scarberiankhatru
Senior Member
It's seemed to me in the past that some Filipinos assimilate into the mainstream quickly while others assimilate into the Asian mainstream quickly...either way, neither of these routes lead to anything like a Little Manila. Filipinos are also not as spatially concentrated as some other groups, which tends to preempt even things like minor clusters of stores/services in strip malls. Part of it is cultural...there are more Filipinos than Koreans in Toronto but Koreans are quite disproportionately represented in the types of businesses that tend to constitute the physical fabric of Chinatowns/Little Italys. Of course, a serious detailed study could end up contradicting any of the reasons that have been tossed about here.