[text id, apostrophes added, of circusfaery33 replying to one_4_the_money1’s comment:
How did Asians become the highest earners in America under white supremacy rule? How did they crack the code?This may be the most important thing that I ever say. Asian Americans did not ‘crack the code’ — it is that Asian Americans are white supremacy’s favorite cipher, where it comes to writing the fiction that white supremacy doesn’t exist.
Asian Americans do have the highest median household income by race in the United States. And we also have the highest wealth gap — with the highest-income Asian Americans earning approximately 11 times as much as the lowest-income Asian Americans.
Also, Asian Americans are not the highest earners in the United States. Those individuals are white people. The logic being exercised here would be as if I took Jeff Bezos’s household income, and the household income of an unhoused person, and used it to prove that the unhoused person has no problems because their median household income is 'billionaire’.
But the short answer to this is: the Asian ethnicities that earn the most in the United States correspond to the Asian ethnicities that receive the vast majority of H1B visas.
In case your next question was, 'if the United States engages in so much white supremacy, why does it provide so much opportunity to immigrants in the form of H1B visas?’
And it’s because employers can pay employees who receive H1B visas less [emphasized] than they would if they have to pay their non-immigrant counterparts. So it allows employers to gain access to highly skilled employees — and for the most part, immigrants who receive H1B visas are able to earn more in the United States than they may be able to earn in their countries of origin, even if they’re being paid less than their non-immigrant counterparts.
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Another reason why the United States does this is exactly to get people like you to ask this question. If Asian Americans seem to be doing well in the United States, that would indicate that white supremacy doesn’t exist.
The negative implication is if Black, Brown, Indigenous, and other people of color are not able to do as well as Asian Americans, 'the problem must not be white supremacy — the problem must be cultural to those demographics’. (transcriber note: this is the link to racism.)
However, if you look at Asian Americans who came to the United States not through high selectivity policies like H1B visas and student visas, it becomes apparent that they do struggle with lack of equitable access to resources, and for them, that has harmful outcomes very similar to the outcomes experienced by Black - Brown - Indigenous - and other people of color.
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for anyone who needs block-text help, there are several “not” statements to watch for.
from us: Some terms to define (like a study guide)
median
immigration quotas
model minority myth
'brain drain’ (pick a country)
exchange rate
remittances
refugees*
and the labor movement in general
(*personally we are most familiar with Hmong groups, there’s surely more but for sure the documentation exists)This is not a new thing in American history, or in the history of Asian countries, particularly their 'elite’ classes. Hundreds of years. Multiple countries and ethnic groups. (Multiple direct interventions from said United States.)
This is part of what needs unraveling. We beg anyone connected to the Asian diaspora to understand that Asian people are not only targeted by direct discrimination, they are also used as a political and social bludgeon to keep other marginalized people down.
(via afro-elf)
