When was that?
after the koran war America received lots of korean refugees who were not rich
the same goes for the vietnamese boat people, some of whom may have been wealthy in vietnam, but could not take it with them to America
but most had ambition that black people in the ghetto often lack
After the Second World War, immigration policy in the United States began to undergo significant changes.
The funny thing is, until Adam Ruins Everything, we didn't even know this. That Dr. Wu from a university is an expert on this stuff and she was explaining how for a while America only let a lot of smart/rich asians in. Sure we let some Korean refuges in but we had a policy for a while and it was called the
This wave of reform eventually led to the
McCarran–Walter Act of 1952, which repealed the remnants of the "free white persons" restriction of the
Naturalization Act of 1790, permitting Asian and other non-white immigrants to become naturalized citizens. However, this Act retained the quota system that effectively banned nearly all immigration from Asia, except for small annual quotas. Its primary exception to the quota system was family reunification provisions for US citizens, which allowed both relatives of longstanding Asian American families and those who had married American soldiers during World War II and the Korean War (also known as "war brides") to immigrate. The McCarran–Walter Act also introduced some labor qualifications for the first time
After the enactment of the 1965 Immigration Act, Asian American demographics changed rapidly. This act replaced exclusionary immigration rules of the
1924 Immigration Act and its predecessors, which effectively excluded "undesirable" immigrants, including most Asians.
[41] The 1965 rules set across-the-board immigration quotas for each country.
According to an article from the Migration Policy Institute from 2021, 31% of American immigrants were born in Asia. As of 2019, according to the same article, there were 29 times as many Asian immigrants as there were in 1960 due to the passage of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act.[42] While Asian-Americans are often grouped together, different ethnicities face different struggles. For example, according to a 2009 study from ScienceDirect, more than 50% of Vietnamese immigrants in the twentieth century came to the US for reasons related to war or political persecution. Meanwhile, only 5% of Filipino immigrants and 16% of Chinese immigrants came to the US for those reasons. Filipino and Chinese immigrants are more likely to come to the US with an educated background than Vietnamese immigrants, and this gap has continued to widen.
Now you know. You're welcome.