The Asian American assimilation paradox

Figures & data

Figure 1. Percent of Americans who say they are familiar with the following policies or events related to Asian Americans. Source: 2022 STAATUS Index.

Figure 2. Percent of First– and Second-Generation Asians and their Nonmigrant Counterparts to Graduate from College. Source: Van C. Tran, Jennifer Lee, and Tiffany J. Huang. ‘Revisiting the Asian Second-Generation Advantage.’ Ethnic and Racial Studies 42 (13) (2019): 2248–2269.

Table 1. Everyday Acts of Discrimination Experienced by Asian Americans by Gender

	Men	Women
People asking where you are from	54%	63%
People acting as if you don’t speak English	37%	44%
Receiving Poor service	25%	35%
Called names or insulted	33%	34%
Offensive physical gestures	29%	31%
Being told to go back to your country	31%	29%
People acting as if they were afraid of you	19%	17%
Spit on or coughed on	11%	11%
Property defaced with graffiti or vandalism	9%	8%

Source: American Experiences with Discrimination Survey 2022.

Figure 3. Percent of Americans who say the status of Asian Americans in the U.S. is more similar to people of colour or to White Americans. Source: 2022 STAATUS Index.

Figure 4. Percent of Americans who have been asked, Where are you from, assuming you’re not from the U.S. Source: 2021 American Experience with Discrimination Survey.

American Experiences with Discrimination Survey. 2022. AAPI Data | Momentive Poll. https://momentive.ai/en/blog/aapi-data-2022/.

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