When were the Hmong among the South Asians that are profiled in laudatory tones in major glossies???
The educated American usually makes obvious typological distinctions between East Asians, Southeast Asians and South Asians [2]. The Hmong came as refugees, so they don’t even fit the pattern that Rubenstein points to when he characterizes South Asians, that they came as professionals in the 1960s and 1970s, with family reunification kicking in later. Look at the table that Rubenstein provides, and the “South Asian” ethnicities are pretty obvious (the ones Rubenstein must have been imagining when he speaks of professional first waves in the 1960s and 1970s), Indians, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis and Sri Lankans. When I calculated the poverty rate for these four groups, I got 10.6% (still 2% above native born whites, so Rubenstein could have played up that angle!) [3]. I’m sure VDARE readers are smart enough to focus on the long term trend, less individual capital influx per person, rather than the reality that the present isn’t quite that bad. No need to behave as if the numbers are more o
