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#1

Aslongaswe’reonthetopic

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/02/white-person-asian-person.html

Here’s an interesting piece of data: According to Pew, American newlywed couples composed of a white person and an Asian person, on average, have the highest annual incomes— more than all-white couples, all-Asian couples, white-black couples, or any other kind of mixed-race couple you can come up with.

#2

Frank are you paying attention?

#3

Did they try to input a control for gender of the asian person and white person?

I wonder if there is anything there…

#4

I suspect that this phenomenon is at least partly because a lot of white-asian couples meet in medical school, business school, law school…

Folks that don’t attend higher education are less likely to spend time socializing with people outside of their own community.

#5

I bet this has to do with the education. Mixed couples most likely meet in college, grad school, or a professional environment which requires college or graduate school degrees. So it would make sense for the Asian person who marries a non-Asian person to be already part of the higher educated subset.

#6

Pretty soon they are gonna have to openly discriminate against asians in American Universities. With a few billion asians all set on going to study in the US it’s inevitable.

I can’t wait to tell my grandkids about how when I was a young man, being white and protestant meant that you were privledged and had power.

“Really Grandpa? You mean Asians didn’t always run the world?”

#7

Welcome to 10 years ago, recent article details the developments over the past decade:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-02/harvard-targeted-in-u-s-asian-american-discrimination-probe.html