Really? Don't generalize. You haven't seen the Queens, NY Chinese ghettos. They are filthy, the people there never bother to learn English, all the signs are in Chinese, and they practice their old-country cruelty to animals. Their god is MONEY and how to amass the most. I have to tell old Chinese women to beat it when I catch them trying to raid my recycling can for bottles to redeem. I redeem them myself; who wants bum-looking strangers right up by your porch going through your garbage? Oh yeah, and then there's the "hotels" in very dubious places, like in the end of a cul de sac full of lumberyards and plumbing supplies stores. Obviously hot sheet "hotels" run by Chinese.
Of course, there are plenty of Chinese in Queens who achieve very high academic records in school, run above-board businesses and make good neighbors. But don't stereotype all Chinese here as "model citizens". You'll be first shocked, then disappointed.
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“and for the most part the chinese are model citizens with higher incomes, higher education and lower crime rates than caucasians.”
I believe that statement is correct and I am talking about averages. Of course not every chinese is a model citizen. I am comparing them to caucasians.
Chinese culture is different - they are good at making money and holding onto it, but they are also very generous within the family. But there is also is a big difference between recent immigrants who grew up poor in Communist countries and every other type. Survival skills developed under Communism and (unnecessarily) practiced in the USA often come off to us as "bum" or "greedy" behavior. The Chinese peasant who manages to get to New York and work in a restaurant (and don't ask me how they get in legally) is an entirely different type of human being than, say, a Taiwanese grad student.
If our current President manages to serve out his full term, we may all find ourselves reduced to raiding recycling cans for food money.