I recall couple years back when I was visiting new model homes, I saw quite a few Persian families. But recently I haven't seen any, it's mostly Asians. I'm curious as to what the demographic numbers for Persians in Irvine?
Also, I was walking around Woodbridge Lake (north) last weekend, near the restaurant area. I don't know if it's pure coincidence, but I bumped into 3 Russian speaking families along the lake and they don't appear to be related. Perhaps my Russian isn't very good and some were actually speaking another Eastern European language, but it was just odd that I'd suddenly bump into 3 East-Euro families in a row?
As for race and ethnicity... we have this weird PC multicultural thing about lumping people into 4 racial groups here, White, African-American, Asian-American, and Hispanic. There's also American Indian but you rarely see them here. We also like to use words like "Korean American", "Chinese American", etc. I other places like, say, Malaysia, they don't say "Chinese Malaysian", but do use "bumiputra" (ethnic Malay/indigenous) for affirmative action purposes.
p.s. if you guys are looking for girls, for heaven's sake just go take some classes at IVCC or UCI and meet girls in Tennis or something. Stalking apartment buildings is just creepy.