Discrimination Experiences Shape Most Asian Americans’ Lives
Most Asian adults in the U.S. have been treated as a foreigner or experienced incidents where people assume they are a “model minority.”
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Most Asian adults in the U.S. have been treated as a foreigner or experienced incidents where people assume they are a “model minority.”
Seven-in-ten Hispanic Americans say they’ve seen a doctor or other health care provider in the past year, compared with 82% among Americans overall.
Asian Americans have been the fastest-growing group of eligible voters in the United States over roughly the past two decades and since 2020.
About half of Asian adults who have heard of affirmative action (53%) say it is a good thing, 19% say it is a bad thing, and 27% say they don’t know whether it is good or bad. However, about three-quarters of all Asian adults (76%) say race or ethnicity should not factor into college admissions decisions.
U.S. Hispanics’ policy views do not always align with those of non-Latinos in the same party, recent surveys have found.
An estimated 36.2 million Hispanics are eligible to vote this year, up from 32.3 million in 2020.
Most Latino immigrants say they would come to the U.S. again.
The number of Black immigrants living in the country reached 4.6 million in 2019, up from roughly 800,000 in 1980.
About six-in-ten Asian American registered voters are Democrats or lean Democratic, but 51% of Vietnamese American voters tilt Republican.
97% of Asian Americans registered to vote say a candidate’s policy positions are more important than their race or ethnicity when deciding whom to vote for.
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