The South Asian aspect is false. Desi Canadians tend to be blue collar. Chinese Canadians tend to be way more white collar than us.
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That doesn’t mesh well with the fact that the average Indo-Canadian family makes $90k, way above the national average.
> The weekly earnings of men in five other designated visible minority categories were not significantly different from those of White men, while the weekly earnings of South Asian men were 2% higher [0]
Also, [1]
[0] - https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/220126/dq220...
[1] - https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/210521/cg-b0...
Also, South Asian numbers tend to be slightly higher simply due to our community's bias towards living in cities with a strong community presence.
And coming from my lived experience as a Punjabi North American, our best and brightest ain't coming to Canada - it's a backup option. Go to Sector 17 in Chandigarh or the Jalandhar Bus Depot, and you'll see rows upon rows of IELTS coaching centers and immigration coaches that'll help you find a way to get fudged work documents or high school diplomas for 3-4 Lakh or help get you asylum documents. If you were good enough in Punjab to get into a medical program, accounting program, or engineering program you'd move to Delhi or Chandigarh to work. If you're some loser numbskull who failed high school or didn't get into a half decent college, you take the Kaneda route.
On a completely side note how does an Indian apply for asylum, feels like it would be very hard to prove hardship in India.
There was an ethnoreligious insurgency in Punjab back in the 1980s-90s [0] that also leaked into Canada with the Air India bombings, some journalist assasinations, and the future Premier (Govenor) of British Columbia getting beaten with an iron rod. There is still institutional knowledge about that in Canada, plus Police in India do still do forms of brutality, plus Gurdawaras and Sabhas still play a major role in elections in Canada - piss off the wrong Uncle and an entire Gurdawara may vote for the Conservative Party or the NDP or whoever for city elections, Provincial Parliament, or Parliament instead of you. Add to that if you "donate" to the right MLAs or Activist orgs in Punjab, you can get a referal that said person was an activist who was threatened by Militants or Landlords or Oppositions Parties or Police. A relative of mine did that in the early 2000s even though they had a decent white collar government job in Chandigarh (a very developed city in North India). Even if you get to Canada and your asylum is rejected, you can still sneak over the border and work in one of the various Indian restaurants. Lots of the cooks and servers in Punjabi owned restaurants did that here in California. We have our own social and community structures through Gurdawaras, Mandirs, Masjids, and Clans.