Lebanese Americans
Lebanese Americans (Arabic: أمريكيون لبنانيون) are Americans of Lebanese descent. This includes both those who are native to the United States of America, as well as immigrants from Lebanon.
Lebanese Americans comprise 0.79% of the American population, as of the American Community Survey estimations for year 2007, and 32.4% of all Americans who originate from the Middle East.[2] Lebanese Americans have had significant participation in American politics and involvement in both social and political activism. The diversity within the region sprouted from the diaspora of the surrounding countries. There are more Lebanese outside Lebanon today than within.
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Religion[edit]
Most of the Lebanese immigrants during the first and the early part of the second waves were Christians. Muslims followed in large numbers beginning in the late 1960s. Among the minority, there are Shia and Sunni Muslim communities. A number of Jews fled Lebanon for the United States due to fears of persecution, and populations of Druze and atheists also exist.[4] This information has been distributed by all American organizations, including the Arab American Institute and the United States census team.
The United States is the second largest home of Druze communities outside the Middle East after Venezuela (60,000).[5] According to some estimates there are about 30,000[6] to 50,000[7] Druzes in the United States, with the largest concentration in Southern California.[8] Most Druze immigrated to the U.S. from Lebanon and Syria.[9]