[Clemenza]

Also most Asian cultures have a much heavier respect and emphasis on education, a sure way to avoid backbreaking labor and instead earn an air-conditioned desk job.

Like comparing apples to oranges or avocado to lychee. Most Asians who come to this country and are successful were at least Middle Class and higher, as it is EXPENSIVE to immigrate here from China and India. There are a few who come as slave labor (and work piecemeal jobs in garment factories here in NYC) and are VERY poor, even here in the US. The reason Asiatics are the "model minority" that white people often point to is that most Asians (especially Koreans and Indians) come hear with at least a middle class background.

[Skywalk]

Yes and no.

Not all Vietnamese came here as "middle-class"(and what is middle-class in VN during the 60/70s or Korea in the 70s?)


BTW, I don't like the derisive tone usually associated with "model minority" because typically the next word that follows it is "myth." Unfortunately for the race pimps, when speaking in generalities there will always be large numbers of exceptions. However, the facts speak for themselves--and if you want a reason for Asians success, it ain't that they were middle class.

I've known too many people whose parents started as boat people with little education or wealth.

The worst part of it is, many asians(and others), will point out the exceptions among Asians to prove...prove what? Prove that a generalization isn't correct. Well whoop-dee-do, Basil. I suppose we should point to Miguel Estrada as the norm among hispanics.

I guess then, because we have poor people in the US, we should discount the general reality of the freedom and economic opportunity here?