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> If you're Chinese, you gotta be really smart, the top 1% smart, to immigrate into the US. Ridiculous. There are long established Chinese communities in the

by zepto 5y ago

> If you're Chinese, you gotta be really smart, the top 1% smart, to immigrate into the US. Ridiculous. There are long established Chinese communities in the US who came over to be railroad laborers. Why would they somehow be in the top 1% smart?

chongli 5y ago
From 1860 to 2016 the number of Asian Americans increased from 34,000 to over 20,000,000, according to U.S. census data [1]. The vast majority of that increase took place since 1950, which only recorded a population of 300,000. Those long established Chinese families represent a tiny minority of Asian American university students. The vast majority are international students or first generation immigrants. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Asian_Americans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Asian_American...
- kaitai 5y ago
  Moreover, Asian American immigrants encompass groups as diverse as Vietnamese and Hmong and Cambodian immigrants fleeing war and persecution, Chinese graduate students coming to study astrophysics and staying, and Filipino immigrants coming to work in healthcare. The educational outcomes of these groups are quite diverse; in fact if you are one of eight children living in poverty with illiterate parents you don't just magically do well in school because of your Asian heritage. If you want some vivid illustrations of divergent Asian American trajectories in the US, check out tensions around the Siskiyou fire...
- zepto 5y ago
  > Those long established Chinese families represent a tiny minority of Asian American university students. I’m sure it doesn’t help that admissions discriminate against them because they look similar to the international students and first generation immigrants.
dragonwriter 5y ago
> There are long established Chinese communities in the US who came over to be railroad laborers. Descendants of those people are a tiny part of the Asian population (though probably formed an important part of the initial cultural support network for later immigrants, at least those settling in the area where those earlier groups were concentrated.)
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by zepto 5y ago

chongli 5y ago

From 1860 to 2016 the number of Asian Americans increased from 34,000 to over 20,000,000, according to U.S. census data [1]. The vast majority of that increase took place since 1950, which only recorded a population of 300,000. Those long established Chinese families represent a tiny minority of Asian American university students. The vast majority are international students or first generation immigrants. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Asian_Americans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Asian_American...

kaitai 5y ago
Moreover, Asian American immigrants encompass groups as diverse as Vietnamese and Hmong and Cambodian immigrants fleeing war and persecution, Chinese graduate students coming to study astrophysics and staying, and Filipino immigrants coming to work in healthcare. The educational outcomes of these groups are quite diverse; in fact if you are one of eight children living in poverty with illiterate parents you don't just magically do well in school because of your Asian heritage. If you want some vivid illustrations of divergent Asian American trajectories in the US, check out tensions around the Siskiyou fire...
zepto 5y ago
> Those long established Chinese families represent a tiny minority of Asian American university students. I’m sure it doesn’t help that admissions discriminate against them because they look similar to the international students and first generation immigrants.

dragonwriter 5y ago

> There are long established Chinese communities in the US who came over to be railroad laborers. Descendants of those people are a tiny part of the Asian population (though probably formed an important part of the initial cultural support network for later immigrants, at least those settling in the area where those earlier groups were concentrated.)

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