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Originally Posted by wittynickname
Asian-Americans also generally have come to the US of their own free will, after coming from countries that are just as advanced economically as the US (admittedly Asian countries also have issues with mistreatment of those in poverty and other human rights issues, but those that have moved to the US generally are the fortunate, not the poverty-stricken). There's also the issue of many Asian women being brought into the US in shady environments, human trafficking and the like (nail salons are a hotbed for this in the US, there was an article written about it a few years ago, I'll have to see if I can find it), and those women aren't likely to be victims of systemic racism because they aren't viewed as a threat. They're keeping silent to keep themselves safe, so they aren't ever going to draw attention to themselves unnecessarily.
Black people, on the other hand, were brought here by force, treated as subhuman, as chattel. And even after the US finally decided slavery was bad, they used other ways to keep them down, systemically, in ways that still exist down to this day.
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Can I say The Orient? That separates the middle east and the indian subcontinent.
I think your 2nd part is correct but 1st part is incorrect. Most immigrants from the orient were part of the workforce (the coolies, god i'm using bad words) or escaped war (China and Japan WWII) or Communism (China, Vietnam, etcc..) It's only in the last 10 years or so that they have been the rich immigrants as Communist China is no longer that communist or that poor. The Filipinos are a somewhat new phenomenon cornering the workers visa market.
Many of them have been brought in through shady environments but have succeeded. The nail salon business is very lucrative.