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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New poster here

Here is the elephant in the room

Why do many Asian and African immigrants generally break the poverty cycle in one generation while other populations don't

It's not SES because most immigrants arrive at the bottom of the SES stack so they have to attend a "crappy" school with parents working crappy long jobs but somehow the students make it  [/quote]

Yes, it is SES.  The average African and Asian immigrant to the US is more likely to have a college degree than the average American.  This fact is easily viewed in the census data.  Some Asian immigrants may be working in jobs that don't use their skills, because they don't speak English, and it's hard to learn as an adult.  My college roommate's dad was a teacher in CHina, but ran a small grocery store in the US,because he couldn't speak English.  nevertheless, he could help my roommate and her sisters with math.  [/quote]

yep - middle class in their home countries.  They come with emotional and social capital that those stuck in generations of poverty, racism, and oppression don't have.  A better comparison is latino immigrants because many do come from lower, oppressed classes.  However, like the kids who got on the bus to travel 10 miles to a different h.s., you are dealing with the ones with enough know-how to get themselves out.  Plus there is so much poverty in these countries that it is economic deprivation without the social oppression because the majority not the minority  are oppressed - that has to make a difference in your sense of self.  Still, I imagine the hardworking, value education latino immigrant stereotype comes from the immigrants who had more in their home country than the poor poor ones.  Getting out of poverty is hard, nearly impossible.[/quote]

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