@hawkeye10,
Hawkeye, that's because the Asians behave just like other immigrant groups--people immigrate for reasons, and a primary reason is to make a better life for themselves in a new country.
The blacks you are talking about may have lived here for generations, but they did not come here as immigrants, and that's not an insignificant factor. Part of the time they were here they were slaves, and, even after that period, they were in inadequate segregated schools, barred from many universities, denied employment opportunities, lived in sub-standard neighborhoods, and generally shoved to the bottom of the heap in our society. What little was left of the black family structure after slavery, the allegedly helpful welfare system helped to finish off by making the black male irrelevant to the support of the family. Black women became the heads of households, and were more successful than black men in obtaining employment and, later on, were more successful in going on to college and obtaining a degree. Those factors tend to work against creating viable marriages, and two parent families, because of the gender gap.
All black people in this country are not living in ghettos.Many blacks are now middle class because they were able to push through many of the obstacles and attain a higher level of education and better jobs. Many are in the professions and management. But well educated black people still do not earn as much as their white counterparts, and even the well educated African immigrants often earn less than their education warrants. There is still some very real discrimination going on.
Hawkeye, to compare those blacks still entrenched in a ghetto situation, to the behavior and background of recent Asian immigrants, or even African immigrants, is like comparing apples to doorknobs. There is no logical basis for the comparison, and you really can't draw meaningful inferences from the comparison.
The problem isn't that poorer blacks, as a group, don't want to work hard, or don't want to see their children get a good education, because they do often work hard, and they want to see their children have a good life. But the problems surrounding them, in their neighborhoods, are truly enormous. And the very high out-of-wedlock birth rate helps to perpetuate conditions of poverty, and the absence of actively involved fathers further compounds the problems. It isn't that these people don't see these problems, turning the situation around isn't as easy or as simple as it might seem. I wouldn't minimize the challenges these people face. Perhaps having our first African American president will help to inspire some positive change in these peoples' lives--giving people hope can be a powerful motivating force.
