> Temin avoids mentioning Asians, who have a higher average income than whites Asians have higher average income than whites, but they are not wealthy in gener

> Temin avoids mentioning Asians, who have a higher average income than whites Asians have higher average income than whites, but they are not wealthy in general. Income != wealth. Also, asians are the least likely to be promoted or advance in their careers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_ceiling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_ceiling Asians are underrepresented in the billionaire class or the elite class. Also, "asian" is a very fraught term. Some of the poorest people in america are asians ( hmong, cambodians, etc ). Asians are discriminated against in college admissions. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/harvard-asian-admission.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/harvard-asian-admissio... > despite many being relative newcomers to the country. Asians are relative newcomers for a reason. Racist laws which banned asians from immigrating to the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924 Also, multigeneration asians like the chinese and japanese had their wealth stolen many times in the US. During the pogroms against the chinese in the 1800s, their gold mines, stores, homes, etc were all stolen from them. The japanese americans had their property stolen by the US government. > That would undermine the narrative of a static class structure. It doesn't. Your argument just shows that some asians went into higher paying industries ( primarily tech ). But asians are highly underrepresented in management, C-Suite, boards, etc of the tech industry. In other words asians are primarily confined in the lower levels of the tech industry. Just because the tech industry pays their lower level staff better than other industries doesn't change anything. Asian americans in the US are proof of "static class structure" as they are primarily stuck in their "class structure". Things obviously have improved for all minorities in the US. Asians aren't being lynched and robbed by the government/people like in the 1800s and asians are allowed to immigrate to the US, unlike for most of the 1900s, but asians are still a minority and they are obstacles for asians.