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For many Asians being FOB was an advantage. They had not been subjected to centuries of discrimination. I believe that immigrants coming from Africa do better i
by complexworld 6y ago
For many Asians being FOB was an advantage. They had not been subjected to centuries of discrimination. I believe that immigrants coming from Africa do better in the US, on average, because they usually come from the educated elite of their home country.
The opposite occurs for some Asians minorites who were poor and uneducated in their home countries, they don't do anywhere near as well as the Asians who come from a privileged background.
Does that answer your question?
- throwaway316943 6y agoIt would seem that discrimination only affects non-immigrants then? Or do wealth and education allow you to succeed in spite of discrimination? Or does the US actually have a problem with discrimination against poor, uneducated people regardless of race?
- bsanr2 6y agoPoverty is a multiplier for racial discrimination. At some level of "poor", a white person's circumstances can certainly be materially as bad as a (wealthier) black person's. But, as a comparison: no one is going to arrest Michio Kaku or Carl Sagan for breaking into his own house because he forgot his key.