Acculturation Of Asian Americans

According to the census of 1980 there were 3.5 million Asian Americans in the United States, about 1.5 percent of the total population. This was the first time in history that the Asian American population had amounted to as much as 1 percent of the total. Numerical incidence, however, does not necessarily indicate relative importance. The burden of this book, which treats systematically only the two pioneer Asian American groups, is that the immigration and acculturation of Asians has been much more significant in the history of the United States than their relative numbers would indicate. Examination of the unique experiences of Chinese and Japanese Americans gives a different and instructive perspective to more universal questions concerning