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Indians cross 3 million mark in US, 1.15 million have voting rights
WASHINGTON: They are caricatured through convenience store owner Apu in the cartoon series The Simpsons, celebrated for their victories in Spelling Bee contests and success in Silicon Valley entrepreneurship, and courted for their wealth given their status as the ethnic group with the highest per capita income in U.S. Sometimes they are also chastised for not being part of the American mainstream.
But Indian-Americans are getting there. A demographic snapshot of South Asians in the United States crunched out from the 2010 U.S Census by an NGO group shows the Indian-American population in the U.S (including multiple ethnicities) grew 68 per cent over the 2000-2010 decade from 1.9 million to 3.19 million. Counting single ethnicity (discounting mixed race), the population grew from 1.67 million to 2.84 million in the same period.
That made Indian-Americans the third largest Asian-American group in the U.S after Chinese-Americans (3.79 million) and Filipino-Americans (3.42 million), but with a much faster growth rate. People who identified themselves as Indian origin comprise the largest segment of the 3.4 million-strong ''South Asian Americans,'' a 1990s nomenclature engineered by the Washington mandarins.
Indians cross 3 million mark in US, 1 million have voting rights - The Times of India
Over 1.15 mn Indian-Americans eligible to vote in US
Now, Indians forms 1% of USA's population and by 2020 Indian will out grow Jews in the population of USA.
It will be good as we will able to mend American politics and policies in India's favor.
WASHINGTON: They are caricatured through convenience store owner Apu in the cartoon series The Simpsons, celebrated for their victories in Spelling Bee contests and success in Silicon Valley entrepreneurship, and courted for their wealth given their status as the ethnic group with the highest per capita income in U.S. Sometimes they are also chastised for not being part of the American mainstream.
But Indian-Americans are getting there. A demographic snapshot of South Asians in the United States crunched out from the 2010 U.S Census by an NGO group shows the Indian-American population in the U.S (including multiple ethnicities) grew 68 per cent over the 2000-2010 decade from 1.9 million to 3.19 million. Counting single ethnicity (discounting mixed race), the population grew from 1.67 million to 2.84 million in the same period.
That made Indian-Americans the third largest Asian-American group in the U.S after Chinese-Americans (3.79 million) and Filipino-Americans (3.42 million), but with a much faster growth rate. People who identified themselves as Indian origin comprise the largest segment of the 3.4 million-strong ''South Asian Americans,'' a 1990s nomenclature engineered by the Washington mandarins.
Indians cross 3 million mark in US, 1 million have voting rights - The Times of India
Over 1.15 mn Indian-Americans eligible to vote in US
Now, Indians forms 1% of USA's population and by 2020 Indian will out grow Jews in the population of USA.
It will be good as we will able to mend American politics and policies in India's favor.
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