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64% of Vietnamese in Germany manage to join the most advanced of the three types of German secondary schools. That is 5 times more often than for Muslim immigrants and 20 percentage points higher than for Germans. nzz.ch/gesellschaft/v…
Vietnam is one of education's biggest outliers: It's basically the only low-income country that performs at the same level as rich countries on international academic tests. businessinsider.de/vietnams-stude…
United States' two largest refugee-origin groups, Cubans and the Vietnamese, have widely divergent economic outcomes. 56 percent of Cuban refugees had household incomes below twice the poverty level, versus 35 percent of Vietnamese refugees. reliefweb.int/sites/reliefwe…
Asian-American applicants are, on average, significantly stronger academically than all other racial groups. 58.6% of Asian-American applicants have academic ratings of 3+ or higher, compared with 44.7% of whites, 14.7% of Hispanics... …2i553a2t1s05i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/upl…
Japanese living in Germany have a crime rate that is only a fifth of the crime rate of native Germans. For comparison, Algerians are 115 times more likely to be crime suspects than Japanese. tichyseinblick.de/gastbeitrag/we…
Huge 24% Racial Income Gap: White Households Earned Only 76 Cents in 2016 for Every $1 Earned by Typical Asian Household census.gov/content/dam/Ce… (via @Mark_J_Perry)
Even though more Asian-Americans are below the poverty level than whites, Asians are largely underrepresented in the federal criminal justice system, as they make up 4.8% of the US population but only 1.5% of the federal prison population. worldatlas.com/articles/incar…
Asian immigrants have become the target of youth gangs in France because they are hard-working, quiet and successful
Obesity is lowest in Asia (ourworldindata.org/obesity) and Asians are the least obese demographic in NYC (nypost.com/2018/03/29/asi…). 
In the United States, Asian men are the highest earners: bls.gov/opub/ted/2017/…
Asian Americans are the most affluent and educated of any U.S. racial and ethnic group, and have the highest average household income at $110,523. Fifty-two percent of Asian-Americans have at least a bachelor’s degree. nextbigfuture.com/2018/09/asian-…
The wages of South Asian Americans are about 6% (men) or 15% (women) higher than those of white Americans, controlling for education, age, immigration status and region of residence:
Asians outperform everyone on all measures of academic performance. 60% of the kids scoring 750-800 on the SAT math are of asian background.
What if the Asian-white achievement gap were treated the same as the white-black gap? aei.org/publication/wh…
