Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...productive potentials of entire families and a way to absorb newly arrived members, who often become eligible for immigration after the pioneering one attains citizenship. The entrepreneurial impulse runs strongest among Koreans. Nearly one in eight Korean Americans is self-employed, by far the highest rate for any ethnic group. Says John Kim, a Korean-born New York lawyer: "One thing about Koreans is that they don't like to be dominated by anybody...
...that administrators, intent on curbing the decline in white enrollment, are actually causing an unfair reduction in admissions of Asian students. It is a claim that officials stoutly deny. While Asians seeking to buy or rent homes suffer far less hostility than in the past, the tendency of many ethnic communities to settle in clusters still bothers some whites. During the rapid influx of Chinese into California's Monterey Park, for example, bumper stickers appeared reading WILL THE LAST AMERICAN TO LEAVE MONTEREY PARK PLEASE BRING THE FLAG...
Underlying the tension is a difficult and sensitive question: Why have blacks failed to advance and achieve the way old and new ethnic groups have? As Social Scientist Michael Harrington writes, "Why don't 'they' act like 'we' did? This has long been the cry of well-meaning white Americans who simply can't understand why blacks don't repeat the classic immigrant experience...
...reality, American blacks were immigrants, internal immigrants. Sowell notes in his book Ethnic America that from 1940 to 1970 4 million blacks -- nearly one-fourth of all the 19th century European immigrants to the U.S. combined -- migrated from the rural South, the poorest area of the country, to the urban North. Many of today's urban blacks are only the second generation in the city, and their parents arrived at a time when the smokestack economy was spluttering...
Enclaves of foreign-born businessmen can be found in almost every major American city. Yet each area and ethnic group has its own particular style. Their one common characteristic is hard work. Young Jun Kwon, 37, a Korean- born greengrocer in New York City, is typical. His workday starts at 2 a.m. and ends at 8 p.m. By dawn, he has already selected and loaded about 3,000 lbs. of fresh produce into his 1982 Dodge pickup van and hauled it to his Brooklyn store. There Young joins his wife Ok Kyung, 31, and his brother Young...