trillion dollar sport where putting in a couple million on another arena is literally nothing. That goes for its players too and it's nothing unexpected to see soccer players make upwards of $30, $40, or even $70 million dollars per year from their viewpoint clubs alone. Cristiano Ronaldo, ostensibly the best part on the planet, rounds up $80 million per year.
Individuals with a great deal of cash will in general like going through that cash, generally on themselves, now and again their family and dearest companions, yet generally themselves. We've all perused accounts of Mike Tyson purchasing tigers, Curt Schilling purchasing a videogame organization prior to going belly up, and Eli Manning burning through @2.5 million on a kids' emergency clinic. What a weirdo. However, that is all an insignificant detail contrasted with what a few footballers will blow their gigantic fortunes on.
You will have a hard time believing a portion of the insane thing these soccer players have spent their cash on. So appreciate finding out about the Top 20 Soccer Players Who Wasted Huge Amounts of Money while you're worrying over your bills or contemplating whether you can stand to eat around evening time.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the Swedish soccer star who plays for the Swedish National group just as PSG, as of late purchased a monstrous 4 story church in Stockholm. At a cost of 4.7 million krona (570,000 USD), Ibrahimovic at that point spent an undisclosed measure of cash on manufacturers to transform the structure into an apartment building. Ibrahimovic is expecting to flip the structure and make a pleasant benefit. Clearly he additionally needs his own HGTV show here in America.
Keith Gillespie
Gillespie is one of the names on this rundown that isn't clever to such an extent as it is pitiful. He built up a devastating liquor and betting habit while playing for Newcastle United and Manchester United, now and again putting down wagers on his own groups. In 2013 he confessed to wagering more than $150,000 per day on race ponies, typically losing everything.
He says he began at a youthful age, filling in as an understudy for a British football club making 46 pounds every week, normally spending everything at the bookies.
In the long run he blew through the greater part of his cash, 7 million pounds (more than $10 million). He says it wasn't totally blown on betting, yet in addition property speculation and even a "film conspire a great deal of footballers did," whatever that implies.
Lee Hendrie
Lee Hendrie was always truly unable to remain in one spot for a really long time. He headed out to a few clubs over a moderately little timeframe, however consistently raked in some serious cash where he went. He likewise went through a ton of cash wherever he went also. Like some other footballer, he had an inclination for extravagance sports vehicles and wasn't anxious about getting one only for the excitement of going through cash.
Be that as it may, Hendrie was likewise another instance of a competitor thinking he'd make a decent realtor. He bought a ton of property all through England and when the lodging economy imploded, he was left with useless land. He declared financial insolvency, losing more than $15 million dollars.
Carl Cort
Don't hesitate to quit perusing in the event that you've heard this one preceding: a rich soccer star secures a great deal of cash, doesn't have the foggiest idea how to manage it, purchases a ton of poop, and puts resources into things he doesn't see yet does so at any rate become some bookkeeper advises him to. All things considered, that is basically what is the issue here.
Carl Cort is one of those competitors. Evidently he too put a lot of cash in the UK entertainment world due to the tax cuts and other rewarding escape clauses. Bu the UK entertainment world didn't take off like it was normal and Cort winding up losing a great many dollars.
Cort failed and we don't have a clue how much cash he lost precisely. What we can be sure of is that at the stature of his vocation, he procured bounty a year with Newcastle and now at 34 years of age he plays for the second division Tampa Bay Rowdies.
Take Sulley Muntari for instance. Playing for AC Milan, he made more than $3.3 million every year. Given footballer's adoration for anything with four wheels, it should not shock anyone that they're willing to drop six figures on a vehicle, which is the thing that Muntari did, spending more than $900,000 on his new ride.
The ludicrous thing is the thing that sort of vehicle he purchased. It's a Mercedes Brabus G63 AMG 6×6, indeed, with six wheels. Given how little European streets are, his arrangement is by all accounts to simply run over any vehicle that holds him up.
Celestine Babayaro
Heavenly Babayaro, as his companions (don't) call him, looked into going chapter 11 of every 2011, regardless of once making $45k seven days playing for Newcastle United and Chelsea. He's rejected that he's poor soon after the recording, so possibly he documented a deceitful insolvency documenting or he's lying.
Considering a portion of the things he's gotten, it wouldn't be difficult to perceive how he could be penniless. At the point when he got to England from his country of Nigeria, he purchased a permanent place to stay for his family close to his own home. He's likewise burned through millions on houses and extravagance vehicles, since he's a soccer player and that is somewhat what they do.
Prior to petitioning for financial protection, banks put promotions in paper attempting to find him and get him to pay. He couldn't obviously, and recorded not long after.
Brad Friedel
Brad Friedel was American's most prominent player for some time, a long time before soccer began getting on in the country. Being an Americam, he needed to show the world how incredible he, and likewise, his nation is. He didn't accepting any manors or extravagance vehicles, no sir! All things considered, he set up Brad Friedel's Premier Soccer Academy, a soccer school for youthful players.
Tragically, it only sort of fizzled. Beginning lowering enough, Friedel set up a couple of instructional courses all through Ohio, his home state. Ultimately, the little structure and small bunch of camps transformed into a huge 11,000-square foot building total with first rate mentors and all year preparing accessible to any individual who needed to select their children.
What cost Friedel was that it was thoroughly free. Anybody could enter the camp for nothing. Obviously, it didn't take long for the foundation to begin losing cash. He set it up in 2003 for $10 million, and when it was shut down in 2011 he lost another $8 million. The institute was abandoned and Friedel had to default on some loans himself.
Friedel just barely resigned for the current year, at the mature age of 43. You need to calculate his monetary circumstance kept him away from resigning prior.
Eric Djemba
Eric Djemba-Djemba was 22 years of age when he took the field for Manchester United, making an announced $27,000 per week. Vehicles and houses happened, on account obviously they did. He generally stood out as truly newsworthy for his terrible conduct and free handle on his cash, however it wasn't until 2014 when his previous specialist, Christophe Mongay, talked about him.
""Eric is on an alternate planet. He basically has no thought of cash. At a certain point, he had 30 distinctive financial balances."
Mongay claims that Djemba-Djemba at one point possessed 10 4×4 vehicles. Clearly, Eric Djemba-Djemba would at last declare financial insolvency, losing a large number of dollars reimbursing advances and charge cards.
They say soccer players are gold diggers, that their WAGs are gold diggers and that none of them care about anything besides cash. A considerable amount of them go out and purchase gold plated vehicles (more on that later) or gold teeth or brilliant tissue. Yet, what number of them really go out and purchase a whole gold mine?
Didier Drogba bought 5% stake in a gold mine in the Ivory Coast, his nation of origin, not long after a huge monetary breakdown in the country. The nation has begun to return from it, thanks in enormous part to its cocoa and gold mines. The one Drogba bought has created 800,000 ounces of gold since 1991, that is worth more than $1 billion in the present cash.
It seems like an incredible arrangement, yet on the off chance that you figure it out, as indicated by these numbers, before any charges are taken, he's just making a normal of $1,666.65 per year from the mine. That likewise expects the mine continues to get a similar measure of gold every year and that none of the gold is taken or anything. Drogba burned through $74 million on that 5% stake, and at that rate it would take… quite a while to begin making a benefit. Perhaps it'll be something the grandchildren can utilize…
El Hadji Diouf
El Hadji Diouf, the Senegalese star who played for Liverpool and Blackburn, enjoys his vehicles. He loves his vehicles more than practically whatever other footballer, which is quite a statement. It very well may be exhausting to discuss footballers and their vehicles, however footballers are obviously truly exhausting individuals.
But El Hadji Diouf, or so he presumably thinks, with his gold plated Cadillac Escalade and silver plated Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. The actual Escalade is valued at $81k alone, who can say for sure how much the gold plating cost, potentially not even El Hadji Diouf himself prior to giving it off to some shop and saying "no doubt, whatever, simply complete it." The SLR McLaren was considerably more costly, more than $640k alone, again before the silver plating.
Those are extraordinary vehicles that currently look crazy. Immense waste.
A few people truly like history and will put down a ton of cash purchasing crazy, old antiques. I don't know whether that is the situation with Cisee, but rather he absolutely put down a great deal of cash for one old verifiable structure.
In 2005, the previous Liverpool striker bought a $3 million manor in England that gave him the option to consider himself a Lord, since that is the means by which houses work in England clearly. In particular, his authority title is "Master of the Manor of Frodsham," which is quite an approach to present yourself at parties in any event.
The chateau has been followed back to the year 1086 to the "Domesday Book," which is fundamentally an old enumeration led by William the Conqueror. For all that authentic worth, the $3 million sticker price is right around a deal. Nearly.
Obafemi Martins
Quick games vehicles, extravagance feasting, penthouse suites, and ladies all over the place, effectively something an extraordinary footballer like Obafemi Martins can bear, particularly on X seven days, isn't that so? No, actually. Martin made about $115,000 per week at Newcastle United and its announced that he blew through the entirety of that in only a few of days, consistently. He would got out and party hard, burning through every last bit of it very quickly.
Among his buys is a $130,000 Porsche Cayenne, a "multi-million dollar" home in England, leasing a costly condo in Newcastle, and going to extravagant (and costly) eateries consistently.
Be that as it may, his accounts couldn't keep up and subsequent to taking assistance from a monetary organization, he before long lost everything.
Chad Johnson, when Ochocinco, momentarily played for Sporting Kansas City during the 2011 NFL Lockout. He played as a back-up in a save game, so he thoroughly considers a soccer player.
Chad Johnson has burned through the vast majority of his cash on his extravagance Florida house, which he bought in 2005 for $1.4 million. From that point forward, he's fitted it with two huge aquariums. Whenever is set at the headboard of his bed, the other coating the mass of his enormous TV room.
However, he can't really be viewed as a soccer player until he drops a couple Gs on a vehicle. So in 2012, long after his retirement from the NFL (and owing debtors in light of that enormous Florida chateau), he bought a Lamborghini Aventador for a cool $376,000.
As a last piece de la opposition, Ochocinco, presently back to calling himself Johnson, tweeted out a photograph of him spilling a server $300. Stay tasteful, Chad, stay tasteful.
Stephen Ireland
Stephen Ireland, the midfielder earlier of Manchester United and Aston Villa, broadly once said that abundance is "destroying" Manchester City. Ireland never purchased a feeling of incongruity, yet he has spent a great deal of his assessed $6 million total assets on some lovely insane stuff. Furthermore, vehicles.
First off, he bought himself a $8 million chateau in England and deceived it out with all the necessities. Like, for instance, a room that is altogether painted gold, a $150,000 fish tank total with exotic fish, a spa, gigantic indoor pool, and a film and pool table room. There's even a room that is pink from the base to the top for his little girl.
The English Tom Brady, Wayne Rooney is popular for his disposition, perfect WAGs, and his powerlessness to win when it makes a difference most. Perhaps he's more similar to Peyton Manning in such manner. Yet, the one who once made more than $12 million a year does one thing truly well and that is going through cash.
Rooney has a propensity for racehorses, having purchased his third in 2014. He doesn't have a very remarkable ability for picking great ones nonetheless, as one of the ponies he purchased just ever dominated two races and that was before he gotten it. He additionally recruited a pony whisperer, an "equine advisor" to treat another pony for its resentment the board.
Subsequent to marking an enormous agreement in 2010 with Manchester United, he and his significant other traveled to Dubai and invested energy at a $3,000 every night lodging, appreciating $80 a glass containers of wine, his better half making the most of her new $500 two-piece, and the two getting comfortable one evening for a $3,655 lunch. This came as opposed to celebrating at his $7 million manor by setting up a $135,000 party, which he needed to drop in view of individuals fighting external his home. Ok, it's so difficult being rich.
John Terry
The widely adored lay down with-a-partners spouse laugher-at-Americans-days-after-911 John Terry likes to go through his cash, generally in light of the fact that it keeps him conscious around evening time by murmuring to him pretty much all the awful things he's finished.
A year ago, he purchased two new vehicles, including a Rolls-Royce assessed at more than $570,000 all out. That didn't prevent him from purchasing a Ferrari 275 this year worth more than $2 million, which should be change down the rear of the love seat for Terry.
Requiring some place to house these vehicles, he bought a $7 million dollar manor from ace golf player Colin Montgomerie. Being the cautious man he is, not having any desire to get his hair all over, old Johnny gets himself normal $220k hair styles.
For quite a while, David Beckham was the lone soccer player anybody in the United States could name, thanks in enormous part to that horrendous film, Bend it Like Beckham. At the point when he went to the US, he was held up as the friend in need for American soccer, getting paid a record $250 million by the LA Galaxy.
He was rich before that however, as confirmed by his 1999 wedding blessing to himself and his better half. He purchased two brilliant seats and even employed a previous regal assistance staff to deal with he and his new spouse. Indeed, the actual wedding cost an expected $800,000, including a jewel crown for his significant other. The couple at that point sold photographs of the wedding to OK! Magazine for $2 million dollars, which they at that point spend on a huge $11 million manor.
Nonetheless, that house was all in all too little they chose, so a couple of years after the fact they sold it and bought a $80 million chateau all things considered, total with staffed rub rooms, a cinema, and an underground vehicle carport.
Mario Balotelli has spent a ton of cash on an assortment no one can really see. He burned through $250,000 on a Bentley with a disguise design, just as a soil bicycle with a similar secrecy innovation. Balotelli in the long run got so burnt out on not having the option to discover his vehicle in a parking garage, he offered it to a partner for nothing.
In 2011, he was all the while having issues discovering his vehicle in the parking area, so he began leaving any place he felt like. That year alone, he piled up more than $15k worth of leaving tickets and had his vehicle seized multiple times. This was a similar vehicle wherein he was pulled over in when he had more than $35,000 in real money in the front seat "since I can," he said.
It's additionally asserted that last year, he faked a physical issue in a game so he could hustle out and purchase an iPhone 6, in light of the fact that normally a star like him would experience difficulty getting his hands on one in any case.
Neymar is one of the most sweltering youthful parts on the planet and many contend on the off chance that he didn't get harmed in the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Brazil would have won. Regardless of whether that is valid, Neymar has acquired himself a chunk of change as of now and he's just 23 years of age. He's right now making $15 million per year for Barcelona and $16 million in support bargains.
This has driven the youngster to spending like there's no tomorrow. He has three vehicles to his name, including a Porsche Panamera Turbo worth around $400,000 to $550,000. There's additionally his $2 million dollar manor and $750,000 flat in Brazil, in addition to his investment property in Barcelona.
However, shockingly, Neymar likewise bought a $8 million yacht that costs $120,000 each year to keep up. He likewise burned through $1 million dollars on a manor for his previous accomplice and goes through $15,000 per month on kid uphold for his young child. There are additionally the easily overlooked details that we don't have the foggiest idea how much he's spent on, similar to his enormous collectible toy vehicle assortment or his precious stone studs.
There's theory that he's possibly going to wind up like Pele, broke before the finish of his profession in view of wild spending. Going on like this, it's difficult to contend something else, even with his huge check.
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Houston ( ) è una città (city) degli Stati Uniti d'America e capoluogo della contea di Harris nello Stato del Texas. Una piccola parte della città si estende nelle contee di Fort Bend e Montgomery. La popolazione era di 2 304 580 abitanti secondo i dati del 2020, il che la rende la città più popolosa dello stato e la quarta città più popolosa della nazione. È la principale città dell'area metropolitana nota come Greater Houston.

Houston venne fondata il 28 agosto 1836, vicino alle sponde del Buffalo Bayou (ora noto come Allen's Landing) e incorporata come città il 5 giugno 1837. La città prende il nome dall'ex generale e politico statunitense Sam Houston. Houston è famosa nel mondo per la sua industria energetica (in particolare petrolifera), e aeronautica, nonché per il suo porto, uno dei più affollati degli Stati Uniti. Molti residenti si sono trasferiti qui da altri stati americani, o da altri paesi del mondo, per motivi di affari.

Houston è sede di numerose università. La più importante è l'Università di Houston, la prima università del Texas per la ricerca; importante è anche l'Università Rice, una università privata che vanta uno dei più alti finanziamenti al mondo. Ci sono inoltre l'Università di Saint Thomas, la Houston Baptist University, l'Università di Houston-Clear Lake, l'Università di Houston-Downtown, e la Texas Southern University.

Houston è soprannominata Space City: infatti qui ha sede la NASA e proprio "Houston" fu la prima parola pronunciata dall'astronauta Neil Armstrong appena il LEM fu posato sulla superficie lunare. Un altro soprannome è Bayou City, per la fitta rete di piccoli corsi d'acqua (i bayou) che l'attraversano. Da Houston verso levante si estende la regione Cajun che include il vicino Stato della Louisiana.

Nel 2005 la rivista Men's Fitness ha definito la città come simbolo dell'obesità negli Stati Uniti, poiché dalle statistiche risulta che il 23% dei residenti è clinicamente obeso. Houston ha anche il doppio dei negozi di frittelle dolci rispetto alla media degli Stati Uniti. La città texana vanta una tra le più folte comunità vietnamite negli Stati Uniti.

Geografia fisica

Houston si trova  ad est di Austin,  ad ovest dal confine con la Louisiana, e  a sud di Dallas. Secondo lo United States Census Bureau, ha un'area totale di 656,3 miglia quadrate (1 700 km²), di cui 634 miglia quadrate (1 642 km²) di terra e 22,3 miglia quadrate (58 km²) di acqua. L'ecoregione di Piney Woods si trova a nord di Houston. Nella città sono presenti soprattutto praterie temperate e foreste. Gran parte della città è stata costruita su terreni boschivi, paludi e praterie. La planarità del terreno locale, quando è combinato all'espansione urbana, ha reso le inondazioni un problema ricorrente per la città. La downtown si trova a circa 50 piedi (15 m) sopra il livello del mare.

La città ha in passato fatto uso di acque sotterranee, ma a causa del cedimento del terreno gli abitanti sono stati costretti a utilizzare solo l'acqua presente sul livello del suolo, come il Lake Houston, Lake Conroe, e il Lake Livingston. Houston possiede quattro grandi paludi che attraversano la città. Buffalo Bayou attraversa il centro e lo Houston Ship Channel; ha tre affluenti: White Oak Bayou; Brays Bayou, che attraversa lungo il Texas Medical Center; e Sims Bayou, che attraversa la parte meridionale di Houston e il centro della città. Il Houston Ship Channel scorre oltre Galveston e immette nel Golfo del Messico.
Houston è una zona paludosa, soggetta a inondazioni. Nella città sono presenti da 150 a 300 faglie attive, che hanno una lunghezza complessiva fino alle 310 miglia (500 km).

Clima
Il clima di Houston è classificato come subtropicale umido (Cfa nella Classificazione dei climi di Köppen), tipico del Profondo Sud. Anche se non si trova nella regione del Tornado Alley, come gran parte del resto del Texas. Nelle mattine estive è presente un'umidità relativa media del 90%. Le brezze marine sono presenti soprattutto nella parte sud-orientale, vicino al Golfo. Per far fronte alla forte umidità e calore, le persone utilizzano l'aria condizionata in quasi ogni veicolo e costruzione. Nel 1980 Houston è stata descritta come "il luogo con più aria condizionata sulla terra". Ufficialmente la temperatura più calda mai registrata è stata di 43 °C, raggiunta sia il 4 settembre 2000 sia il 28 agosto 2011. Houston ha livelli di ozono eccessivi ed è regolarmente classificata tra le città più inquinate da ozono negli Stati Uniti.

Storia

Nell'agosto 1836 due imprenditori immobiliari newyorkesi, Augustus Chapman Allen e John Kirby Allen, acquistarono 6.642 acri (26,88 km²) di terra lungo la Buffalo Bayou con l'intenzione di fondare una città. Houston è la denominazione che i fratelli Allen decisero di dare alla città in onore di Sam Houston. Prima della guerra civile erano molti gli schiavi che vivevano nella città. Alcuni di loro lavoravano nelle piantagioni di zucchero e cotone, mentre la maggior parte ricoprivano ruoli domestici e artigianali. Houston è stata incorporata come città il 5 giugno 1837, con James S. Holman come primo sindaco. Nello stesso anno, Houston è diventata il capoluogo della contea di Harrisburg (ora contea di Harris) e la provvisoria capitale della Repubblica del Texas. Nel 1840 è stata istituita una camera di commercio, in parte per promuovere il trasporto acqueo del porto appena creato a Buffalo Bayou.

Nel 1860 Houston è diventata un importante centro commerciale e ferroviario per l'esportazione del cotone. Durante la guerra civile americana la città è stata utilizzata come quartier generale dal militare John Bankhead Magruder, che sfruttò Houston come punto di coordinazione per la Battaglia di Galveston. Nel 1890 Houston divenne il principale centro ferroviario del Texas. Nel 1900, dopo che Galveston è stata colpita da un devastante uragano, sono stati accelerati gli sforzi per costruire a Houston un porto. L'anno successivo, la scoperta del petrolio nel giacimento di Spindletop ha spinto lo sviluppo dell'industria petrolifera texana. Nel 1902 il presidente Theodore Roosevelt ha approvato un progetto di miglioramento dello Houston Ship Channel da 1 milione di dollari. Nel 1910 la popolazione della città ha raggiunto le 78.800 unità, quasi doppiando la popolazione del decennio precedente. Gli afroamericani formavano una grande comunità, formata da 23.929 persone, ossia quasi un terzo dei residenti. Il presidente Woodrow Wilson ha inaugurato il porto di Houston nel 1914, sette anni dopo l'inizio degli scavi. Nel 1930 Houston era diventata la città più popolosa del Texas e la contea di Harris era la contea più popolosa. Nel 1940 l'Ufficio del censimento degli Stati Uniti d'America ha riferito che la popolazione di Houston era composta per il 77,5% da bianchi e per il 22,4% da neri.

Quando è scoppiata la seconda guerra mondiale le attività di spedizione attraverso il porto sono state sospese; tuttavia la guerra ha fornito anche dei benefici economici per la città: grazie alla crescente domanda di petrolio e di gomma sintetica, sono state costruite diverse raffinerie petrolchimiche e impianti di produzione. L'aeroporto Ellington Field, inizialmente costruito durante la prima guerra mondiale, è stato rivitalizzato come centro di formazione avanzata per bombardieri e navigatori. La Brown Shipbuilding Company (con sede a Houston) è stata fondata nel 1942 per la costruzione di navi per la United States Navy durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Grazie al boom dei posti di lavoro nella difesa militare, migliaia di lavoratori (sia bianchi che neri) migrarono in città, nella speranza di assicurarsi i ruoli più prestigiosi. Il presidente Roosevelt aveva istituito una politica anti-discriminatoria verso gli appaltatori della difesa, e i neri guadagnarono diverse opportunità, soprattutto nella costruzione navale. Le reazioni non furono però positive: i bianchi fecero più volte resistenza e le tensioni sociali aumentarono radicalmente, scaturendone più volte violenze fisiche. I vantaggi economici portati dall'inclusione dei neri nelle industrie della difesa militare continuarono anche negli anni del dopoguerra.

Nel 1945 la M.D. Anderson Foundation fondò il Texas Medical Center. Nel 1948 la città annetté diverse aree prive di personalità giuridica, raddoppiando le sue dimensioni originali. Nel 1950 la disponibilità di climatizzazione spinse molte aziende di trasferirsi a Houston, dove i salari erano inferiori rispetto al Nord; ciò determinò una espansione economica e un cambiamento radicale nell'economia della città, in direzione del settore energetico. L'aumento della produzione nel settore cantieristico durante la seconda guerra mondiale spinse la crescita di Houston anche in questo settore; un esempio potrebbe essere il Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (noto inizialmente come Manned Spacecraft Center), istituito nel 1961 dalla NASA. Esso fu lo stimolo per lo sviluppo del settore aerospaziale della città. Il Reliant Astrodome, soprannominato l'"ottava meraviglia del mondo", è stato aperto nel 1965 come primo stadio sportivo coperto a forma di cupola del mondo.

Nel 1997 fu eletto come sindaco Lee P. Brown, il primo afro-americano a ricoprire tale ruolo.

Nel giugno del 2001 la tempesta tropicale Allison fece precipitare fino a un metro di pioggia su Houston, causando la peggiore alluvione della storia della città. La tempesta ha causato danni per miliardi di dollari e la morte di 20 persone nell'intero stato del Texas. Durante le inondazioni del 2015 e 2016, diverse parti della città sono state coperte da svariati pollici di acqua. Nel 2017 Houston ha ospitato il Super Bowl LI, la terza edizione del Super Bowl ad essere organizzato nella città, dopo quelle del 1974 e 2004.

Società

Evoluzione demografica
Secondo il censimento del 2020, c'erano 2.304.580 abitanti.

Etnie e minoranze straniere
Secondo il censimento del 2010, la composizione etnica della città era formata dal 50,51% di bianchi, il 23,74% di afroamericani, lo 0,71% di nativi americani, il 6,02% di asiatici, lo 0,05% di oceaniani, il 15,69% di altre etnie, e il 3,26% di due o più etnie. Ispanici o latinos di qualunque etnia erano il 43,81% della popolazione.

Religioni
Secondo uno studio del 2014 del Pew Research Center il 73% degli abitanti della città sono cristiani, il 50% protestanti e il 19% cattolici (a Houston si trova la concattedrale dell'arcidiocesi di Galveston-Houston), mentre il 20% si dichiara irreligioso. Lo stesso studio dice che le altre religioni (tra cui l'ebraismo, il buddismo, l'islam e l'induismo) sono professate dal 7% circa della popolazione.

Cultura
Situata nel sud degli Stati Uniti, Houston è una città molto diversificata, con una grande e crescente comunità multiculturale. L'area metropolitana è abitata da 1,1 milioni di abitanti (corrispondenti al 21,4%) che sono nati fuori degli Stati Uniti; quasi i due terzi di essi provengono dal Messico. Inoltre, più di un residente straniero su cinque proviene dal continente asiatico. A Houston sono presenti uffici consolari in rappresentanza di 86 paesi differenti. Il più grande e longevo evento annuale nella città è il Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, la maggiore mostra di bestiame e competizione di rodeo del mondo; si tiene tra febbraio e marzo.

Un'altra grande festa è il Houston Gay Pride Parade, che si tiene annualmente dal 1979 alla fine di giugno.
Inoltre sono celebri il Houston Greek Festival, il Houston Art Car Parade, il Houston Auto Show, il Houston International Festival, e il Bayou City Art Festival, considerato uno dei primi cinque festival d'arte negli Stati Uniti.
A Houston sono presenti, fra le altre, la Our Lady of Guadalupe School con annessa parrocchia, e lo Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, due delle scuole cattoliche più antiche della città. Nella città sono presenti più di 300 scuole private.

È presente, nella Houston Museum District, la Logue House, sede della Rice University's Shepherd School of Music.

Economia
Houston è famosa nel mondo per la sua industria energetica (in particolare petrolifera e del gas naturale), e aeronautica, ma anche per la sua ricerca biomedica. In crescita anche le fonti eoliche e solari. La città è il primo mercato per le esportazioni degli Stati Uniti, superando nel 2013 (secondo i dati diffusi dall'U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration") New York. Nel 2012, l'area di Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land ha registrato 110,3 miliardi di dollari in esportazioni di merci. Le principali tre destinazioni sono Messico, Brasile, Canada.

Nel 2012 Houston è stata classificata al primo posto da Forbes per gli stipendi, mentre alla fine di maggio 2013 è stata identificata come la prima città negli Stati Uniti per la creazione di occupazione.

A Houston ha sede A.D. Vision, una celebre azienda del settore dell'intrattenimento.

Infrastrutture e trasporti
Il principale gestore del trasporto pubblico locale è l'azienda Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO), che si occupa della gestione della rete automobilistica e dalla rete tranviaria METRORail, composta da tre linee per una lunghezza totale di 38,3 km con 37 stazioni.

La città è servita anche dall'Aeroporto Intercontinentale di Houston-George Bush. Houston possiede il maggior numero di ciclisti nello stato del Texas, con oltre 160 miglia di piste ciclabili. Attualmente è in fase di completamento un progetto di espansione delle piste ciclabili.

Amministrazione

Gemellaggi

Sport
Houston ha rappresentative in tutte le leghe professionistiche statunitensi, tranne la National Hockey League:
 Gli Houston Texans (NFL - football americano) giocano al NRG Stadium
 Gli Houston Rockets (NBA - basket) giocano al Toyota Center
 Gli Houston Astros (MLB - baseball) giocano al Minute Maid Park
 Gli Houston Dynamo (MLS - calcio) giocano al BBVA Stadium
 Gli Houston SaberCats (MLR - rugby) giocano all' Aveva Stadium.

Il Rice Stadium, presso l'Università Rice, fu sede dell'VIII Super Bowl, mentre il XXXVIII e LI sono stati disputati al NRG Stadium nel febbraio 2004 e 2017.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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