15 Facts About Taiwanese Americans

Taiwanese Americans are Americans who carry full or partial ancestry from Taiwan.

Notable Taiwanese Americans include Joy Burke, Elaine Chao, Steve Chen, Michael Chang, Yuan Chang, Jensen Huang, Justin Lin, Jeremy Lin, Lisa Su, Katherine Tai, Constance Wu, Michelle Wu, Andrew Yang, and Jerry Yang.

Taiwanese culture places a high value on education, and many Taiwanese Americans are very highly educated and hold advanced degrees from numerous prestigious universities around the United States.

Taiwanese Americans have the highest education attainment level in the United States, surpassing any other ethnic group in the country, according to U S Census Bureau data released in 2010.

Taiwanese Americans have one of the lowest poverty rates in the US, with a poverty rate of 9.

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Many Taiwanese Americans immigrants have not settled in the old Chinatowns because they do not speak Cantonese.

For example, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Taiwanese Americans emigrants were instrumental in the development of Monterey Park, California in Los Angeles - resulting in the moniker of "Little Taipei" - as well as Flushing, Queens, which generally reflected new investments and capital flowing from Taiwan into newer Taiwanese Americans enclaves instead of traditional Chinatowns.

Similarly, for the past 10 years, Taiwanese Americans have been immigrating to upscale neighborhoods in Los Angeles and Orange County such as Cerritos and Irvine respectively.

The Irvine Chinese School, which serves mostly the American-born children of Taiwanese Americans immigrants, is one of the largest Chinese-language schools in the Orange County area.

Taiwanese Americans-oriented strip malls and shopping complexes are typically complete with supermarkets and restaurants.

Taiwanese Americans have brought with them Taiwanese cuisine to the communities they have settled, which, possibly excluding bubble tea, is not generally well known or served outside these aforementioned Taiwanese immigrant enclaves.

Taiwanese Americans have gradually increased their political engagement in the public sphere of the U S in recent years.

Organizations geared towards Taiwanese Americans include the Formosan Association for Public Affairs, North America Taiwanese Professors Association (NATPA), Taiwanese American Citizens League (TACL), Taiwanese American Professionals (TAP) and Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association (ITASA).

Taiwanese Americans run several of North America's major Chinese-language newspapers, such as the World Journal based in Queens; and the Chicago Chinese News.

Pacific Journal is a weekly Taiwanese Americans-run newspaper that is geared more exclusively toward Taiwanese Americans readers.