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Originally Posted by iheartthed
I know this is not the main point but South Asians usually aren't poor when they come to the U.S., and that's why they are over-represented in elite professions. This is quite different from how many Jewish families came to the U.S.
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The German Jewish families that dominated early Jewish migration were pretty prosperous. Yeah, a lot of the later Eastern European migrants weren't, but they were upwardly mobile within a generation.