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But look at some of the Asian immigrant communities who came to the USA dirt poor and worked the lowest tier jobs. Asians as a class now out-earn whites[0].

That they've managed this in the face of rampant anti-Asian discrimination in the US is all the more to their credit.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/233324/median-household-...

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Sure, look at the Hmong in the US. Poor and rural before they came to the US, and still, on average, pretty poor and doing pretty badly in the US.

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.

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