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... The motives of Chinese immigrants are no different. ... Presently, in the United States, the Chinese population is approximately 2. ... Chinese immigrants who came after the 1970’s are diverse and historically different from other Chinese immigrants of the past. They are called “new” Chinese immigrants because many of them are highly educated and came with sufficient amounts of capital to start their own businesses. New York is the most popular city which attracts these new Chinese immigrants, and has been greatly influenced by them as well. ...
The 1965 Immigration Act ended discriminatory quotas favoring Europeans over Chinese and other non-European immigrant groups and consequently, a diverse population of Chinese was able to immigrate to the United States. It is described in the book Chinese, “this law specifically favored the entrance of skilled persons trained in science, technology, the arts, and other professions. ... In relation with the American population as a whole, Chinese-Americans, particularly these recent arrivals within the last 20 years, have a greater number of persons with college and graduate level degrees. ... 4% of all Chinese have doctorate degrees and nearly 4% of foreign-born Chinese-Americans have such degrees (Chinese American Data Center - Educaion). ... “University education is highly competitive in the homeland of the Chinese. There are only two major universities in Hong Kong, and they can admit only eight hundred students per year, from a population of five million” (Chinese 159).
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