NRIs face least
crime, have higher education and income than the national
average
Americans of Indian origin wealthiest; face
least crime
Mar 27 2009, 2137 hrs IST , Washington
Tags: UCLA, News By AFP
Asians-American tend to have higher education and income than
the national average, according to the latest statistical profile
by the Asian-American Studies Center at the University of California-Los
Angeles (UCLA).
The average Asian-American household earns 66,103 dollars a year,
against a national average of 50,233, it said. But there were major
differences within the community, with Americans of Indian origin
the wealthiest.
Asian-Americans suffer less from violent crime than other racial
groups in the United States, Justice Department figures have shown.
Some 11 out of 1,000 Asian-Americans aged 12 or older are the victims
of non-fatal violent crimes each year, compared with 24 out of every
1,000 non-Asian Americans, according to statistics released on Wednesday.
In 2006, 360 Asian-Americans were murdered. They were victims of
two percent of all US homicides, while accounting for about four
percent of the population, the study found.
In one of the more striking differences among racial groups, strangers
were responsible for most crime against Asian-Americans.
Seventy-seven percent of violent crimes against Asian-American
men were committed by strangers, compared with 59 percent for non-Asians.
Half of the crimes against Asian-American women were by people they
did not know, compared with 34 percent for other women.
The government study did not delve into analysis. It defined Asian-Americans
as those tracing their ethnicity to the Far East or the Indian subcontinent,
as well as Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
Some Asian-American leaders have cautioned against the "model
minority" image, noting that the community is diverse and some
of its members are struggling.
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