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Where do you get your stats from?

I'm an Asian American immigrant.  The ones who came here in the 70's/80's, maybe even 90's were not well off in their home countries, at least not the large circle of Asians I knew. Certainly, my family wasn't.   That's why they came here.. to seek better opportunities, kind of like why most of the white people's ancestors came here way back when.[/quote]

DP. It depends on who, where, and when - as you say. Overall, Asian-Americans do better on measures of economic well-being and education than the American population as a whole, but that masks differences among subgroups.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/09/08/key-facts-about-asian-americans/[/quote]
I think that's the point.   People here live in a bubble. They see only the educated Asian immigrants. They don't see the many who aren't educated even in their home countries, yet when they come here, and struggle, they want their children to live a better life and they see education as the means to get there.

Certainly there are subgroups that aren't like this.. Hmong group is a perfect example. But, even that is slowly changing.[/quote]

...Hmong-Americans don't want their children to live a better life?[/quote]
They don't value education *as much* as other Asian subgroups.    As someone stated up thread, it's cultural.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/these-groups-of-asian-americans-rarely-attend-college-but-california-is-trying-to-change-that
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Among the 281,000 Hmong in the United States, 38 percent have less than a high school degree, about 25 percentage points lower than both the Asian-American and U.S. averages, according to the Center for American Progress. Just 14 percent have at least a bachelor’s degree, less than half the national average.[/quote][/quote]

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