There still exist a bias against people who are frankly not White and Male.
Really...???
Asian-Americans Make the Most Money in the US
by Matthew Chen
With May being “Asian-American Heritage Month,� it might be appropriate to enlighten a few economic realities. America has 167 different ethnic groups in its population according to the US Census Report.
Amazingly, the highest income-earning ethnic groups per capita are five that eclipse the well-known performance of the Jewish-American group, who are only ranked 6th overall. And, the premier ethnic group of them all is the Asian-American group! They earn more income per capita in the US than any other group.
The five Asian ethnic groups who earn the most money are Indian-, Chinese, Japanese-, Korean-, and Vietnamese-Americans. To people in Peoria, diminutive Asians don’t look like traditional Americans, but economically and academically they tower above the rest of our society.
According to the investment journals who recommend the East-West Bancorp stock (EWBC), a bank in California that caters to Asian-American customers,
Asian-American families have an average income of $36,000 compared to all other US families at $25,000. And investment advisers say that the bank’s stock is a safe bet because Asian families don’t go bankrupt like other Americans. Others have asserted that per capita income by Asian-American is $40,000 compared to other Americans who are well below $30,000...
Many Asian-American roots in US society are from the insular ghettos known as “Little Saigons and Chinatowns.�
And while mainstream American society promotes permissive values like divorce, substance abuse, fatherless children, welfare dependency, self-absorption, credit card debt, multiple sex partners, and Marxist perspectives, the Asian family is largely held together by values that other Americans gleefully discarded beginning in the mid-1960′s with the Sexual Revolution.
One can certainly see the stark difference between Asian socialization in America compared to all other ethnic groups by reading Amy Chua’s New York Times bestseller “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Moms�, a controversial tome that questions how other American mothers raise their children.
For in Asian-American culture, there is little emphasis on “self-esteem studies�, “diversity studies�, “Marxist social theory�, or the “liberal arts�.
Instead Asian-American children are rigorously prepared to study advanced medicine, engineering, international finance, mathematics and other hard sciences compared to the “soft sciences� in which other American students overindulge.
Asian American performance has dominated US academies and income earning standards ever since the early days of Ronald Reagan. So much so, that TIME and NEWSWEEK magazines have heralded them as “America’s Model Minority� on their front covers as much as 30 years ago. Many authors have celebrated Asian-Americans as the “New Jews� because of their entrepreneurial tenacity and their formidable self-discipline. For even the poor among Asian-Americans are far less self-destructive and much more frugal compared to the rest of America’s poor.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.
-T.E. Lawrence