It takes a village
Meet the New York City run crew designed for the South Asian community. Meet the Masala Milers.
South Asians are one of the fastest growing demographic groups in the USA over the past 25 years. There are 5.1 million South Asians across the country – up from 2.2 million in 2000. An estimated 25% of whom are in New York City, with some districts of Queens boasting 20% of their population to be South Asian. So far, so what, right?
I live in Los Angeles, where less than 2.5% of the population identifies as South Asian, a far cry from being in Queens, or London, where 1 in 5 people look like me, rather than 1 in 40. Living here reminds me of running 20 years ago. I just don’t see people like me.
However, the growth in the South Asian population in the US over the past 25 years, coupled with the 50% increase in runners over the past decade, has simply meant that there are more people of every splinter of society running.
In the USA, national organizations like Latinos Run and Black Men Run have both been in operation for …
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