A while back, George Will created a nice phrase for that when he explained why early Europeans assimilated in America where current Hispanics don't. He said the Europeans were "psychologically guillotined" and because of the distance from the homeland, faced a sink-or-swim scenario that those weeping across the border didn't.
[sidebar]When I saw the article, the first thing that popped into my mind was "Well, that's one group who won't be fighting with the Blacks or Hispanics (some of them) for a piece of the welfare pie." From personal experience, where the others band together to fight "The Man", the Asians band together to put their people through school or to start businesses. Yeah, I know there are some bad ones, but they seem to me to be a minority in the numerical sense.
In my years teaching in my JHS Inever heard a Korean, Chinese, Bangladeshoi call his country “my country’ Conversely I rarely knew a Dominican, Colombian, Mexican etc, who didn’t. There was one memorable exception. A Columbian kid named Juan Carlos,JC to his friends. He always talked of how grateful he was to be here, but how much he loved Colombia. He graduated in the early 90s. he came back to visit a few years later, after the US had beaten Colombia in a World Cup Match. I said “JC, who did you root for?” He said “The USA!” Sometimes they do join the fold. as did another student from the DR. He joined the 69th NYNG and was KIA by an IED in Iraq. I’m proud I taught them both.