TERESA: NOW A STORY ONLY ON FOX
5, SOUTH ASIAN-AMERICANS ARE ONE
OF FASTEST GROWING ETHNIC GROUPS
IN U.S.
AS THE COMMUNITY ROOTS GROW
DEEPER TO SECOND AND THIRD
GENERATION, THE ACHIEVEMENT AND
CULTURAL BOUNDARIES ARE
EXPANDING.
STEVE: DAN BOWENS WITH A LOOK,
REDEFINING THE AMERICAN DREAM.
FOR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE,
AROUND THE NATION AND THE WORLD,
WE BRING THE GAP BETWEEN OUR TWO
IDENTITIES, I KNOW FOR A FACT
I'LL NEVER JUST BE AMERICAN.
AND I'LL NEVER JUST BE INDIAN.
REPORTER: REDEFINING AMERICAN
DREAM.
BY REMOVING LIMITATIONS ON JUST
WHAT IT CAN MEAN.
I THINK THAT WITH NEXT
GENERATION IS DOING THEY ARE,
PANGS THERE BASE -- EXPANDING
THAT BASE BEYOND A FEW
CATEGORIES.
REPORTER: EMBRACING THE AMERICAN
WAY.
WITHOUT FORGETTING WHERE YOU ARE
FROM.
I IMAGINE THERE IS A FINE
LINE BETWEEN THE CONCEPT OF
ASSIMILATION AND HANGING ON TO
THAT CULTURAL IDENTITY.
I STRUGGLE A LOT.
BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY
CULTURAL ASPECTS OF MYSELF AND
MY FAMILY AND MY YOU KNOW, MY
RELIGION.
REPORTER: A NEW GENERATIONAL
JOURNEY OF CULTURAL IDENTITY.
A LOT OF TIME TO RESET AND
REFLECT, WHO ARE WE?
WHY ARE WE'RE HERE?
WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO US?
REPORTER: STORY OF WHO SOUTH
ASIAN-AMERICANS ARE IS ROOTED
HERE.
WE'RE ALL FROM INDIA, YOU CAN
BE FROM.
ALL THESE COUNTRIES.
REPORTER: IT MEANS ACKNOWLEDGING
SINS OF S OF STEREOTYPES ON AMERICAN
SOIL, APU CHARACTER.
WE FACE THE SAME OR SIMILAR
PROBLEMS WITH RACIAL PROFILING.
REPORTER: ROBBY OF HOBOKEN IS
FIRST PERSON OF SIKH FAITH
ELECTED MAYOR IN NEW JERSEY, HIS
PARENTS IMMIGRATED FROM INDIA,
THE FAMILY ENCOUNTERING A
CULTURE SHOCK EARLY HIS DAD WAS
URGED TO REMOVE HIS TURBAN
BEFORE ATTENDING PENN STATE.
HE DECIDED NOT TO DO THAT.
HIS PUSH INTO POLITICS, AN
EXAMPLE OF SECOND GENERATION
SOUTH ASIAN-AMERICANS CHARTING A
NEW PATH.
AS IMMIGRANTS YOU COME HERE,
YOU STAY IN SAFER LANES.
WHAT IS THE FASTEST PATH TO
SECURITY STA ILLB I -- STABILITY.
PRESTIGE IN A WAY.
REPORTER: MONA PATEL, WHOSE
PARENTS IMMIGRATED FROM INDIA IS
A FORMER NASA INTERN.
MY GRANDMOTHER WOULD NEVER
HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO THINK
ABOUT THIS.
REPORTER: SHE DIDN'T PURSUE A
CAREER IN MEDICINE OR AEROSPACE
SCIENCE, SHE FOUNDED SEVERAL
COMPANIES INCLUDING A MARKETING
FIRM WITH CLIENTS LIKE NIKE IS
NOW A PLAY R P PLAYWRIGHT.
SHE WAS AN AVOID PUBLIC
SPEAKER, AND STRETCHING LIMITEDS
OF CULTURAL GENDER NORMS.
VERY STRONG WOMEN HAVE SHOWN
UP AND LIKE EQUALITY, AND EXPECT
IT, THERE IS DYNAMICS THERE THAT
ARE STILL WORKING THEMSELVES
OUT.
REPORTER: NOW NEARLY 5.4 BILLION
SOUTH ASIAN-AMERICANS LIVING IN
U.S., WENT THE GROUP PEOPLE FROM
INDIA HAVE A MEDIAN INCOME
$100,000 A YEAR.
WHICH IS ABOUT 20,000 MORE THAN
NATIONAL AVERAGE.
NOT MADG MAGICAL OR NOTHING ABOUT
GENETICALLY SUPERIOR.
REPORTER: SANJAY, A POLITICAL
SCIENCE PROFESSOR, HE POINTS TO
U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY OF 1960S
AS A REASON FOR ECONOMIC
SUCCESS.
TODAY.
WE REALLY.
PUT FOCUS ON BRINGING IN PEOPLE
WHO HAVE HIGH EDUCATION.
ONCE YOU INTEGRATE INTO MIDDLE
CLASS, UPPER MIDDLE CLASS
SEGMENT OF AMERICAN SOCIETY IT
EASIER FOR YOU TO OUR YOUR
CHILDREN TO ACTUALLY MOVE UP.
HELLO WELCOME.
REPORTYJJASMINE PODCASTCREATED IT AFTER GEORGE FLOYD
PROTEST, FINDING HER OPEN VOICE
ON RACE.
TO CHANGE THE RHETORIC,
NARRATIVE.
AS SECOND AND THIRD GENERATION,
SOUTH ASIAN-AMERICANS LIVING IN
U.S.
REPORTER: WHILE HANGING ON TO
HER ROOTS.
HER FAMILY CELEBRATINGER THE% YANL
PERSIAN NEW YEAR.
WITH HOLLYWOOD EMBRACING NEW
STARS IT IS CLEAR THERE ARE THE
BEGINNING OF CHANGE.
IT HAS TAKEN A LOT OF TIME
AND EXFORTH.
AEFFORT.
TRICIA, CEO AND COFOUNDER AT
BROWN GIRL MAGAZINE, A WEB SITE
DEVELOPING TO JUST ABOUT EVERY
ASPECT OF SOUTH ASIAN-AMERICAN
LIFE AT 31 YEARS OLD.
SHE KNOWS THIS JOURNEY IS FAR
FROM OVER.
AND I HAVE BEEN GRATEFUL
ENOUGH TO HAVE SEEN THE SOUTH
ASIAN COMMUNITY GROW FROM THE
SIDE LINES, AND WHAT IT HAS
TAKEN US.
REPORTER: QUEENS IS HOME TO
LARGEST POP LIKE OF SOUTH
ASIAN-AMERICANS IN THE CITY.
ALSO WHERE WE'VE SEEN PRO DRESS
FOR POLITICAL REPRESENTATION.
LAST YEAR TWO INDIAN-AMERICANS
WERE ELECTED TO NEW YORK STATE
ASSEMBLY, FIRST SOUTH ASIANS