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Re:America's top earners are Asian men by brownbat on Saturday July 02, 2016 @10:25AM (#12022658)
Interesting... subcontinent is definitely part of Asia, but I would have expected criticism the other direction, that "Asian" lumps together too many really distinct groups, not concern that it was not inclusive enough.

Hmong households have slightly lower median incomes than the total US population, for instance.[0]

[0] http://www.hndinc.org/cmsAdmin/uploads/dlc/HND-Census-Report...

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Re:America's top earners are Asian men by zo1 on Saturday July 02, 2016 @10:58AM (#12022778)
>"that "Asian" lumps together too many really distinct groups"

So does white/caucasian, and probably all the other race "colors" as well. I.e. They lump together many different geographically-isolated/defined peoples and cultures into one singular entity for simplicity. And then we're led to believe statistics that are somehow indicative of something regarding that "race".

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