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Historical racial and ethnic demographics of the United States - WikipediaI want to settle this question of when Asians arrived in the USA because I always hear black Americans say nonsense like, "Asians have been in the USA since the 1800s". This is easily verifiable as untrue. Thanks to @Wenzel Dashington for making me look further into this issue. Anyway, to the point, statistics imply Asians barely existed in the USA in 1970, let alone the 1800s:
If you look at the "Asian and Pacific Islander" US population in 1970, the total number was 1.5 million souls. And the vast majority of those people were Pacific Islanders. So there were very, very few Asians in the USA before the 1970s. The millions upon millions of Asians you see in the USA today only just arrived like a decade ago, maybe even less than that time.
As further supplementation that Asians like the Chinese basically all come from recent immigration around 1970 (I was not far off in saying Asians came about 25 years ago), the book Race, Ethnicity and Place by John W. Frazier agrees with me and the above statistics:
In 1960, Frazier below quotes that there were only 3000 Filipinos in all the United States. By 1974 there were 210,000 Filipinos in the United States. That's an exponential increase explainable only by massive immigration. The trend exists for Chinese people. Basically Asians like Filipino, Chinese people only started existing in the United States from the 1970s onward:
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