That may be true, but doesn't mean all Asian Americans are wealthy and/or there are no enclaves of poverty within that population. My point was referencing those who live in poverty. From the first paragraph of the link I shared:
"The Columbia [University] study revealed the startling news that nearly one-quarter (23 percent) of New York …
That may be true, but doesn't mean all Asian Americans are wealthy and/or there are no enclaves of poverty within that population. My point was referencing those who live in poverty. From the first paragraph of the link I shared:
"The Columbia [University] study revealed the startling news that nearly one-quarter (23 percent) of New York City’s Asian population was impoverished, a proportion exceeding that of the city’s black population (19 percent). This was surprising, given the widespread perception that Asians are among the nation’s more affluent social groups. But the study contains an even more startling aspect: in New York City, Asians’ relatively high poverty rate is accompanied by exceptionally low crime rates. This undercuts the common belief that poverty and crime go hand in hand."
"What gets fewer headlines though, is the fact that even prior to the pandemic, Asian New Yorkers have been living in poverty, and that poverty among Asian Americans is the fastest-growing in the city. In New York City, the number of Asians living in poverty grew by 44 percent in the last decade and a half, from 170,000 to more than 245,000. The poverty rates for Asian-American communities are 15 to 25% higher than the city average.
"So targeted violence and rapidly increasing poverty have become twin crises, threatening to push a community that has been historically invisible, and too often suffers its poverty in silence, even deeper into the shadows."
1. Where are they doing this, in poor Asian areas or mixed areas? Or are they effectively hiding in neighborhoods that aren't poor?
2. How much does it matter that society does not perceive your group as poor?
3. Are the Asian poor primarily descendants of the smaller group of families that have been here for generations or are they from the group that came after exclusion policies ended?
Those impoverished Asians ... do their houses look dilapidated and shabby? No, They're immaculate.
People of European ancestry rarely speak their ancestral language in the second generation. My grandfather came from Germany at age 12, spoke with an accent all his life, and I never heard him speak a word of German. I learned it in high school.
The Chinese who came to America from Toisan Province in the 1840s to work on the railroads still speak Toisan at home, nine generations later. Maybe they've shifted to Cantonese and/or Mandarin, but they still speak Chinese.
That may be true, but doesn't mean all Asian Americans are wealthy and/or there are no enclaves of poverty within that population. My point was referencing those who live in poverty. From the first paragraph of the link I shared:
"The Columbia [University] study revealed the startling news that nearly one-quarter (23 percent) of New York City’s Asian population was impoverished, a proportion exceeding that of the city’s black population (19 percent). This was surprising, given the widespread perception that Asians are among the nation’s more affluent social groups. But the study contains an even more startling aspect: in New York City, Asians’ relatively high poverty rate is accompanied by exceptionally low crime rates. This undercuts the common belief that poverty and crime go hand in hand."
It would be interesting to know if the Asian poor are as isolated as the black poor.
Good question. At least in NYC it seems they are; from the link below:
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"They don't want to step forward and admit, 'I'm in a situation where I need some need.' It's a cultural barrier," Kim said.
Advocates say part of the problem is that poverty in the community is often unseen.
"They are the hidden homeless," explained Chris Kui with Asian Americans for Equality.
"They are doubling up and tripling up, living in these cubicles that they share with 10 people within a one-bedroom apartment, for example."
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https://abc7news.com/our-america-asian-voices-sang-ki-chun-assemblymember-ron-kim-american-poverty-new-york/10578934/
There's also this:
"What gets fewer headlines though, is the fact that even prior to the pandemic, Asian New Yorkers have been living in poverty, and that poverty among Asian Americans is the fastest-growing in the city. In New York City, the number of Asians living in poverty grew by 44 percent in the last decade and a half, from 170,000 to more than 245,000. The poverty rates for Asian-American communities are 15 to 25% higher than the city average.
"So targeted violence and rapidly increasing poverty have become twin crises, threatening to push a community that has been historically invisible, and too often suffers its poverty in silence, even deeper into the shadows."
https://robinhoodnyc.medium.com/why-asian-american-poverty-doesnt-get-the-attention-it-needs-fea4dc245cef
That raises three questions:
1. Where are they doing this, in poor Asian areas or mixed areas? Or are they effectively hiding in neighborhoods that aren't poor?
2. How much does it matter that society does not perceive your group as poor?
3. Are the Asian poor primarily descendants of the smaller group of families that have been here for generations or are they from the group that came after exclusion policies ended?
Those impoverished Asians ... do their houses look dilapidated and shabby? No, They're immaculate.
People of European ancestry rarely speak their ancestral language in the second generation. My grandfather came from Germany at age 12, spoke with an accent all his life, and I never heard him speak a word of German. I learned it in high school.
The Chinese who came to America from Toisan Province in the 1840s to work on the railroads still speak Toisan at home, nine generations later. Maybe they've shifted to Cantonese and/or Mandarin, but they still speak Chinese.