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5/15 Grad student demograph-- grad student, 15% Asian, 51% White
undergrad student, 40% Asian, 30% White. What accounts for this?
http://opa.vcbf.berkeley.edu/IC/Campus.Stats/CampStats_F00/CS.F00.Table.F4.htm
http://opa.vcbf.berkeley.edu/IC/Campus.Stats/CampStats_F00/CS.F00.Table.F3.htm
\_ Undergrads: mostly from California; California is heavily Asian.
Grads: from all over the US (and the world); less Asian.
\_ I thought there are 10X more mainland Chinese and Indians
than the whites
\_ more important money make than degree earn.
\_ overall, of course, but not in American universities
(and I think 10x is too high a figure)
\-what would be interesting is to find a particular
dept where the ratios change a lot. might be
intersting to also consider household income of
ug vs. grad ... this might just be telling you there
are more wealthy white people --psb
\_ Most Asians went to join the dot-com swing.
\_ More drive to get a "good job" in Asian cultures than European ones.
More relatives questioning why you need a PhD in History than
getting a real job.
\_ you implying that Asians just want money?
\_ I saw a marked prefererence for careers perceived as
guaranteeing security among my asian and asian-american
colleagues at UC Berkeley, more often than not. There
were many exceptions but that was the trend. I noticed
this, in particular, among nikkei.
\_ Probably the primary reason. Financial security is
very important to the first generations who didn't
have it. Once that is reached, I'll bet the gen.
after that has a much more liberal education.
\_ Poor people often do.
\_ Asians make more money than whites in California.
\_ untrue, irrelevant
You are wrong _/
http://goldsea.com/Mediawatch/Moneymedia/moneymedia2.html
And very relavent to the idea that Asians are poor or not.
\_this article just rambles. it's junk.
\_ Look it up in the census data then. I am not going to
hold your hand for you.
\_ Look it up in the census data then. Do I have to do
*everything* for you?
\_ Yea but what about penis size...
\_ Little, yellow, different, better. |
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| goldsea.com/Mediawatch/Moneymedia/moneymedia2.html If Asian Americans formed our own state, it would have the fifth biggest economy. If we created our own nation, our GNP would rank 15th in the world. What makes us an even more important segment of American consumers is our above-average incomes, educational levels and spending habits. Census figures, the median Asian household income is about $49,000 a year, considerably higher than the $44,000 national median. Asians are 13% of California's population but 36% of the enrollment at the state's top ten universities. Asians outnumber Whites at UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Irvine, the three biggest campuses of the elite University of California system. Even at private universities like Stanford and USC, Asians make up a disproporationate 26% and 37%, respectively. The figures are almost as impressive at elite East Coast colleges like Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton and MIT where Asians average 15-30% of the student bodies. Our high educational levels translate into the high rate of economic success that Asian Americans have enjoyed. Despite complaints about the glass ceiling at upper levels of corporate management, Census figures show that young Asians are entering professional and managerial positions at over twice the national rate--46% versus 24%. This suggests that Asian income levels will take a big jump in the coming decade as substantial numbers of young American-educated Asians finally settle into their careers. Based on the numbers graduating from California universities, as of 2003 Asians make up 31% of the state's under-40 professional, managerial and entrepreneurial population. These raw numbers only begin to suggest the importance of Asian consumers for companies that sell homes, airline tickets, luxury cars, personal computers, high-end consumer electronics, educational products, designer-brand fashion, premium liquor and tobacco. Developers of new upper-middle-class housing in Orange County and the San Gabriel Valley often find that half or more of their homes are purchased by Asians. A 1997 survey of sales managers of BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo and Acura dealerships in both northern and southern California revealed that 15-85% of sales were to Asians, with an average of 40%. An eyeball survey of California streets and parking lots will verify that Asians are indeed behind the wheels of a disproportionate number of prestige cars, domestic and imported. As of the year 2003 Asians make up 31% of California's under-40 professional, managerial and entrepreneurial population. |