Saying Asians are doing better in America coz they earn more fails to adjust for education and career sector. The Asians who come tend to be from better backgrounds such as being rich, coming to do a masters, working in STEM. So of course they earn more money than the average white high school drop from Mississippi. If you're some Asian who went to MIT and works in silicon valley, you don't compared yourself to that guy, you compare yourself to your white peers who most likely are gonna be your boss.
Its why I find it stupid when you see Jai Hinds boasting that Indians earn the most in Americans. The vast majority of them are in H1B white collar tech jobs in high costs of living areas. Of course they will outlearn Cletus from Alabama. And yet even with their high salaries, they are there to somehow undercut salaries of tech workers which have even higher salaries which shows how high they are. Also have you noticed despite how high Indians are in earnings. there are very few of them in America who are truly wealthy? At least Chinese have people like Jensen Huang or Eric Yuan and a lot more of them came from poorer backgrounds, not white collar work.
Btw did you know Filipinos are also like the second or third highest earning ethnicity in America? Guess they are some master race huh? It can't be due to heavily inflated nursing salaries.
Since we're on this topic about
exactly how much racism East Asians face in the US and their status I have this to say. For me, at least as of late, the 1st generations consist of people from all walks of life. You'll have Tsinghua educated types landing a prestigious FAANG job right out the gate, you'll have bumpkins who came through questionable means and have to scrape by delivering Temu packages in their personal minivans for Ontrac. The story plays out the same though that through hard work, rigorous parenting (for better or worse), and a value of education, second and third generations are able to be college graduates and enter the white collar field.
Stereotypes and discrimination plague East Asians in the work force, and yes there have been hate crimes against Asian Americans. But if we're talking the micro level for American born Asians, even if there are outliers it could be said most do live comfortably middle class lifestyles out of reach for that the vast majority of Americans. At least in my area many Asians are driving Teslas or some fancy German car, treat the Omakase restaurant scene as their own personal cafeteria, and work jobs with enough PTO to go on lavish European, Japanese, and Korean vacations 2-3 times a year. Living in high concentration Asian suburbs with low crime rates means too, many are insulated from some of the violence that usually take place in communities like Chinatown. It can be argued indeed, this is the reality most American born Asians live and made for themselves through hardwork.
However, there's another reality that they have to face and no amount of hard work will ever change,
is being a minority. Emphasis on no
amount of hardwork will ever change. I'm sure y'all are aware of all this bs about fighting for representation or what not. None of that matters! Jews in pre-Nazi Germany were not living in their own world like gypsies. To be blunt, they contributed far more to Germany than East Asians ever have to America. They were Nobel winners, gold medal Olympians, decorated war heroes, conductors, writers, etc. Simply put, no matter how good one has it, if you are a minority
you live by the good graces of the dominant ethnic group.
Perhaps compared to other dominant ethnic groups in history, White Americans have been relatively more merciful towards its minorities, including Asians. But mercy, like patience, always has an expiration date, don't ever forget that.
