The New Asian Immigrants Ch.14

It was interesting to read about the different Asian groups and the differences between each group. Between 1952 and 1960 45,000 Japanese immigrated to the U.S. and it was quite shocking to me that 85.9% of that population were females. From this population, the majority of women married a non-asian man who was a current soldier or a former soldier. It brings me to think that many of these women wanted to either be able to stay in the U.S. by marrying a non-asian or they wanted to better their lives in the U.S. by getting married to someone who was a soldier. By 1965 the Immigration Act was passed and we would have thought that this would increase the population of Japanese coming to the U.S. But it did not increase, instead it decreased and the numbers show that at the beginning of previous years the numbers were high and then it slowly decreased. As I kept reading I was amazed to learn that Japanese American income was higher than most Americans. I came to the conclusion that it might have been because most Japanese did not come with kids to America or they did not have concerned about younger children or families.
Where as the Chinese population have been increasing every decade. Many of the Chinese came to the U.S. with their children and the majority of their population represents the kids that came along with them. So we see the difference: Japanese came ready alone and Chinese brought their families with them. Obviously it was much more difficult to be successful and get a good job because they also had to be watching out for their little ones and money had to go towards the kids or their education if they wanted to pursue higher education. In this chapter it also says that Chinese people who came to the U.S. were much younger in age compared to the Japanese. And according to data, Japanese had higher education than the Chinese did.