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<blockquote data-quote="inactive" data-source="post: 1908990" data-attributes="member: 7488"><p>Head to larger metro areas - Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, New York - and you'll see large amounts of Asian immigrants (usually very recent) living in poverty. There's a large disparity in Asian socioeconomic status from top to bottom (compared to many other minorities), as they have arrived as both refugees as well as educated workers and students.</p><p></p><p>You are right though, that <em>Desi</em> Indian Americans are rather well off comparatively speaking. They could not immigrate into the States until the 1940s, and even then it was only at some ridiculously low rate of like 100 per year. Once the country started industrializing on their on, many became highly educated and come over here on work visas or student (usually graduate school, like PhD) visas. </p><p></p><p>In other words, Indians are very pool and only the ones that have substantial advantages "back home" have made it over. Contrast that to Blacks who were originally brought here as slave labor, and Hispanics who have recently come in legally and illegally with little to no educational or social advantages.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="inactive, post: 1908990, member: 7488"] Head to larger metro areas - Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, New York - and you'll see large amounts of Asian immigrants (usually very recent) living in poverty. There's a large disparity in Asian socioeconomic status from top to bottom (compared to many other minorities), as they have arrived as both refugees as well as educated workers and students. You are right though, that [I]Desi[/I] Indian Americans are rather well off comparatively speaking. They could not immigrate into the States until the 1940s, and even then it was only at some ridiculously low rate of like 100 per year. Once the country started industrializing on their on, many became highly educated and come over here on work visas or student (usually graduate school, like PhD) visas. In other words, Indians are very pool and only the ones that have substantial advantages "back home" have made it over. Contrast that to Blacks who were originally brought here as slave labor, and Hispanics who have recently come in legally and illegally with little to no educational or social advantages. [/QUOTE]
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