Chinese and Indian immigrants who arrived before modern immigration laws (that really only allow high skill immigration for most of Asia), were discriminated against and their descendants are pretty poor due to being denied opportunities
Still amazing to me that most people think, in the debate of what affects success on a population scale, that either structural oppression, cultural selection, or genetic predisposition exist in a vacuum. All of these 3 play in.
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Anonymous11w
Same reason why Nigerian Americans are on average wealthier than average but black Americans (who are technically Nigerian Americans themselves) are not (but obviously more extreme because slavery)