Also, it'd be instructive, I think, to compare Korean immigrants to the US (who generally have high educational achievement, income, etc.) with Zainichi Koreans in Japan (who show poor scores on these metrics). Surely something more is going on than just ethnicity.
Do you have any data on this?
Most of my second and even first generation Asian friends' parents came to the US with no education and worked low pay service jobs. While they were working 10-12 hours a day, my friends excelled in school and their career.
> Asians accounted for 46 percent of the total college-educated immigrant population, followed by whites (28 percent) and Latinos (17 percent). In contrast, an overwhelming majority of native college-educated individuals were white (85 percent), while minorities, particularly Asians and Latinos, were underrepresented (see Figure 2).
> In 2014, the top three countries of origin for college-educated immigrants were India (14 percent), China (including Hong Kong, about 8 percent), and the Philippines (8 percent, see Figure 3). The top ten countries of birth accounted for 52 percent of all college-educated immigrants.
Given the greater difficulty it makes intuitive sense.
Hispanics are a huge and diverse group of people too. Yet they almost universally get lumped in together.
As do immigrant Nigerians, who are presumably included. All minorities aren't subject to the same levels of discrimination. This should be obvious given the historical context which drives much of the discrimination. I don't think it is a coincidence that the model minority stereotype was created at the height of the Civil Rights movement.
Really, immigrants and the direct children of immigrants tend to do well in the US as long as they are not part of a mass migration.
Keep in mind asians were barred from immigrating to the US for much of the 20th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924
The asian population in the US was effectively 0% ( less than 1% ) for most of the 20th century.
It wasn't until the 1970s that immigrants from asia started arriving.
Also, asians ( particularly asian women ) marry outside their race, so that stagnates the US asian population and hence limits the statistical analysis that can or will be done.
Maybe racism was a reason decades ago, but it isn't why asians aren't included in these stats. It's because there aren't that many asians in the US.
Edit: You will find asians in data where there are significant asian population - california/hawaii and college population. But generally, in overall US population stats, asians are left out because of their low population numbers.
21 million out of 350 million is a very insignificant number.
Also, that number is grouping chinese, japanese and koreans with indians, pakistanis and bangladeshis.
Do you think chinese and indians are the same race?