Asian American

Asian Americans (English: Asian Americans ) are citizens of the United States, who were born either in Asia or have Asian ancestry. The term " Asian Americans " was coined in the late 1960s by historian Yuji Ichioka, to thus better identify the members of a new radical political identity of Asian ethnic groups with similar history, experience and objectives.

In 2000, about 12 million so-called Asian Americans living in the United States. The largest group are the Chinese ( 2.4 million ), followed by Filipinos ( 1.9 million ) and the Indians ( Desi ) (1.6 million). The majority of them live in cities. Approximately 50 % of Asian Americans living in Hawaii and on the West Coast of America.

The past of dealing with the U.S. Asian Americans is charged in part: with the Chinese Exclusion Act all Chinese workers, immigration was prohibited in 1882. By the Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 de facto new Japanese migrant workers was made immigration impossible. Through the Immigration Act of 1917 ( also known as Barred Zone Act ), the other Asians were excluded from immigration. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II Japanese -born Americans and immigrants were mostly interned for years in camps.

Asians could only immigrate again to a greater extent after 1965, the racist Quotenssystem of the Immigration Act was repealed in 1924.

Distribution of the Asian population

Source: detecting the United States Census Bureau in 2000