It’s easier to keep it if everyone around you has it too
> Plenty of poor athletes and musicians too who once had it.
Again, easier to lose it if those around you don’t have it. Then you help out, buy mom a house, pay for medical care. Pay for nephews school, cousin’s rehab, brother needs a loan, etc.
That they've managed this in the face of rampant anti-Asian discrimination in the US is all the more to their credit.
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Meanwhile, I have a lot of Chinese, Hongkongese, and Korean coworkers whose families are well-off enough that they don't need to work for a living, have relatives who don't work for a living, etc.
So yes, lots of first-generation immigrants in US come from serious money overseas, and the ones who don't have worse outcomes on average.