{"id":315849,"date":"2025-10-19T11:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/315849\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T11:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:16:10","slug":"dallas-fort-worth-becoming-hotbed-of-south-asian-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/315849\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas-Fort Worth becoming hotbed of South Asian culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Readers might recall my note from the Aug. 17 edition where I detailed the ways, large and small, in which Asian countries are putting their inimitable stamp on North Texas, and bringing lots of business with them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alas, I neglected to mention India.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, we have Brian Womack to remind us this week. His richly-reported dispatch shines light on how Dallas-Fort Worth is turning into a hotbed of South Asian culture \u2014 with numerous food and retail establishments taking hold, many of them in booming Collin County. <\/p>\n

As one representative from the U.S.-India Chamber of Commerce tells Womack, the blossoming of Indian retailers \u201cmight be considered \u2014 from an economic standpoint \u2014 leading indicators.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reasons are hardly surprising, given D-FW is becoming a nexus of skilled labor and Asian culture as the regional economy becomes increasingly reliant on technology. The tech sector, of course, employs lots of workers on H-1B visas, who in turn import comforts from their home country. <\/p>\n

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Our cover story is a reminder that India is the top country of origin for H-1B workers \u2014 with D-FW rounding out the top five metro areas that absorb said folks, according to Pew Research data<\/a> analyzing 2024 trends. (Fun fact: College Station has the highest concentration of H-1B approvals, Pew found, with 7 per every 100 workers in the area in 2023.)<\/p>\n

Curiously, D-FW has more visa workers than Austin, a region that\u2019s long been synonymous<\/a> with Texas\u2019 tech culture. It\u2019s a primary reason the Trump administration\u2019s new visa policy triggered \u201cabsolute panic\u201d<\/a> in North Texas and beyond, as South Asian students and skilled workers<\/a> reacted to the change in fees. <\/p>\n

And while we were sleeping, a Japan-based company started a new project in the area. Just days ago, Japan-based Kintetsu Group Holdings broke ground on the Miyako Hybrid Hotel, a $117.5 million project in Plano. (As I mentioned in August, Japan and Texas have ties worth $31 billion.)<\/p>\n

The Lone Star State\u2019s ties to Asia are good for business, but the flourishing of shops and eateries underscores how much these countries add to the tapestry of the region. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Readers might recall my note from the Aug. 17 edition where I detailed the ways, large and small,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":315850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,64,1596,66255,79,56752,8617,1931,6270,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-315849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-economic-snapshot","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-future-of-north-texas-economy","14":"tag-grocery","15":"tag-indian-food","16":"tag-retail","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115400552516297993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}