Describe the differences in what you see so far between the first wave Asian immigrants and the second wave Asian immigrants. Do the two groups deal with the same issues?
The immigrants who arrived in the US after 1965 were predominantly highly educated professionals from the upper classes. They came to the US to pursue educational or occupational opportunities: frequently as doctors or engineers. A second wave of immigrants came to the US in the wake of model minority. These immigrants were frequently relatives of their predecessors and were generally not professionally educated. They comrpise a "merchant class, operating restaurants, grocery and liquor stores, etc". The new immigrants saw the United States as a land of opportunity and possibilities. Many of the second wave immigrants left China because of the rebellions occurring in China. The Cultural Revolution of 1949 in China created an unstable government and political unrest.
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Most of the groups came to the US as middle class or business class and educated in the second wave, however, the Chinese did not necessarily follow this mold. Of the groups, they seemed to have the most difficulty assimilating into the American culture. Perhaps this was because they were pushed from their country, much as they were during the first wave with the rebellions, taxes and droughts.
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