26 Facts About Indian Americans

The United States Census Bureau uses the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with Native Americans, who have historically been referred to as "Indians" and are known as "American Indians".

Indian Americans are the highest-earning ethnic-group in the United States.

Since the 1980s, Indian Americans have been categorized as "Asian Indian" by the United States Census Bureau.

Indian Americans are included in the census grouping of "South Asian Americans", which includes Bangladeshi Americans, Bhutanese Americans, Nepalese Americans, Pakistani Americans, and Sri Lankan Americans.

Indian Americans's race is listed as white, suggesting he was of British descent.

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The Ghadar Party, a group in California that campaigned for Indian Americans independence, facilitated illegal crossing of the Mexican border, using funds from this migration "as a means to bolster the party's finances".

Indian Americans was a lawyer and married to a white American, and he regained his citizenship in 1927.

Indian Americans was an author of many children's books and won the Newbery Medal in 1928 for his book Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon.

Indian Americans became a biochemist at Harvard University, and he "discovered the function of adenosine triphosphate as an energy source in cells, and developed methotrexate for the treatment of cancer.

From 1995 onward, the flow of Indian Americans immigration increased significantly, reaching a high of about 90, 000 immigrants in the year 2000.

Indian Americans have risen to become the richest ethnicity in America, with an average household income of $126, 891, almost twice the US average of $65, 316.

On January 20, 2021, Kamala Harris, an Indian Americans American, made history as the first female Vice President of the United States.

Indian Americans are the third largest Asian American ethnic group, following Chinese Americans and Filipino Americans.

Median household income for Indian Americans immigrants in 2019 was much higher than that of the overall foreign- and native-born populations.

In 2019, households headed by an Indian immigrant had a median income of $132, 000, compared to $64, 000 and $66, 000 for all immigrant and U S -born households, respectively.

In 2019, Indian immigrants were less likely to be in poverty than immigrants overall (14 percent) or the U S born (12 percent).

Communities of Hindus, Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, irreligious people, and smaller numbers of Jains, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, and Indian Americans Jews have established their religions in the United States.

The first religious center of an Indian Americans religion to be established in the US was a Sikh Gurudwara in Stockton, California in 1912.

Today, many Hindu temples, most of them built by Indian Americans, have emerged in different cities and towns in the United States.

American Muslims of Indian Americans origin are a vibrant community actively engaged in various social, political and economic activities taking place all over the country.

In previous decades, Indian Americans were variously classified as White American, the "Hindu race", and "other".

Indian Americans's clarified in the speech later that she was just joking, but still received some criticism for the statement later on for which she apologized again.

In December, 2015, over 30 Indian Americans students seeking admission in two US universities—Silicon Valley University and the Northwestern Polytechnic University—were denied entry by Customs and Border Protection and were deported to India.

However, many Indian Americans obtain Overseas Citizenship of India status, which allows them to live and work in India indefinitely.

In Long Island, the average family income of Indian Americans was roughly $273, 000, while in Fresno, the average family income of Indian Americans was only $24, 000, an eleven-fold difference.

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Indian Americans have played a significant role in promoting better India–United States relations, turning the cold attitude of American legislators to a positive perception of India in the post-Cold War era.