1. The war triggered the new attitudes toward the Asians. Also, the belated admission of Hawaii to statehood in 1959, as well as their perception of being a model immigrant compared to african american and latin immigrants.
2. Asian Americans are known to be model minorities because they have fewer children, are less likely to be unemployed, or in jail. They are also more likely to get a higher education than the average american.
3. ABC's refer to American born
Chinese and FOB's refer to fresh off the boat recent immigrants. The silent Chinese in Sf was SF's inner-city chinatown people who were not the model immigration that most people had seen with other chinese immigrants. The unemployment rate was double compared to citywide average, two-thirds of living qtrs were substandard, and tb rates were six times the national average.
4. The 3 increments of Filipino immigration were a group of students, farm workers, after 1965 educated people came that consists of upwardly mobile professionals and would-be entrepreneurs.
5. Filipinos dominate in the nursing and medical fields. They dominated this field because in the 1970's the fifty nursing schools in the Philippines graduated about 2,000 nurses annually. At least 20% migrated to the U.S. And provided instant employment. Many hospitals recruit nurses in the Philippines.
6. Four separate categories of Koreans came to the United States including, war brides married to servicemen, peace corp volunteers and other American citizens. Post war Korean immigrants were also included.
7. Indians and Koreans have in common is that they were both violent.
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