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Originally Posted by smoothmoniker
Why do they never include Asians when they talk about a lack of minorities in health care, in higher education, in higher income brackets?
Oh right, because they're over represented in all of those categories. I wonder what the difference is.
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I was about to say ... a friend of mine was just here in NYC over the weekend at a conference at NYU Med school about asian americans and health care. Interesting that asians still are not considered a major category in demographic surveys, btw.
Yes, I know we are not major in terms of numbers/percentage of population, but some stuff from the conference said asians composed an astonishing proportion of those in health care. No longer a mystery that asians are quickly climbing into the higher ranks of the "elite" professions - but one major topics discussed at the conference, my friend said, was the dichotomy of asians in the U.S. Rich getting richer, poor getting poorer, etc. Some theorized, though, that asians were more likely to open low-cost clinics in their communities - which at first I would agree with, but there are clinics all over NYC geared at other minorities as well. This, however, is the city; I'm positive the problem is much more exaggerated in the suburbs or rural areas.