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The tiger mother thing isn't coming from the stereotype of what it's like to be a descendent of a southern Chinese immigrating in the 19th century. It's coming

by dmoy 10y ago

The tiger mother thing isn't coming from the stereotype of what it's like to be a descendent of a southern Chinese immigrating in the 19th century. It's coming from the current wave of Chinese, which is not accurately captured from that wiki article. There's a lot of not super wealthy older Chinese families in the US, who came over a long time ago. Contrast that with Taiwanese American families, they're coming more from the 60s & 70s of the 20th century (not all, but more). There's also like an order of magnitude or two more (non-Taiwanese) Chinese American than there are Taiwanese American. It would be more like if you cherry picked out the current class of very rich Chinese who send their kids to Uni in the US and buy up investment visas, and then were surprised when their descendants were richer.

99_00 10y ago
In 1960s there were 237,292 Chinese-Americans. In 2010 there are 3,794,673. I suspect that increase is due to new wave immigration rather than natural population growth. So I don't think the poorer old time families are a factor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chinese_Americans#Statistics_of_the_Chinese_population_in_the_United_States_.281840.E2.80.932010.29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chinese_Americans#S... >It would be more like if you cherry picked out the current class of very rich Chinese who send their kids to Uni in the US and buy up investment visas, and then were surprised when their descendants were richer. Actually, I think if we included the super rich mainland Chinese who buy their way in we'd see even lower declared incomes. Study reveals awfulness of Canadian investor immigration [most of whom are Chinese]; income tax averages C$1,400 per millionaire http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1929324/study-reveals-awfulness-canadian-investor-immigration-income-tax http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1929324/study-reve...

by dmoy 10y ago

99_00 10y ago

In 1960s there were 237,292 Chinese-Americans. In 2010 there are 3,794,673. I suspect that increase is due to new wave immigration rather than natural population growth. So I don't think the poorer old time families are a factor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chinese_Americans#Statistics_of_the_Chinese_population_in_the_United_States_.281840.E2.80.932010.29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chinese_Americans#S... >It would be more like if you cherry picked out the current class of very rich Chinese who send their kids to Uni in the US and buy up investment visas, and then were surprised when their descendants were richer. Actually, I think if we included the super rich mainland Chinese who buy their way in we'd see even lower declared incomes. Study reveals awfulness of Canadian investor immigration [most of whom are Chinese]; income tax averages C$1,400 per millionaire http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1929324/study-reveals-awfulness-canadian-investor-immigration-income-tax http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1929324/study-reve...