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... Asian Americans are Chi- nese , Filipinos , Japanese , Asian Indi- ans , Koreans , and Vietnamese . fIncludes Native American , Eskimo , and Aleut . Russian 2,800,000 1.0 % Welsh 1,928,000 0.7 % Slovak 1,785,000 0.6 % Source ...
... Asian Americans are Chi- nese , Filipinos , Japanese , Asian Indi- ans , Koreans , and Vietnamese . fIncludes Native American , Eskimo , and Aleut . Russian 2,800,000 1.0 % Welsh 1,928,000 0.7 % Slovak 1,785,000 0.6 % Source ...
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... Asian Americans Source : Statistical Abstract 2000 : Table 26 . Vietnamese 9 % Korean 11 % Asian Americans I have stressed in this chapter that our racial - ethnic categories are based more on social considerations than biological ones ...
... Asian Americans Source : Statistical Abstract 2000 : Table 26 . Vietnamese 9 % Korean 11 % Asian Americans I have stressed in this chapter that our racial - ethnic categories are based more on social considerations than biological ones ...
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... Americans is expected to have an Asian background , and one of every six a Latino background . Two basic causes underlie this funda- mental shift : immigration and birth rates . By far , immigration is the most impor- tant . That the ...
... Americans is expected to have an Asian background , and one of every six a Latino background . Two basic causes underlie this funda- mental shift : immigration and birth rates . By far , immigration is the most impor- tant . That the ...
Contents
The Sociological | 2 |
It Feeds My Soul 618 | 7 |
Origins of Sociology | 8 |
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