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Have you ever looked at stats re the Hmong American demographic? I’m intimately aware of yellow privilege in police stops but would love to see the data on poo
by bitxbitxbitcoin 3y ago
Have you ever looked at stats re the Hmong American demographic?
I’m intimately aware of yellow privilege in police stops but would love to see the data on poor Asians being nearly three times more likely to escape poverty than poor whites round these parts.
- rayiner 3y agoI don’t think white racists can tell the difference between Hmong and Vietnamese, who have quickly matched other Americans income-wise despite being one of the highest poverty groups in the 1980 census: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/vietnamese-immigrants-united-states https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/vietnamese-immigrant.... Re: income mobility: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/21/17139300/economic-mobility-study-race-black-white-women-men-incarceration-income-chetty-hendren-jones-porter https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/21/17139300/e... (“Among children who grew up in the bottom fifth of the distribution, 10.6 percent of whites make it into the top fifth of household incomes themselves, as do 25.5 percent of Asian-Americans.”)