that is debatable actually because reams of illegal Asians who are quite poor or even technically indentured to whomever got them here do not report but what is true is that in the top 5 percentile of median income that Asians as a group double their proportional rate of the population, hence a lot of quite rich Asians whilst Whites are only somewhat overrepresented and Blacks and Latinos way underrepresented.
I realize that there are Chinese people smuggled over here in cargo containers to work as sex slaves and indentured servants. I have mixed emotions about that. First thought is it sucks. Second thought is it's great to live in a country where people are willing to spend 3 weeks living in a cargo container full of feces and risk their lives to come here.
Third thought for "progressives" who want to change America is why are no Americans going through the same misery to escape this "horrible" country to get to Cuba where there is free health care?
You have no idea how good you have it libs. Try living in real poverty. The "poor" in America have running water, cable TV, phones. They are so well off libs have to invent crap to worry about like there is too much fast food and obesity among the poor.
Send a lib food cop to a real poor country and tell them they can't have that Big Mac because it's bad for them. Then tell the oppressed citizen that they can't smoke either. Watch what happens. Hell, I'll pay $49.95 on pay per view to watch the beat down of that lib.
FWIW, I grew up in the rough and tumble streets of Outer Whitelandia in the suburbs of the DPRNJ.
All of my neighbors and friends in the 80’s were Chinese and Indian. They are all engineers or doctors today.
We had one kid in our HS, 9 years old, Chinese kid. He used to walk around the halls with his lunchbox. We thought he was one of the teachers kids. Then he sat next to me in AP Calculus. He was a student who came to the HS for math.
We all got 30’s on these tests which were thankfully graded on a curve. He got 100’s. Made us look like the idiots we were.
I read 10 years ago in the local paper that the kid graduated from Harvard Med School at age 21.
Indian Americans, Japanese Americans, Korean Americans, and Persian Americans (the last classified as “white”) all have income levels exceeding those of whites. I believe that among European Americans (excluding Jews, who cut across national boundaries) Greek Americans happen to have the highest per capita income. Its been over a decade since I’ve looked at income by ethnicity in my sociology class, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the figures were the same.