Indian Americans

Rare card · No. 36362

Indian Americans are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly from India. The terms Asian Indian and East Indian are used to avoid confusion with Native Americans in the United States, who are also referred to as "Indians" or "American Indians". With a population of more than 6 million (6,079,221) according to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, Indian Americans are the largest group of South Asian Americans, the largest Asian-alone group when excluding multiracial people, and the second-largest group of Asian Americans after Chinese Americans. The United States hosts the largest Indian diaspora by population, though not by percentage. The Indian American population started increasing after the 1980s, when U.S. migration policies started to attract highly skilled and educated Indian immigrants. Indian Americans have the highest median household income and the second highest per capita income (after Taiwanese Americans) among other ethnic groups working in the United States...

Read on Wikipedia · Image Lightandtruth, CC BY-SA 4.0