Daily Links
March 31st, 2009-
Kent’s diversity is easy to take for granted, Chris Magdamit readily admits. The technical writer says a recent business trip to Oklahoma City was an eye-opener.
"I saw two Asian faces the entire week I was there, and I was actively looking because I wanted to talk to them to see why they ended up there" in Oklahoma, says Magdamit, who is Filipino American.Magdamit, 31, shares a Kent house with his brother and sister-in-law, both of whom were lured by the city’s lower housing prices after searching homes in Seattle, the Eastside and the North Puget Sound. Even though there is a concentration of Filipinos in Kent, Magdamit says the Filipino community is not as tight-knit as that of his hometown of Port Orchard. Because there were so few, Filipinos tended to stick together, Magdamit says.