Asian-American Sociology

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According to the Algernon Austin, there are several main reasons of Asian-Americans lives in poverty even they have achieved higher education among other groups. First of all, many Asian-Americans do not have high school face difficulty to get high paid job. Second, they like to live in high standard living cities or states which are top three cities in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Last, the view of Asian-Americans in one group, it hard to provide the resources and services to specific low-income Asian-Americans.
Moving to views of Chao’s analysis reported that some Asian-Americans immigrated to the Americas via refugees or political and their situations are different that lead to not complete of education and income levels. In

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