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Asian Americans

Asian Americans arc Americans of Asian descent. They include groups such as Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Cambodian/Khmer, Pakistani Americans and others whose national origin is from the Asian condncnt. 

Overall, Asian Americans have the lowest poverty rate and the hi^iest educational attainment levels, median household income, and median personal income of any racial demographic in the nation. Asian Americans make up the third largest minority group in the United States.

The term Asian American was used informally by activists in the 1960s who sought an alternative to the term Oriental, arguing that the latter was derogatory and colonialist. Formal usage was introduced by academics in the early 1970s, notably by historian Yuji Ichioka, who is credited with popularizing the term. Today, Asian American is the acceptcd term for most formal purposes, such as government and academic research, althou^i it is often shortened to Asian in common usage.

In contrast to the involuntary nature of some groups' original entry into the US, Asian Americans have typically been voluntary immigrants firom abroad. The historical record shows that Asian Americans, living the US for well over 100 years, have suiTered from racism. Subject to exploitation, violence, strict immigration quotas, and even mass imprisonment (in the case of 90% of all Japanese Americans during World War n), Asian Americans have struggled against values of white supremacy.

Because of their more recent immigration, new Asian immigrants also have had different educational, economic and other characteristics than early 20th century immigrants. They also tend to have different employment and settlement patterns in the United States.Today they comprise some 10 million people and thought to be the fastest growing minority group, principally as a consequence of the liberalization of immigration laws. Two characteristics of the group of Americans of Asian descent are growth and diversity. Althou^i they are just 3.7% of the US population, they are the third largest racial/ethnic minority after blacks and Hispanics. Despite the diversity among groups of Asian Americans, they have long been treated as a monolithic group in the US, and extremely different Asian nationalities have been lumped together in past discrimination and present stereotyping.

In reality, Americans of Asian descent define their identity by their status as a racial minority, their ancestry, and their participation in American society as contributing members. Asian Americans immigrated at very different stages in US history, leaving behind a bewildering array of cultural experiences, so that thcir patterns of work, settlement, and family life have varied greatly. Most can rejuvenate thcir ethnic culture because the traditions live on in the home countries. Yet they have been expected to assimilate rather than preserve elements of thcir cultural heritage. Asian Americans are often viewed as a “model minorityw that has successfully overcome disciimination. This image disguises lingering maltreatment and denies them the opportunities afforded other racial minorities. Individual cases of success and some impressive group data do not imply that the diverse groups of peoples who make up the Asian American community are uniformly successful. Indeed, despite significantly high level of formal schooling, Asian Americans earn far less than Whites and continue to be victims of discriminatory employment practices.

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