Findings show Asian immigrant spousal caregivers do not expect high levels of care support from their adult children, as assumed in cultural arguments. Instead, structural influences, such as ethnic enclaves and resources therein, the couples' relative socioeconomic positions, access to institutional ...
The United States of America-the melting pot Did you ever wonder why the United States is called a melting pot? Do you know what it means to call this country a melting pot?ER This great land has been attracting people from all over the world since its independence from British rule in ...
In this post, we'll first address income by race. Then I'd like to talk about some factual and some personal reasons why Asian income is the highest in the United States. Race-related debates seem to be constant in America, yet Asians are largely left out of the conversation. Instead o...
For much of the 20th century, racist policies banned or severely restricted South Asian immigration to the U.S. When quotas were lifted in 1965, the new laws favored skilled professionals largely made up of people from India. These were the people who showed up in MASALA's initial demographic...
Aparna Bhattacharyya, the Executive Director of Raksha, spoke her thoughts about the situation. “We’re born here, we may not be as fearful of rocking the boat as compared to folks who come in as immigrants, who may not want to rock the boat,” she explained. ...
it did not go unnoticed. Carleton Putnam, George Lincoln Rockwell, and others traced the roots of Brown back to Boasian anthropology. It was but a step from there to the conclusion “maybe Hitler had a point.” After 1965, American racialism took an anti-Semitic turn. Call this the “ra...
However, these indicators did not necessa- rily align with the general public's view of which areas had the greatest problems. Similarly, Clark and Moonen (2013) observe the remarkable relevance of dealing with metropolitan "fuzzy" devolution. Clark and Moonen argue that "metropolitan politics are...
The 1937 act furthered these impositions to include civil wars but did award one special presidential concession: At the President's discretion, belligerent nations could acquire any nonmunition items with immediate payment and as long as they were not carried on American ships. [Pictured: ...
If you had to navigate the roundabout at Main Street and Auburn today you may have noticed strong winds had the huge U.S. flag flying at half-staff. READ MORE: One of America's Ugliest Cities is Just Across Border from Illinois But the reason all flags around the state have been lowere...
People who don't look like locals will be treated differently or in a special way. I'm a biracial (Eurasian) American, but I often got the "wow, your English is really good" comments and the "you're the coolest Asian guy I've met." And this is in America, the...