[thereare5lights]

What a weird thing for her to say given that Asian Americans use public transit in great numbers.

Then again, I've noticed that the ones with money are utterly alien to those of us that don't have it or grew up without it.

[bobthepanda]

Asian Americans lump together homeland countries of over half the world’s population.

The waves of immigration also look different demographically; the people who came over to build the railroads and staff laundromats, restaurants and nail salons are very different from the tech worker on H1B. (And the latter often look down on the former.)

[robertlagrant]

If you take the ethnicity out of this and stick to economics does it have the same outcome?

[throwawaywu]

You can't do that! Without keeping differing ethnicities at war with each other, how can we maintain power?