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This article is about the U.S. population of Americans of Asian ancestry. For populations of Asians across the Americas, see Asians in the Americas.

Asian Americans
Total population
21,655,368[1]
6.8% of the total U.S. population (2016)
Regions with significant populations
California 5,556,592
New York 1,579,494
Texas 1,110,666
New Jersey 795,163
Hawaii 780,968
Illinois 668,694
Washington 604,251
Florida 573,083
Virginia 522,199
Pennsylvania 402,587
Languages
Religion
Christian (42%)
Unaffiliated (26%)
Buddhist (14%)
Hindu (10%)
Muslim (4%)
Sikh (1%)
Other (2%) including Jain, Zoroastrian, Shinto, and Chinese folk religion (Taoist, Tengrism and Confucian)[3]
Related ethnic groups
Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The term refers to a panethnic group that includes diverse populations, which have ancestral origins in East Asia, Southeast Asia, or South Asia, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau.[4] This includes people who indicate their race(s) on the census as "Asian" or reported entries such as "Asian Indian, Thai, Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Pakistani, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Other Asian".[5] Asian Americans with no other ancestry comprise 5.4% of the U.S. population, while people who are Asian alone, and those combined with at least one other race, make up 6.8%.[1]

Although migrants from Asia have been in parts of the contemporary United States since the 17th century, large-scale immigration did not begin until the mid-18th century. Nativist immigration laws during the 1880s–1920s excluded various Asian groups, eventually prohibiting almost all Asian immigration to the continental United States. After immigration laws were reformed during the 1940s–60s, abolishing national origins quotas, Asian immigration increased rapidly. Analyses of the 2010 census have shown that Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial or ethnic minority in the United States.[6]

Terminology[edit]

As with other racial and ethnicity-based terms, formal and common usage have changed markedly through the short history of this term. Prior to the late 1960s, people of Asian ancestry were usually referred to as Oriental, Asiatic, and Mongoloid.[7][8] Additionally, the American definition of 'Asian' originally included West Asian ethnic groups, particularly Afghan Americans, Jewish Americans, Armenian Americans, Assyrian Americans, and Arab Americans, although these groups are now considered Middle Eastern American.[9][10][11] The term Asian American was coined by historian Yuji Ichioka, who is credited with popularizing the term, to frame a new "inter-ethnic-pan-Asian American self-defining political group" in the late 1960s.[7] Changing patterns of immigration and an extensive period of exclusion of Asian immigrants have resulted in demographic changes that have in turn affected the formal and common understandings of what defines Asian American. For example, since the removal of restrictive "national origins" quotas in 1965, the Asian-American population has diversified greatly to include more of the peoples with ancestry from various parts of Asia.[12]

Today, "Asian American" is the accepted term for most formal purposes, such as government and academic research, although it is often shortened to Asian in common usage,[13] the most commonly used definition of Asian American is the U.S. Census Bureau definition, which includes all people with origins in the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent,[5] this is chiefly because the census definitions determine many governmental classifications, notably for equal opportunity programs and measurements.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "Asian person" in the United States is sometimes thought of as a person of East Asian descent;[14][15] in vernacular usage, "Asian" is often used to refer to those of East Asian descent or anyone else of Asian descent with epicanthic eyefolds.[16] This differs from the U.S. Census definition[5][17] and the Asian American Studies departments in many universities consider all those of East, South or Southeast Asian descent to be "Asian".[18]

Census definition[edit]

In the US Census, people with origins or ancestry in the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent are classified as part of the Asian race;[19] while those with origins or ancestry in North Asia (Russians, Siberians), Central Asia (Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Turkmens, Tajiks, Kyrgyz, etc.), Western Asia (diaspora Jews, Turks, Persians, Kurds, Assyrians, West Asian Arabs, Afghans, etc.), and the Caucasus (Georgians, Armenians, Azeris, etc.) are classified as "white" or "Middle Eastern".[20][21] As such, "Asian" and "African" ancestry are seen as racial categories for the purposes of the Census, since they refer to ancestry only from those parts of the Asian and African continents that are outside the Middle East and North Africa.

In 1980 and before, Census forms listed particular Asian ancestries as separate groups, along with white and black or negro.[22] Asian Americans had also been classified as "other";[23] in 1977, the federal Office of Management and Budget issued a directive requiring government agencies to maintain statistics on racial groups, including on "Asian or Pacific Islander".[24] By the 1990 census, "Asian or Pacific Islander (API)" was included as an explicit category, although respondents had to select one particular ancestry as a subcategory.[25] Beginning with the 2000 census, two separate categories were used: "Asian American" and "Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander".[26]

Debates[edit]

The definition of Asian American has variations that derive from the use of the word American in different contexts. Immigration status, citizenship (by birthright and by naturalization), acculturation, and language ability are some variables that are used to define American for various purposes and may vary in formal and everyday usage,[27] for example, restricting American to include only U.S. citizens conflicts with discussions of Asian American businesses, which generally refer both to citizen and non-citizen owners.[28]

In a PBS interview from 2004, a panel of Asian American writers discussed how some groups include people of Middle Eastern descent in the Asian American category.[29] Asian American author Stewart Ikeda has noted, "The definition of 'Asian American' also frequently depends on who's asking, who's defining, in what context, and why... the possible definitions of 'Asian-Pacific American' are many, complex, and shifting... some scholars in Asian American Studies conferences suggest that Russians, Iranians, and Israelis all might fit the field's subject of study."[30] Jeff Yang, of the Wall Street Journal, writes that the panethnic definition of Asian American is a unique American construct, and as an identity is "in beta".[31]

Scholars have grappled with the accuracy, correctness, and usefulness of the term Asian American, the term "Asian" in Asian American most often comes under fire for encompassing a huge number of people with ancestry from (or who have immigrated from) a wide range of culturally diverse countries and traditions. In contrast, leading social sciences and humanities scholars of race and Asian American identity point out that because of the racial constructions in the United States, including the social attitudes toward race and those of Asian ancestry, Asian Americans have a "shared racial experience."[32] Because of this shared experience, the term Asian American is still a useful panethnic category because of the similarity of some experiences among Asian Americans, including stereotypes specific to people in this category.[32]

Demographics[edit]

Asian American population percentage by state in 2010
Percentage Asian American by county, 2010 Census
Main article: Demographics of Asian Americans

The demographics of Asian Americans describe a heterogeneous group of people in the United States who can trace their ancestry to one or more countries in Asia,[33] because Asian Americans compose 6% of the entire U.S. population, the diversity of the group is often disregarded in media and news discussions of "Asians" or of "Asian Americans."[34] While there are some commonalities across ethnic sub-groups, there are significant differences among different Asian ethnicities that are related to each group's history,[35] the Asian American population is greatly urbanized, with nearly three-quarters of them living in metropolitan areas with population greater than 2.5 million.[36] As of July 2015, California had the largest population of Asian Americans of any state, and Hawaii was the only state where Asian Americans were the majority of the population.[37]

The demographics of Asian Americans can further be subdivided into, as listed in alphabetical order:

Asian Americans include multiracial or mixed race persons with origins or ancestry in both the above groups and another race, or multiple of the above groups.

Language[edit]

In 2010, there were 2.8 million people (5 and older) who spoke a Chinese language at home;[38] after the Spanish language, it is the third most common language in the United States.[38] Other sizeable Asian languages are Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Korean, with all three having more than 1 million speakers in the United States.[38]

In 2012, Alaska, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Washington were publishing election material in Asian languages in accordance with the Voting Rights Act;[39] these languages include Tagalog, Mandarin Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish,[2] Hindi and Bengali.[39] Election materials were also available in Gujarati, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, and Thai.[40] A 2013 poll found that 48 percent of Asian Americans considered media in their native language as their primary news source.[41]

The 2000 Census found the more prominent languages of the Asian American community to include the Chinese languages (Cantonese, Taishanese, and Hokkien), Tagalog, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Hindi, Urdu, and Gujarati.[42] In 2008, the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tagalog, and Vietnamese languages are all used in elections in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Illinois, New York, Texas, and Washington state.[43]

Religion[edit]

A 2012 Pew Research Center study found the following breakdown of religious identity among Asian Americans:[44]

Religious Trends[edit]

The percentage of Christians among Asian Americans has declined sharply since the 1990s, chiefly due to largescale immigration from countries in which Christianity is a minority religion (China and India in particular); in 1990, 63% of the Asian Americans identified as Christians, while in 2001 only 43% did.[45] This development has been accompanied by a rise in traditional Asian religions, with the people identifying with them doubling during the same decade.[46]

History[edit]

Main article: History of Asian Americans
See also: Asian immigration to the United States

Early immigration[edit]

Five images of the Filipino settlement at Saint Malo, Louisiana

As Asian Americans originate from many different countries, each population has its own unique immigration history.[47]

Filipinos have been in the territories that would become the United States since the 16th century.[48] In 1635, an "East Indian" is listed in Jamestown, Virginia;[49] preceding wider settlement of Indian immigrants on the East Coast in the 1790s and the West Coast in the 1800s.[50] In 1763, Filipinos established the small settlement of Saint Malo, Louisiana, after fleeing mistreatment aboard Spanish ships.[51] Since there were no Filipino women with them, these 'Manilamen', as they were known, married Cajun and Native American women,[52] the first Japanese person to come to the United States, and stay any significant period of time was Nakahama Manjirō who reached the East Coast in 1841, and Joseph Heco became the first Japanese American naturalized US citizen in 1858.[53]

Chinese sailors first came to Hawaii in 1789,[54] a few years after Captain James Cook came upon the island. Many settled and married Hawaiian women. Most Chinese, Korean and Japanese immigrants in Hawaii arrived in the 19th century as laborers to work on sugar plantations.[55] There were thousands of Asians in Hawaii when it was annexed to the United States in 1898.[56] Later, Filipinos also came to work as laborers, attracted by the job opportunities, although they were limited.[57]

Large-scale migration from Asia to the United States began when Chinese immigrants arrived on the West Coast in the mid-19th century.[58] Forming part of the California gold rush, these early Chinese immigrants participated intensively in the mining business and later in the construction of the transcontinental railroad. By 1852, the number of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco had jumped to more than 20,000. A wave of Japanese immigration to the United States began after the Meiji Restoration in 1868;[59] in 1898, all Filipinos in the Philippine Islands became American nationals when the United States took over colonial rule of the islands from Spain following the latter's defeat in the Spanish–American War.[60]

Exclusion era[edit]

Under United States law during this period, particularly the Naturalization Act of 1790, only "free white persons" were eligible to naturalize as American citizens. Ineligibility for citizenship prevented Asian immigrants from accessing a variety of rights such as voting.[61] Bhicaji Balsara became the first known Indian-born person to gain naturalized U.S. citizenship.[62] Balsara’s naturalization was not the norm but an exception; in a pair of cases, Ozawa v. United States (1922) and United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923), the Supreme Court upheld the racial qualification for citizenship and ruled that Asians were not "white persons." Second-generation Asian Americans, however, could become U.S. citizens due to the birthright citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; this guarantee was confirmed as applying regardless of race or ancestry by the Supreme Court in United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898).[63]

From the 1880s to the 1920s, the United States passed laws inaugurating an era of exclusion of Asian immigrants, although the absolute numbers of Asian immigrants were small compared to that of immigrants from other regions, much of it was concentrated in the West, and the increase caused some nativist sentiment known as the "yellow peril". Congress passed restrictive legislation prohibiting nearly all Chinese immigration in the 1880s.[64] Japanese immigration was sharply curtailed by a diplomatic agreement in 1907, the Asiatic Barred Zone Act in 1917 further barred immigration from South Asia (then-British India), Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.[65] The Immigration Act of 1924 provided that no "alien ineligible for citizenship" could be admitted as an immigrant to the United States, consolidating the prohibition of Asian immigration.[66]

Postwar immigration[edit]

World War II-era legislation and judicial rulings gradually increased the ability of Asian Americans to immigrate and become naturalized citizens. Immigration rapidly increased following the enactment of the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965 as well as the influx of refugees from conflicts occurring in Southeast Asia such as the Vietnam War. Asian American immigrants have a significant percentage of individuals who have already achieved professional status, a first among immigration groups.[67]

The number of Asian immigrants to the United States "grew from 491,000 in 1960 to about 12.8 million in 2014, representing a 2,597 percent increase."[68] Asian Americans were the fastest-growing racial group between 2000 and 2010.[47][69][70] By 2012, more immigrants came from Asia than from Latin America;[71] in 2015, Pew Research Center found that from 2010 to 2015 more immigrants came from Asia than from Latin America, and that since 1965 Asians have made up a quarter of all immigrants.[72]

Asians have made up an increasing proportion of the foreign-born Americans: "In 1960, Asians represented 5 percent of the U.S. foreign-born population; by 2014, their share grew to 30 percent of the nation's 42.4 million immigrants."[68] As of 2016, "Asia is the second-largest region of birth (after Latin America) of U.S. immigrants."[68] In 2013, China surpassed Mexico as the top single country of origin for immigrants to the U.S.[73] Asian immigrants "are more likely than the overall foreign-born population to be naturalized citizens"; in 2014, 59% of Asian immigrants had U.S. citizenship, compared to 47% of all immigrants.[68] Postwar Asian immigration to the U.S. has been diverse: in 2014, 31% of Asian immigrants to the U.S. were from East Asian (predominately China and Korea); 27.7% were from South Asia (predominately India); 32.6% were from Southeastern Asia (predominately the Philippines and Vietnam) and 8.3% were from Western Asia.[68]

Asian American movement[edit]

Main article: Asian American movement

The Asian American movement refers to a pan-Asian movement in the United States in which Americans of Asian descent came together to fight against their shared oppression and to organize for recognition and advancement of their shared cause during the 1960s to the early 1980s. William Wei described the movement as "rooted in a past history of oppression and a present struggle for liberation."[74] This occurred around the same time as the Chicano movement, Civil Rights Movement, American Indian Movement and the gay liberation movement.

Notable contributions[edit]

For a more comprehensive list, see List of Asian Americans.

Arts and entertainment[edit]

Main article: Asian Americans in arts and entertainment
See also: Asian-American literature

Asian Americans have been involved in the entertainment industry since the first half of the 19th century, when Chang and Eng Bunker (the original "Siamese Twins") became naturalized citizens.[75] Acting roles in television, film, and theater were relatively few, and many available roles were for narrow, stereotypical characters. More recently, young Asian American comedians and film-makers have found an outlet on YouTube allowing them to gain a strong and loyal fanbase among their fellow Asian Americans.[76] There have been several Asian American-centric television shows in American media, beginning with Mr. T and Tina in 1976, and as recent as Fresh Off the Boat in 2015.[77]

Business[edit]

When Asian Americans were largely excluded from labor markets in the 19th century, they started their own businesses, they have started convenience and grocery stores, professional offices such as medical and law practices, laundries, restaurants, beauty-related ventures, hi-tech companies, and many other kinds of enterprises, becoming very successful and influential in American society. They have dramatically expanded their involvement across the American economy. Asian Americans have been disproportionately successful in the hi-tech sectors of California's Silicon Valley, as evidenced by the Goldsea 100 Compilation of America's Most Successful Asian Entrepreneurs.[78]

Compared to their population base, Asian Americans today are well represented in the professional sector and tend to earn higher wages,[79] the Goldsea compilation of Notable Asian American Professionals show that many have come to occupy high positions at leading U.S. corporations, including a surprising number as Chief Marketing Officers.[80]

Asian Americans have made major contributions to the American economy; in 2012, Asian Americans own 1.5 million businesses, employ around 3 million people who earn an annual total payroll of around $80 billion.[69] Fashion designer and mogul Vera Wang, who is famous for designing dresses for high-profile celebrities, started a clothing company, named after herself, which now offers a broad range of luxury fashion products. An Wang founded Wang Laboratories in June 1951. Amar Bose founded the Bose Corporation in 1964. Charles Wang founded Computer Associates, later became its CEO and chairman. Two brothers, David Khym and Kenny Khym founded Hip hop fashion giant Southpole (clothing) in 1991. Jen-Hsun Huang co-founded the NVIDIA corporation in 1993. Jerry Yang co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in 1994 and became its CEO later. Andrea Jung serves as Chairman and CEO of Avon Products. Vinod Khosla was a founding CEO of Sun Microsystems and is a general partner of the prominent venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Steve Chen and Jawed Karim were co-creators of YouTube, and were beneficiaries of Google's $1.65 billion acquisition of that company in 2006. In addition to contributing greatly to other fields, Asian Americans have made considerable contributions in science and technology in the United States, in such prominent innovative R&D regions as Silicon Valley and The Triangle.

Government and politics[edit]

Main article: Asian Americans in government and politics

Asian Americans have a high level of political incorporation in terms of their actual voting population, since 1907, Asian Americans have been active at the national level and have had multiple officeholders at local, state, and national levels.

The highest ranked Asian American in the legislature was Senator and President pro tempore Daniel Inouye, who died in office in 2012; by order of precedence the highest ranked Asian American in office is currently Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao. There are several active Asian Americans in the United States Congress. With higher proportions and densities of Asian American populations, Hawaii has most consistently sent Asian Americans to the Senate, and Hawaii and California have most consistently sent Asian Americans to the House of Representatives.

Journalism[edit]

Connie Chung was one of the first Asian American national correspondents for a major TV news network, reporting for CBS in 1971. She later co-anchored the CBS Evening News from 1993 to 1995, becoming the first Asian American national news anchor,[81] at ABC, Ken Kashiwahara began reporting nationally in 1974. In 1989, Emil Guillermo, a Filipino American born reporter from San Francisco, became the first Asian American male to co-host a national news show when he was senior host at National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." In 1990, Sheryl WuDunn, a foreign correspondent in the Beijing Bureau of The New York Times, became the first Asian American to win a Pulitzer Prize. Ann Curry joined NBC News as a reporter in 1990, later becoming prominently associated with The Today Show in 1997. Carol Lin is perhaps best known for being the first to break the news of 9-11 on CNN. Dr. Sanjay Gupta is currently CNN's chief health correspondent. Lisa Ling, a former co-host on The View, now provides special reports for CNN and The Oprah Winfrey Show, as well as hosting National Geographic Channel's Explorer. Fareed Zakaria, a naturalized Indian-born immigrant, is a prominent journalist and author specializing in international affairs. He is the editor-at-large of Time magazine, and the host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN. Juju Chang, James Hatori, John Yang, Veronica De La Cruz, Michelle Malkin, Betty Nguyen, and Julie Chen have become familiar faces on television news. John Yang won a Peabody Award. Alex Tizon, a Seattle Times staff writer, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1997.

Military[edit]

Main article: Military History of Asian Americans
See also: Notable Asian Americans in the Military

Since the War of 1812 Asian Americans have served and fought on behalf of the United States. Serving in both segregated and non-segregated units until the desegregation of the US Military in 1948, 31 have been awarded the nation's highest award for combat valor, the Medal of Honor. Twenty-one of these were conferred upon members of the mostly Japanese American 100th Infantry Battalion of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team of World War II, the most highly decorated unit of its size in the history of the United States Armed Forces,[82][83] the highest ranked Asian American military official was Secretary of Veteran Affairs, four-star general and Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki.[84]

Science and technology[edit]

Main article: Asian Americans in science and technology

Asian Americans have made many notable contributions to Science and Technology.

Sports[edit]

Main article: Asian Americans in sports

Asian Americans have contributed to sports in the United States through much of the 20th Century, some of the most notable contributions include Olympic sports, but also in professional sports, particularly in the post-World War II years. As the Asian American population grew in the late 20th century, Asian American contributions expanded to more sports.

Cultural influence[edit]

In recognition of the unique culture, traditions, and history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, the United States government has permanently designated the month of May to be Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.[85] Culture influences Asian American parenting in a major way as seen through relationships between Chinese parents and adolescence, these influences affect how parents regulate and monitor their children, and as been described as Tiger parenting.[86]

Health and medicine[edit]

See also: Health status of Asian Americans

Education[edit]

Educational Attainment
(25 and older)
Ethnicity High school
graduation rate
(2004) 		Bachelor's degree
or higher (2010)
Chinese 80.8% 51.8%
Filipinos 90.8% 48.1%
Indian 90.2% 70.7%
Japanese 93.4% 47.3%
Koreans 90.2% 52.9%
Pakistanis 87.4% 55.1%
Vietnamese 70.0% 26.3%
Total U.S. population 83.9% 27.9%
Sources: 2004[94][95][96] and 2010[97]

Among America's major racial categories, Asian Americans have the highest educational qualifications, this varies, however, for individual ethnic groups. For example, a 2010 study of all Asian American adults found 42% have at least a college degree, but only 16% of Vietnamese Americans and only 5% for Laotians and Cambodians,[98] it has been noted, however, that 2008 US Census statistics put the bachelor's degree attainment rate of Vietnamese Americans at 26%, which is not very different from the rate of 27% for all Americans.[99] Census data from 2010 show 50% of Asian adults have earned at least a bachelor's degree, compared to 28% for all Americans,[100] and 34% for non-Hispanic whites.[101] Indian Americans have some of the highest education rates, with nearly 71% having attained at least a bachelor's degree in 2010.[97] as of December 2012 Asian Americans made up twelve to eighteen percent of the student population at Ivy League schools, larger than their share of the population,[102] for example, the Harvard Class of 2016 is 21% Asian American.[103]

In the years immediately preceding 2012, 61% of Asian American adult immigrants have a bachelor or higher level college education.[47]

Social and political issues[edit]

Bamboo ceiling[edit]

Main article: Bamboo ceiling

This concept appears to elevate Asian Americans by portraying them as an elite group of successful, highly educated, intelligent, and wealthy individuals, but it can also be considered an overly narrow and overly one-dimensional portrayal of Asian Americans, leaving out other human qualities such as vocal leadership, negative emotions, risk taking, ability to learn from mistakes, and desire for creative expression.[104] Furthermore, Asian Americans who do not fit into the model minority mold can face challenges when people's expectations based on the model minority myth do not match with reality. Traits outside of the model minority mold can be seen as negative character flaws for Asian Americans despite those very same traits being positive for the general American majority (e.g., risk taking, confidence, empowered). For this reason, Asian Americans encounter a "bamboo ceiling", the Asian American equivalent of the glass ceiling in the workplace, with only 1.5% of Fortune 500 CEOs being Asians, a percentage smaller than their percentage of the total United States population.[105]

The bamboo ceiling is defined as a combination of individual, cultural, and organisational factors that impede Asian Americans' career progress inside organizations, since then, a variety of sectors (including nonprofits, universities, the government) have discussed the impact of the ceiling as it relates to Asians and the challenges they face. As described by Anne Fisher, the "bamboo ceiling" refers to the processes and barriers that serve to exclude Asians and American people of Asian descent from executive positions on the basis of subjective factors such as "lack of leadership potential" and "lack of communication skills" that cannot actually be explained by job performance or qualifications.[106] Articles regarding the subject have been published in Crains, Fortune magazine, and The Atlantic.[107]

Illegal immigration[edit]

See also: Deportation of Cambodians from the United States

In 2012, there were 1.3 million alien Asian Americans; and for those awaiting visas, there were lengthy backlogs with over 450 thousand Filipinos, over 325 thousand Indians, over 250 thousand Vietnamese, and over 225 thousand Chinese are awaiting visas.[108] As of 2009, Filipinos and Indians accounted for the highest number of alien immigrants for "Asian Americans" with an estimated illegal population of 270,000 and 200,000 respectively. Indian Americans are also the fastest growing alien immigrant group in the United States, an increase in illegal immigration of 125% since 2000.[109] This is followed by Koreans (200,000) and Chinese (120,000).[110]

Due to the stereotype of Asian Americans being successful as a group and having the lowest crime rates in the United States, illegal immigration is mostly focused on those from Mexico and Latin America while leaving out Asians.[111] Asians are the second largest racial/ethnic alien immigrant group in the U.S. behind Hispanics and Latinos.[112] While the majority of Asian immigrants to the United States immigrate legally,[113] up to 15% of Asian immigrants immigrate without legal documents.[114]

Race-based violence[edit]

See also: Yellow Peril, Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States, Anti-Filipino sentiment § United States, Anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States, and Anti-Pakistan sentiment § United_States

Asian Americans have been the target of violence based on their race and or ethnicity, this includes, but are not limited to, such events as the Rock Springs massacre,[115] Watsonville Riots,[116] Bellingham Riots in 1916 against South Asians,[117] attacks upon Japanese Americans following the attack on Pearl Harbor,[118] and Korean American businesses targeted during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.[119] Attacks on Chinese in the American frontier were common, this included the slaughter by Paiute Indians of forty to sixty Chinese miners in 1866 during the Snake War, and an attack on Chinese miners at Chinese Massacre Cove in 1887 by cowboys resulting in 31 deaths.[120] In the late 1980s, South Asians in New Jersey faced assault and other hate crimes by a group of Latinos known as the Dotbusters;[121] in the late 1990s, the lone death that occurred during the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting by a white supremacist was a Filipino postal worker.[122]

After the September 11 attacks, Sikh Americans were targeted, being the recipient of numerous hate crimes including murder.[123] Other Asian Americans have also been the victim of race-based violence in Brooklyn,[124] Philadelphia,[125] San Francisco,[126] and Bloomington, Indiana.[127] Furthermore, it has been reported that young Asian Americans are more likely to be a target of violence than their peers;[124][128] in 2017, racist graffiti and other property damage occurred to a community center in Stockton's Little Manila.[129] Racism and discrimination still persists against Asian Americans, occurring not only to recent immigrants but also towards well-educated and highly trained professionals.[130]

Recent waves of immigration of Asian Americans to largely African American neighborhoods have led to cases of severe racial tensions.[131] Acts of large-scale violence against Asian American students by their black classmates have been reported in multiple cities;[132] in October 2008, 30 black students chased and attacked 5 Asian students at South Philadelphia High School,[133] and a similar attack on Asian students occurred at the same school one year later, prompting a protest by Asian students in response.[134]

Asian-owned businesses have been a frequent target of tensions between black and Asian Americans. During the 1992 Los Angeles riots, more than 2000 Korean-owned businesses were looted or burned by groups of African Americans,[135] from 1990 to 1991, a high-profile, racially motivated boycott of an Asian-owned shop in Brooklyn was organized by a local black nationalist activist, eventually resulting in the owner being forced to sell his business.[136] Another racially motivated boycott against an Asian-owned business occurred in Dallas in 2012, after an Asian American clerk fatally shot an African American who had robbed his store,[137] during the Ferguson unrest in 2014, Asian-owned businesses were looted,[138] and Asian-owned stores were looted during the 2015 Baltimore protests while African-American owned stores were bypassed.[139] Violence against Asian Americans continue to occur based on their race,[140] with one source asserting that Asian Americans are the fastest growing targets of hate crimes and violence.[141]

Racial stereotypes[edit]

Main articles: Stereotypes of East Asians in the United States and Stereotypes of South Asians
See also: Ching chong

Until the late 20th century, the term "Asian American" was adopted mostly by activists, while the average person of Asian ancestries identified with their specific ethnicity,[142] the murder of Vincent Chin in 1982 was a pivotal civil rights case, and it marked the emergence of Asian Americans as a distinct group in United States.[142][143]

Stereotypes of Asians have been largely collectively internalized by society and these stereotypes have mainly negative repercussions for Asian Americans and Asian immigrants in daily interactions, current events, and governmental legislation; in many instances, media portrayals of East Asians often reflect a dominant Americentric perception rather than realistic and authentic depictions of true cultures, customs and behaviors.[144] Asians have experienced discrimination and have been victims of hate crimes related to their ethnic stereotypes.[145]

Study has indicated that most non-Asian Americans do not generally differentiate between Asian Americans of different ethnicities.[146] Stereotypes of Chinese Americans and Asian Americans are nearly identical.[147] A 2002 survey of Americans' attitudes toward Asian Americans and Chinese Americans indicated that 24% of the respondents disapprove of intermarriage with an Asian American, second only to African Americans; 23% would be uncomfortable supporting an Asian American presidential candidate, compared to 15% for an African American, 14% for a woman and 11% for a Jew; 17% would be upset if a substantial number of Asian Americans moved into their neighborhood; 25% had somewhat or very negative attitude toward Chinese Americans in general.[148] The study did find several positive perceptions of Chinese Americans: strong family values (91%); honesty as business people (77%); high value on education (67%).[147]

There is a widespread perception that Asian Americans are not "American" but are instead "perpetual foreigners".[148][149][150] Asian Americans often report being asked the question, "Where are you really from?" by other Americans, regardless of how long they or their ancestors have lived in United States and been a part of its society.[151] Many Asian Americans are themselves not immigrants but rather born in the United States. Many East Asian Americans are asked if they are Chinese or Japanese, an assumption based on major groups of past immigrants.[149][152]

Model minority[edit]

Main article: Model minority

Asian Americans are sometimes characterized as a model minority in the United States because many of their cultures encourage a strong work ethic, a respect for elders, a high degree of professional and academic success, a high valuation of family, education and religion.[153] Statistics such as high household income and low incarceration rate,[154] low rates of many diseases, and higher than average life expectancy are also discussed as positive aspects of Asian Americans.[155]

The implicit advice is that the other minorities should stop protesting and emulate the Asian American work ethic and devotion to higher education, some critics say the depiction replaces biological racism with cultural racism, and should be dropped.[156] According to the Washington Post, "the idea that Asian Americans are distinct among minority groups and immune to the challenges faced by other people of color is a particularly sensitive issue for the community, which has recently fought to reclaim its place in social justice conversations with movements like #ModelMinorityMutiny."[157]

The model minority concept can also affect Asians' public education.[158] By comparison with other minorities, Asians often achieve higher test scores and grades compared to other Americans.[159] Stereotyping Asian American as over-achievers can lead to harm if school officials or peers expect all to perform higher than average,[160] the very high educational attainments of Asian Americans has often been noted; in 1980, for example, 74% of Chinese Americans, 62% of Japanese Americans, and 55% of Korean Americans aged 20–21 were in college, compared to only a third of the whites. The disparity at postgraduate levels is even greater, and the differential is especially notable in fields making heavy use of mathematics. By 2000, a plurality of undergraduates at such elite public California schools as UC Berkeley and UCLA, which are obligated by law to not consider race as a factor in admission, were Asian American. The pattern is rooted in the pre-World War II era. Native-born Chinese and Japanese Americans reached educational parity with majority whites in the early decades of the 20th century.[161]

The model minority concept can be emotionally damaging to some Asian Americans, particularly since they are expected to live up to those peers who fit the stereotype.[162] Studies have shown that some Asian Americans suffer from higher rates of stress, depression, mental illnesses, and suicides in comparison to other races,[163] indicating that the pressures to achieve and live up to the model minority image may take a mental and psychological toll on some Asian Americans.[164]

The "model minority" stereotype fails to distinguish between different ethnic groups with different histories. When divided up by ethnicity, it can be seen that the economic and academic successes supposedly enjoyed by Asian Americans are concentrated into a few ethnic groups. Cambodians, Hmong, and Laotians (and to a lesser extent, Vietnamese), all of whose relatively low achievement rates are possibly due to their refugee status, and that they are non-voluntary immigrants;[165] additionally, one in five Hmong and Bangladeshi people live in poverty.[69]

Social and economic disparities among Asian Americans[edit]

In 2015, Asian American earnings were found to exceed all other racial groups when all Asian ethnic groups are grouped as a whole.[166] Yet, a 2014 report from the Census Bureau reported that 12% of Asian Americans were living below the poverty line, while only 10.1% of non-Hispanic White Americans live below the poverty line.[167][168] A 2017 study of wealth inequality within Asian Americans found a greater gap between wealthy and non-wealthy Asian Americans compared to non-Hispanic white Americans.[169] Once country of birth and other demographic factors are taken into account, a portion of the sub-groups that make up Asian Americans are much more likely than non-Hispanic White Americans to live in poverty.[170][171][172][173]

There are major disparities that exist among Asian Americans when specific ethnic groups are examined, for example, in 2012, Asian Americans had the highest educational attainment level of any racial demographic in the country.[47] Yet, there are many sub groups of Asian Americans who suffer in terms of education with some sub groups showing a high rate of dropping out of school or lacking a college education.[172][173][174] This occurs in terms of household income as well, in 2008 Asian Americans had the highest median household income overall of any racial demographic.[175][176] There are Asian sub groups have average median incomes lower than both the U.S. average and non-Hispanic Whites.[172] In 2014, data released by the United States Census Bureau revealed that 5 Asian American ethnic groups are in the top 10 lowest earning ethnicities in terms of per capita income in all of the United States.[177]

The Asian American groups that have low educational attainment and high rates of poverty both in average individual and median income are Bhutanese Americans,[178][179] Bangladeshi Americans,[168][178][180] Cambodian Americans,[171][173] Burmese Americans,[172] Nepali Americans,[181] Hmong Americans,[168][173][178] and Laotian Americans.[173] This affects Vietnamese Americans as well, albeit to a lesser degree, as early 21st century immigration from Vietnam are not from refugee backgrounds,[182] these individual ethnicities experience social issues within their communities, some specific to their individual communities themselves. Issues such as suicide, crime, and mental illness.[183] Other issues experienced include deportation, and poor physical health.[184] Within the Bhutanese American community, it has been documented that there are issues of suicide greater than the world's average.[185] Cambodian Americans, some of whom immigrated as refugees, are subject to deportation.[186] Crime and gang violence are common social issues among Southeast Asian Americans of refugee backgrounds such as Cambodian, Laotian, Hmong, and Vietnamese Americans.[187]

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