The S. Asians and E. Asians and all other immigrant groups know how to get ahead in America, the land of opportunity.  Negroes still haven’t figured it out after 400 years.  These immigrant groups come here with a plan.  It’s like a military operation.  Phase I undoubtedly involves fiscal discipline:  pooling financial resources and financing a “deployment” (migration) to an impoverished American black neighborhood where an entrepreneurship is established.  This business is usually based on a cultural strength like an oriental cuisine (Chinese or Thai restaurant, etc.).  In military terms, this establishes a foothold in “enemy” territory.

Phase II involves more fiscal discipline.  Instead of squandering their money on extravagant nonsense, these Asian immigrants continue to pool their money and save it away.  They continue to live communally and on the cheap.  Phase III comes when they decide to move as a group out of the inner city and relocate in the suburbs where they continue to maintain that fiscal discipline by budgeting, pooling profits and investing in their inner city business.  This is generation 1 (GEN 1), the first wave.  There is eventually a “changing of the guard” where most of the workers and staff move up and out and expand to bigger and better things.