1. Good Morning, Vietnam!: An Evolving Asian America

2. Good Night, Japanese!: An Evolving Asian America

3. The Asian Wave of Immigration In 1997, 24% of foreign-born residents (6.1 million) were from Asia In 1997, 6 of every 10 Asian Americans were foreign-born

4. The Big Picture From Census 2000

5. Growth of Asian Americans 1970-2000

6. Asian Americans by Nationality-Census 2000

7. South Asian Americans

8. Southeast Asian Americans

9. East Asian Americans

10. Fastest Growing Asian Groups 1990 to 2000

11. Where We Live: Cities

12. Where Asian Americans Live

13. The West Coast Thing

14. Asian Boom: Growth Since 1990

15. Asians In South Dakota!

16. 1999 Median Income

17. Poor Asian Americans [1990 Census Data]

18. The Educated Asian In 2000, 1 of 7 AAs had an advanced degree One of every five PhDs in engineering awarded in 1998 went to an Asian American Asian Americans had the highest graduation rate— 65%--at Division I schools in 1997 AA women had the highest graduation rate for completing a bachelor’s program in six years: 68% AA men had the highest rate for all men: 62% The most popular bachelor level fields among AAs in 1997 were business, life sciences and engineering In Fall 1998, nearly two-thirds of all International students came from Asia

19. Assimilation/Ethnic ID Grid [by Harry Kitano/Roger Daniels] Cell A Cell C Cell D Cell B Ethnic Identity Assimilation low high low

20. The New Face of America: Hispanic By 2005, Hispanic Americans will become the largest ethnic minority, 13% of the U.S. population By 2050, one of every three Americans will be Hispanic

21. Where Did Chinese Americans Settle? (by Wayne Fong, 2001) Current DemograpicsIdentityCommunities of Higher Concentration 1 st /2 nd GenerationChinese American, Asian American Bay Area/N. CA, S. CA, PNW, NY, TX 2 nd /3 rd GenerationAsian AmericanAll major cities CantoneseChinese-DiasporaAll major cities in West, Midwest, NY, TX Taiwanese Bay Area, S. CA, East Coast cities MandarinChineseEast Coast, S. CA universities, major technology/medical centers Mainland-PRCChinese-PRCUniversity cities; Bay Area, East Coast SE AsiansSingaporeans, Malaysians, Overseas Chinese Major metropolitan cities

22. Most Highly Asian-populated States