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Pew Research Center, released June 19, 2012
Overview
Asian Americans are the highest-income, best-educated and fastest-growing racial group in the United States. They are more satisfied than the general public with their lives, finances and the direction of the country, and they place more value than other Americans do on marriage, parenthood, hard work and career success, according to a comprehensive new nationwide survey by the Pew Research Center [....]
A century ago, most Asian Americans were low-skilled, low-wage laborers crowded into ethnic enclaves and targets of official discrimination. Today they are the most likely of any major racial or ethnic group in America to live in mixed neighborhoods and to marry across racial lines.[....]
These milestones of economic success and social assimilation have come to a group that is still majority immigrant. Nearly three-quarters (74%) of Asian-American adults were born abroad; of these, about half say they speak English very well and half say they don’t.
Asians recently passed Hispanics as the largest group of new immigrants to the United States. The educational credentials of these recent arrivals are striking [....]
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by artappraiser on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 12:55pm
As long as they're legal.
Being as smart as this article implies, maybe they can take away the jobs of the big CEO's in this country?
Maybe they'll do it for less money?
by Resistance on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 2:39am
A day or two ago, I heard a program on NPR (can't find which one, unfortunately--spent about 20 minutes looking and gave up)
talking about how Asian immigrants are interested in and are taking the high tech back room jobs that a lot of Americans aren't interested in. That Americans who go into high tech, who have spent the time and money getting educated in that area, do so wanting the "front room" jobs like in marketing, and aren't interested in doing things like crunching code in cubicles 10 hours a day. That this is the crux of many complaints you read/hear from corporations about not being able to fill certain necessary jobs with Americans. That it isn't so much about pay, it's about the type of jobs Americans educated in the area want and train for, whereas Asian foreigners trained in this "back room" stuff are precisely looking for and happy with jobs in the same.
I have noticed a somewhat similar divide in medicine, where the behind the scenes MD's like anesthesiologists and radiologists so often seem to be Asian immigrants.
As for rich immigrant CEO's, both Asian and Hispanic, there are some, but the ones I've read of aren't taking other CEOs' jobs; they are creating their own and jobs for others at the same time:
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 4:17pm
Asians also tend to be very, very conservative.
by cmaukonen on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 10:11am
It took me awhile, but I still think you should just post the damn blog. hahahaha
I blogged about this subject years ago. Sort of.
I worked at the Education Library at the U of M a hundred years ago on a work study program.
Now we have scanners, but back then I was the scanner!
I would work a shift until 11 PM when we closed and at 11:01 the engineering portion of our library would all file out. And I swear to Almighty God that every single person filing out of the library was Asian.
It was astounding to me in 1968 just as I am astounded today.
Am I astounded that the Chinese and the Japanese and the Koreans are doing so well right now?
NO!
by Richard Day on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 3:52pm
Surely a bit of higher-level cogitation and free-thinking individual effort on behalf of we white people will enable us to come up with a scheme to set these here Asiatics at the throats of them there Hispanishes. After all White America, we didn't make it to the top of Phylum Rodentia by playing nicey-nicey - and none of you seem the types to take too kindly to eatin' from cans. But if you wanna stay King Rat, you gotta PLAY like King Rat.
To whit. Time to pull up your knee-high sweat socks and wipe off the Euro-tan from a can, America. Welcome (back) to the working week. Herewith, a plan:
1st step: Brick up that border, stave in the docks, and cut off the foreigners supply lines.
2ndly: I wanna see every UFC fight you broadcast for the next 15 years set up as Korean fella v. a Dominican. Then China v. Mexico. Followed by Thailand v. Jamaicalahara.
After all, how do you think we taught our children to hate the Germans? WRESTLING. Cause it damn sure wasn't Hogan's Heroes.
There we go. A plan. But Jesus, people. Do I have to do all the heavy lifting myself?
by Qnonymous (not verified) on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 10:21pm
Nine Seventy Nine or Fight!
If we are gonna seal off border.
by EmmaZahn on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 10:54pm
Fuggedaboudit ya canuck, NYC sports fans are way ahead of yas, the salsa dancer and the Linsanity are so yesterday, in da trash can, the new "black" is a born-again Christian white guy who wanted to be an English professor when he grew up (but looks kinda like the Kenny Powers character on HBO)....
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 11:46pm
Wiki say:
Majored in English Literature. Missing a ligament in his elbow. Sexually abused as a kid. Tenneseean. Born again Christian. Carries around Yann Martel and Hemingway. Learns to throw the knuckler, gives up 6 home runs in his first start. Age 37, it all clicks, develops a major league career.
See, now that's a PROPER storyline. America needs more white people like him.
LEARN TO THROW KNUCKLERS, WHITE AMERICA!
YOU GOT NO HEAT LEFT, THE ARM'S GOT A LOT OF HARD INNINGS ON IT, AND THERE'S NOBODY WARMING UP IN THE BULLPEN.
FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY, STING LIKE A BEE!
by Qnonymous (not verified) on Thu, 06/21/2012 - 1:02am
One of the key stats here is that 74% of Asian-Americans were born abroad. Asian traditional cultures tend to be more conservative than your general liberal Western cultures in the sense that Asian cultures tend to subsume the individual into the group rather than putting the individual on the pedestal. My guess is when one looks at the second and third generation Asian Americans, they are more Western than Asian in their outlook.
The Asian cultures don't value family more than Western cultures, but rather have a difference in understanding the dynamics and roles of the family and the various individuals within it. The implications on the formation of identity and views of individual freedom and expression is what leads to some to view Asian-Americans (those who are more culturally tied to their Asian culture heritage) as being more conservative than less.
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One thing I noticed about the survey that caught my eye is that it includes those from India as being Asian-American. This is as should be, but I think many if not most Americans when they see the phrase "Asian-American" think of those who family is from China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, etc.
by Elusive Trope on Thu, 06/21/2012 - 8:52am
It's weird, as it compares a people descend from a single Iberian country with unrelated peoples with unrelated language from a wide swath of the largest continent & islands (includes Filipino, Thai, Vietnamese, Indian, Chinese, Japan - presumably Burma, Malay, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Laos & Nepal count as well)
And at 5.8% of total population for these 20 or more countries/ethnic groups, it's a resounding "who cares?" Trying to create a unified demographic out of all of these is pretty silly, but Pew does its best anyway. "Asians love their mothers - and rice". There, it's established. Funny they didn't ask about Euthanasia as long as they were on a roll.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 06/21/2012 - 9:21am
If you read the report, you can see they are not attempting to create an unified demographic.
A little example:
Moreover, they were comparing Asian-American immigrants with immigrants from other areas of the world. Of course, this means comparing one group which is quite diverse, with other large groups, each which are diverse. At some point, the generalizations become meaningless. But there is some value in comparing large groups.
For instance, one can do a comparison between Mid-West Americans and their politics with the politics of Northeast Americans. There are some generalizations one can make from the findings, but it is not going to give the whole story. To disregard the information value of the findings it does generate simply because it doesn't tell the whole story or capture all of the nuances is just plain stupid.
by Elusive Trope on Thu, 06/21/2012 - 9:43am
The survey doesn't mention Central Asians (Kazakhs, Kyrgyzs, Tajiks, Turkmens or Uzbeks), or even Russians. I could believe that there are very few Central Asian immigrants. Russian accents are quite numerous around my community pool, though, so I wonder if most of them are Euro-Russians.
by Donal on Thu, 06/21/2012 - 9:25am
As they state:
So the target of the study was on these specific groups because of their representative size in this country.
by Elusive Trope on Thu, 06/21/2012 - 9:48am