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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The American Dream is over. America is no longer a meritocracy where through hard work you can pull yourself up by your bootstraps and make a future for you and your family.[/quote]
America has never been a meritocracy. If you were white, male, rich, you started off way ahead of others. [/quote]

Then how did Asian women end up ahead of white men in terms of income?  And Asian men are higher than that.

[b]The current working generation of Asians had fairly poor parents.[/b]

Is it possible that it's still a meritocracy (more or less) but you just don't have as much merit as you think?[/quote]
Pretty wrong. Many came from upper middle class or wealthy Chinese and Indian families.[/quote]

Affluent Asian immigrants is a very recent phenomenon.   The average age of the work force is about 42.  Most 42 year old Asians are immigrants And they grew up poor.

If you thought I was saying that ALL Asians grew up poor then I don't know what to say to that.  [/quote]

Do you have evidence for this or is it feeling? Last I knew Asian immigrants and there children are overall better educated and more affluent than the domestic population which makes sense base on our immigration system.[/quote]

Today that is true but it wasn't true 25 years ago.

Asians couldn't naturalize until the 1950's.  They couldn't immigrate in significant number until the late 60's.  Most Asians today are immigrants.

Aside from Indian h1b visa immigrants, most Asian immigrants were not affluent.  They become affluent, hence the comment about meritocracy.  And frankly most of the h1b visa Indians aren't rich when they get here but probably earn a decent income from day 1.  [/quote]

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