In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “mericans of palestinian ancestry”. Today it says “mericans who are of full or partial palestinian descent”.
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The opening as it read in October 6, 2023
Palestinian descent Ethnic group Palestinian Americans ( ) are Americans who are of full or partial Palestinian descent . It is unclear when the first Palestinian immigrants arrived in the United States , but it is believed that they arrived during the early 1900s. Enumerating at 170,000 individuals, the Palestinian community in the United States is rather scant, making up less than half a tenth of a percentage of the U.S. population. However, this number could be underestimated as Palestinian Americans may consider themselves as just Arab (600,000 people identify themselves as "Arab" or "Other Arab" on the Census), or some Palestinian immigrants with less immersion in the English language may not be able to fill out the Census form with accurate information. There is not yet an Arab or Middle Eastern/North African ( MENA ) category on the Census, and this notion is being considered. The Palestinian community is concentrated in the Chicago , Detroit , Los Angeles , San Francisco Bay Area , and New York City metropolitan areas.1 Some Palestinians have emigrated to smaller metropolitan or micropolitan/rural areas such as Gallup, New Mexico , in the late 20th and 21st century.
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Ethnic group Palestinian Americans are Americans of Palestinian ancestry. It is difficult to say when the first Palestinian immigrants arrived at the United States ; however, many of the first immigrants to arrive were Christians emigrating from the South of Ottoman Syria in the late 1800s, others came as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the Six Day War . Palestinians settled down in cities like New York , Los Angeles and Detroit alongside other Arab communities such as the Lebanese and Yemenis . Monterrey, Mexico has a large population of Christian Palestinians, and a Palestinian community of about 600 persons can be found in Gallup, New Mexico . According to the 2000 U.S.Census, there were 72,112 people of Palestinian ancestry living in the United States. However, The Arab American Institute Foundation estimates the figure at 252,000 while the Palestinian American Council puts it at 179,000 (1999) .
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It is difficult to say when the first Palestinian immigrants arrived in the United States ; however, many of the first immigrants to arrive were Christians escaping persecution from the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th century.Others came as a result of the tension during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the 1967 Six-Day War .
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Ethnic group Palestinian Americans ( ), are Americans who are of full or partial Palestinian descent .It is unclear when the first Palestinian immigrants arrived into the United States .Later immigrants came to the country fleeing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict .
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Americans of full or partial Palestinian descent Ethnic group Palestinian Americans ( Arabic : فلسطينيو أمريكا , romanized : Filasṭīnīyū Amrīkā ) are Americans who are of full or partial Palestinian descent .There are around 160,000 Palestinian Americans according to the 2023 American Community Survey, making up around 0.05% of the U.S. population.The Palestinian community is concentrated in the Chicago , New York City , Philadelphia , Houston , and Detroit metropolitan areas, with other populations in the Los Angeles and San Francisco metropolitan areas. Some Palestinians have emigrated to smaller metropolitan or micropolitan/rural areas, such as Gallup, New Mexico , in the late 20th and 21st century.
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mericans of palestinian ancestry
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mericans who are of full or partial palestinian descent
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