The thing with the US is because of the location, the only immigrants that can go there by physically crossing the borders would come from the south, like Mexico. I bet if America is anywhere near Africa or the Near East, it would have been swamped with immigrants just like Europe is now.
I mentioned the Vietnamese since they are probably the immigrant group that we can say might not be rich enough to go there on their own, many brought there as refugees after the fall of South Vietnam.
I think culture definitely really made a difference in their case. Many Vietnamese got here to the Philippines by boat (yup, they paddled across the South China Sea!). They were relocated to a site and so far they seem to have flourished. I don't see many here in Manila but I read somewhere that many have already become well-off enough to travel back to Vietnam.
I mentioned the Vietnamese since they are probably the immigrant group that we can say might not be rich enough to go there on their own, many brought there as refugees after the fall of South Vietnam.
I think culture definitely really made a difference in their case. Many Vietnamese got here to the Philippines by boat (yup, they paddled across the South China Sea!). They were relocated to a site and so far they seem to have flourished. I don't see many here in Manila but I read somewhere that many have already become well-off enough to travel back to Vietnam.
No doubt about the first part. If the United States was having a land connection with Africa, then millions would be trying to immigrate there every year. And as far as the Vietnamese are concerned, most of them arrived in the US many decades back. Now they are quite prosperous. One thing which needs to be remembered here is that a large part of the Vietnamese American population is Catholic. And this group seems to have higher education qualifications when compared to the rest.
Well the Vietnamese has certainly not been there as long as the blacks. Makes one wonder how they can still get ahead. This is the first time that I heard the Vietnamese-Americans are mostly Catholics though. I do remember that it was France that colonized Vietnam. Are you meaning to say that Vietnamese Catholics had higher education compared to other Vietnamese and that it was this group that was transplanted into America?
I think the higher education is not enough to explain their seemingly better success than blacks? You think being Catholic helped, like it allowed them to cope more easily to Western culture?
