Some family-based immigrants may be highly educated or skilled, but the vast majority of admissions are made without regard for those criteria. The immigrant population reflects the system's lack of emphasis on skill. Nearly 31 percent of foreign-born residents over the age of 25 are without a high school diploma, compared to just 10 percent of native-born citizens. Immigrants trail natives in rates of college attendance, associate's degrees, and bachelor's degrees, but earn advanced degrees at a slightly higher rate (10.9 percent, compared to 10.4 percent for natives). Illegal immigrants are the least-educated group, with nearly 75 percent having at most a high school education.
With a degree from these types of colleges a graduate usually will make their way into upper echelon of the United States workforce. However, Asian Americans only hold less than two percent of top corporate jobs. The average income of an Asian American in the year of 2009 was approximately $68,780, which is the highest among all race groups. However, the poverty rate of Asians in 2009 was up to 12.5 percent from 10.6 percent in 2007. Researchers, supported by Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, Pfizer and Time Warner, conducted 2,952 surveys of working-aged men and women and gathered qualitative and quantitative data to conclude that many Asian-Americans, whether immigrant or native born, find it hard to "fit in" the upper management ranks.
A Wise Decision Robert, a Chinese immigrant, had moved to America five years ago, but getting accustomed to a new language had been difficult for him. Therefore, he could only work for Chinese companies. However, none of the companies offered decent pay because he could not speak English fluently, so his living conditions were only average. Robert lived in a small apartment that had one living room, one kitchen and only one restroom. Although it was indeed small, there was enough room for himself.
Base on the Chinese Law, Chinese government did not allow child labor in society. But there are a lot of children who are under 16 worked at factory without paid in bad working conditions. There are several reasons why number of child labor is increasing in China. First, there are a lot of poor families in China. They have the financial issue that parent don’t make
----------------------- I wrote this article keeping in mind that when people are interviewed they talk very normal without any fancy talk. + Pictured above: Yona just 2 months after she was freed from the Mauthausen camp Yona Wygocka Dickmann a holocaust survivor. Yona was the eldest of four children in a working-class Jewish family. The family lived in the Jewish section of pabianice. Yona’s father sold merchandise to polish stores.
Therefore, it is not surprising to find extremely very few women in senior positions in many Chinese firms and organizations. This evidences the male-oriented culture as a dominant feature in China. Sexual harassment is very rampant especially against junior female employee. However, most of these offences go unpunished because females usually fear losing their jobs since it would be extremely difficult to get another job. In addition, female executives travelling alone or in the company of male associates are rare in China.
THE CHINESE AND THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD My name is Chin Lin Sou. I was born in China in 1837. I came to California as a young man because I had heard you could make enough money in a few years to live very comfortable in my country for the rest of your life. When I got to California I found that the Chinese men were despised by most white men. They compared us to women because we were small and had long braided hair.
In China for example, the adults [ages 20-40 years old] are working to pay their bills, and have no time to care for their kids. And since most of them know this, they do not have kids, which is causing the population of kids to fall. And the population of the elderly is rising while it plummets. But if the government makes the lives of the working class easier, by reducing taxes [making it easier to pay bills], then they will have time to start a family. And if the government builds nursing homes that take care of the elderly when their family cannot, they will not have to worry about work
When Hawaiian plantations began to increase, there was a dyer need in labor force needed to be imported. In 1850, the first imported worker arrived from China but after their working contract was done most of them left back to china and some laws stopped the import of Chinese people. To maintain a workforce they adopted the Japanese, Koreans, Portuguese, and Filipinos to work on the plantations after them, the reason for many different foreign laborers was because how much people would leave after a
The 19th Amendment did not bring equality for women in any sense, other than the gain of suffrage. In addition, although the amendment did not limit suffrage to only white women, black women often were prevented from voting. Women continue to face sexism in the workforce and all other areas of life, with women continuing to earn only seventy-seven cents for every dollar earned by a man. Although, women now surpass men in terms of education, and still makeup only 5% of the CEOs of Fortune 500 countries. They are held back by traditional gender roles.