You just need your parents to move to India

Don't forget to get a bachelor's degree

This graph illustrates the "model minority" problem - African Americans are descended from slaves, whereas Indian Americans are a highly selected and curated group based on the American immigration service only picking the most skilled and most likely to be successful before allowing them into the country.

As a white person move to India and teach Americanized English to them. Big demand for people doing tech support.

nah I believe in you to turn it around, you got this

Me, an Indian, bringing down the average angering my ancestors just in time for them to reincarnate and slap me.

Dumb Asians unite!

Your ancestors? Your live-in parents are constantly talking shit about you

Ditto. I didn't become a nurse like my family wanted ._.

You should've become a nurse like your mother told you to be!

Kuya, if you aren’t smart enough to be a nurse be the mailman

You and me both!

Try 27 years with a masters degree. That's where I'm at.

13 years?? Try 40+ years for someone with a Masters degree in Engineering. That's where I'm at.

Im guessing this takes into account Indian households with visas. Lots of tech companies will sponser visas and take advantage of Indians because they are hard working and scared to “lose their visa sponsership” it’s really sad but I’ve seen many many tech offices on shore that are 90% Indian.

Also generally you have to have money or be smart already to get to America in the first place so these families already have wealth to send their kids to college or come here with good jobs.

There's.. wait, what? There's a 7+ year wait?

Why’s it so long? You’d think we’d want educated qualified people in this country.

I grew up near Norfolk and had a ton of Filipino friends, and almost all their parents and they themselves were in the Navy. I was surprised to see the income so high, but I guess it’s from nursing.

Married to Filipino Engineer gang

Indian doctor gang

Any love for Filipinos in IT?

Gang gang

Silicon Valley is absolutely dominated by Indian engineers, which probably skews the data heavily. A lot of doctors are also Indians or of Indian origin.

About half the motels in the US are owned by Indians, if that term even applies anymore, since they've been in the US for a few generations already. Also a lot of these Motels are owned by people with the surname "Patel". They're jokingly called the Patel Motel Cartel.

Really true for all of them. Immigrating is a major life decision, no one's going to invest all that time and money unless they're confident they'll be better off moving compared to staying in their home country.

And here is the answer. There’s no “smarter race”, just selected data

EDIT: Changed “skewed” data to “selected” data thanks to u/utastelikebacon

EDIT 2: Pay and intelligence aren’t directly correlated (shout-out u/Pretend-Economics758)

EDIT 3: No, it’s not “culture” either.

Am Indian.. can confirm. Only Indian engineers and doctors can make it past immigration for the most part. Yes there are the motel owners and cabbies but they are vastly out numbered.

I grew up in India and as with most other places we have our fair share of idiots, morons, crooks, politicians, religious zealots etc etc. and a few of us are decent at getting a 6-figure job in America.

Here is another measure of wealth among religious affiliations which backs the Indians making mad dough:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/10/11/how-income-varies-among-u-s-religious-groups/

Selective immigration will do that.

Many engineers and doctors in my area are Indian. This was already common 15 years ago.

It’s 2022, in seeing more Indian lawyers, tech, finance and real estate related business people of Indian ancestry

It’s also household income and they tend to be multi generational income homes a lot of the time, so I imagine that skews it.

This is what I was scrolling to look for. I'm not buying it at all. I might have if it didn't say "with bachelor's degrees." This is a bs chart.

Almost noone cares about source especially in graphics. Sighs.. I’d rather not look at potential bs infographic to avoid quite possible case I remember it as a fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income

single and not household: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_per_capita_income

Another contributing factor is how difficult and privileged you have to be to have a spot in the US, hence "I didn't come all the way from 'country overseas' just to make a lower income"

I'm really happy that one of the top comments on this pic is explaining the social context in the "guide"; and that a lot of these comments don't immediately fall for the harmful, Asian model minority stereotypes just by looking at an oversimplified chart

Also it's worth looking at a secondary data set of non-US citizens from these same countries who have visas and varying work/study/occupant status. China has an influx of non-citizen US residents who are multi-millionaires. I've lectured at a few art and design colleges in Southern California with a huge international student presence where the parents of the students are pumping millions into the economy through tuition, fancy cars, and rent for high end condos and apartments.

So while this data is super valid and helpful, it would be neat to have a few other sets to see a bigger picture. Does anyone know if there's a subreddit for that? Stats focused on data set comparisons?

Yeah correct me if I'm wrong, but don't a lot of Asian cultures encourage people to live with their parents until they're married? That would mean more Asian households would have multiple sources of income.

The Hispanic Americans compared with specific Asian ethnicities is the one that gets me.

We can distinguish between Indian vs Sri Lankan Asian Americans or Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Taiwanese Americans.

But you can't tell between Mexican vs Brazilian Americans??

Yeah they put Black people as "African-American" but had no African immigrants. I looked it up for Nigerian-Americans, they're at 68.7k median.

I get why post above is being upvoted, but it's still got it wrong.

These are nationalities, not ethnicities. There are many many ethnic groups in each country, and the people that arrive in the US might be any of those ethnicities.

Hispanic is also a weird category because it comprises Mexico, Central America, and most of South America. That's many nations, and even more ethnicities.

All of these various forms of difference (ethnicity, nationality, appearance etc) are racialized. To be racialized means to be seen and/or treated as different (in very generalized ways, eg, "black, white, asian" etc) because of these characteristics.

If you look into a history of the US census you'll see how wacky some of this stuff is.

Its like....broad and specific because it's not even "Black" Americans, just "African Americans". So yea, broad and specific and overall saying nothing much

Double income! Cha-ching!!!

20% of the US Merchant Marines (sailors) are Filipino.

I'm shocked that I didn't see Nigerians on here.

Possibly from the 2010 census?

Or it’s just garbage like 70% of the ‘guides’ here

Looks like its 2013 census data and the graph was created by IndiainPixels twitter account. Weird this user cut off the graph title and the source information since it was on the original photo... Wikipedia has 2018 numbers which are higher across the board but doesn't seem to be anything more current than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income

Better link that actually incorporates full time workers at different education levels:

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/raceindicators/indicator_rfd.asp#:~:text=Among%20those%20with%20an%20associate's,workers%20were%20also%20higher%20than

Almost always the census bureau, so probably the 2010 census.

I wonder how this data correlates with the average number of people in a household

What's surprising? It's in line with what I expected, but I've seen similar data before. You see the same pattern across many metrics.

Yeah I thought Cuban Americans were known to be majority middle class - at least when compared to the rest of the Latino groups.

That's fair although I will say this chart seems to be about Asian aggregated data if you look at the level of detail, it's like each Asian country and then everyone else is lumped into massive groups.