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Originally Posted by Docere
Outside NYC, there doesn't seem to be much of a South Asian working class in the US at all. Canada's South Asian population is more Muslim and Sikh and more working class. In some ways it shares the same timing as US immigration but a socioeconomic profile more like the British South Asian population.
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Didn't Canada's South Asian share of the Asian population become larger relative to the East Asian share earlier than the US did though (due to British commonwealth ties and probably that the US had more ties with East Asia like Vietnamese refugees, war brides, Korean adoptees etc.)?
Both Canada and the US certainly had nearly all the major growth in South Asian immigration post 1970s and 80s, but the US had much more of the tech worker wave of post 90s and 2000s right? Canada, while low in number, still had refugee/working class South Asian waves of migration from the 80s and 90s (eg. Punjabi Sikhs fleeing communal violence in the Punjab, Sri Lankan Tamils fleeing war) that the US mostly lacked.