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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know why there’s so much talk of immigrants in this thread. Indian-Americans are the highest earning ethnic group for a reason: it’s really hard to immigrate here legally (not seek asylum, which is a small minority of immigrants anyway) unless you have a higher degree and some wealth already.

So of course the kids of immigrants here are going to tend to be better off. There’s a higher likelihood that they were born to intelligent, well-educated people than there is for an American born to an American by birth. Immigrants aren’t the population to consider when evaluating what the US offers to average person.

One thing I think this board forgets is that only a third of American adults have a college degree, and that’s a lot higher than it was thirty years ago. If you were born to Americans with a degree, you’re already well ahead of the average American.[/quote]

This is a good point. There are lots of immigrants in my field but very, very few of them come from poor backgrounds. They all have engineering degrees from well respected universities in their countries of origin. Some of those countries are full of poverty, but none of these folks were actually living in poverty there. And now they support their families here and can also send money back to family in their home country where that money will go very far because the cost of living is much lower there.

It's a complicated situation. In our office, most of the POC in management or in well-paid technical positions are immigrants. Whereas a lot of the lower-paid support roles are filled by POC born in the US. It's simplistic to say "Oh, the immigrants worked harder." That's simply not true. In many cases, the difference is that the American was born and grew up very poor in a rich country, and the immigrant was born and grew up pretty well off in a poor country. The immigrant's situation was advantageous from the start, even if the average citizen of their country of origin is worse off than the average American.[/quote]

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