I think it's a lazy statement in itself, often directed at us by Americans fearful of taking their paltry two weeks' vacation or Asians, infused – no matter what tabloids tell you - with the true immigrant ethos of unrelenting hard work.
Immigration and America go hand in hand and without each other, there can be no true immigrant nation.
They worked so much, he says, that he hardly saw them, but it paid off in true immigrant success story fashion: His older brother went to Harvard and Nguyen to Berkeley.
My parents raised me Russian in America, in the tried and true immigrant way, and I realized that to American eyes and ears, the belittlement, the thwacks on the head I endured would come across as injustices.
"Abs" was a loving, and beloved, son in true immigrant fashion, Joseph and Eve would have done anything for him, but in true first- generation American fashion, "Abs" had required nothing, and had accomplished all he had on scholarship: Harvard (bachelor's in electrical engineering), MIT SMM, electrical engineering), Stanford (PhD, electrical engineering).
11 This is particularly true among immigrants from Mandarin and Cantonese speaking communities (the largest immigrant minority groups living in the BC and Canada) 12 13 where smoking rates remains high.
Because it is also true that immigrants tend to settle in historically high immigration areas, and historical measures of immigration should not generally correlate with current economic shocks, this measure is used to correct for the type of selection which may hinder the ability to determine the effect of immigration independent of local area characteristics.
It is also true that immigrants, both poor and not poor, contribute to our economic engine, and that naturalized immigrants have lower poverty rates than even natural born citizens.
So is it true that immigrants are unusually entrepreneurial?
This is especially true for immigrants from repressive countries where the police were feared and hated.
