Reply to Quince Orchard community meeting for Boundary Analysis

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Quince Orchard community meeting for Boundary Analysis"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

[b]Why do Asians make 30% more than whites[/b] when America put the Japanese in internment camps, wouldn’t even let Chinese people buy property after they were treated horribly in the 19th and early 20th Century? If it’s such a racist system why was it set up so that white people are doing so poorly compared to Asians? Sounds like a pretty poorly planned racist system.[/quote]

[i]Today, income inequality in the U.S. is greatest among Asians. From 1970 to 2016, the gap in the standard of living between Asians near the top and the bottom of the income ladder nearly doubled, and the distribution of income among Asians transformed from being one of the most equal to being the most unequal among America’s major racial and ethnic groups.

In this process, Asians displaced blacks as the most economically divided racial or ethnic group in the U.S., according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of government data. While Asians overall rank as the highest earning racial and ethnic group in the U.S., it is not a status shared by all Asians: From 1970 to 2016, the gains in income for lower-income Asians trailed well behind the gains for their counterparts in other groups.[/i]

https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/07/12/income-inequality-in-the-u-s-is-rising-most-rapidly-among-asians/
[/quote]
That was very interesting. As an Asian American who grew up lower income to uneducated parents, I think it's important for people to not lump all us Asians together, just like other groups. I do feel the lower income Asian Americans get lost in this discussion as they are a smaller group, but no more or less important than other groups.

[quote]Moreover, the gains for lower-income Asians lagged behind the gains for lower-income blacks (67%), whites (45%) and Hispanics (37%).[/quote][/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics