Korean Americans
About this percentage of US-born Korean American women participate in the labor force.
What is 60 percent?
In this year, the United States initiated normal diplomatic relations with Vietnam.
What is 1995?
This process, where one immigrant sponsors several others who then sponsor more, describes how the Hmong population grew in places like Wausau.
What is chain immigration?
This financial system used by Korean Americans pools money and grants it to members on a rotating basis for business development.
What is a kye?
This derogatory term became associated with a syndrome describing the tendency to stereotype Asian people in the worst possible light.
What is the "gook syndrome"?
These divisions exist within Hmong communities nationwide, besides generational differences and dialect spoken.
What is military service (whether they are veterans)?
Between 1903 and 1910, approximately this many Korean immigrants came to the United States as the first wave.
What is 7,000?
Vietnamese Americans living abroad are known by this term when they return to visit Vietnam.
What are "Viet Kieu"?
These groups were responsible for initially inviting the first Hmong immigrants to Wausau, Wisconsin.
What are religious groups?
Korean American immigrants who came to the US when young and occupy a middle position between cultures are called this.
What is the "1.5 generation" (or "ilchomose")?
This term describes the social mobility experienced by many adult Southeast Asian immigrants who took jobs below their former occupational positions.
What is downward social mobility?
The second wave of Korean immigration took place during this period and brought approximately 14,000 immigrants.
What is during and after the Korean War (1951-1964)?
The United States accepted approximately this portion of the more than one million refugees who fled Indochina.
What is half (or 50%)?