In the 1970 census, for instance, Chinese Americans ranked second only to Japanese Americans in terms of median family income (one tenth higher than that of Americans in general), and more than one fourth had a college education or higher, while the figure for Americans in general was only one tenth.
譬如，以一九七○年人口普查資料來看，華人家庭的中位收入僅次於日裔家庭，高於其他所有族群，比起一般美國人家庭，更是高了十分之一；受過大學以上教育的華裔美人超過四分之一，而全美的平均數不過百分之十。