Who Has The Highest Income In America

this video about every ethnicity's median household income is going viral right now and there is a hot debate about it but we are going to try to make sense of it all yeah let's play The Viral clip from Braden fulcrum an Idaho Home Loan mortgage broker here's the average median income inside of America by ethnic group honestly this was really interesting so I figured I'd do a video on it number 10 in the United States is African-Americans coming in with an average median income of $35,000 number nine is Hispanic Americans coming in with $43,000 and coming in at number eight are Nepali Americans coming in with $43,500 for reference the average single American is making $56,700 and coming in at number seven are Korean Americans coming in at $59,800 and number six are white Americans that come in at $59,900 and now for the top five number five is Pakistani Americans coming at $66,500 and at number four are Chinese Americans with $69,700 and number three are Japanese Americans with an average median income of $72,400 and number two is Taiwanese Americans coming in at $882,500 and leading in the number one spot pretty remarkably in my opinion are indian-americans coming at $100,500 as an average median income boom you know what's interesting about these videos Andrew these stats have been available on the web from a variety of websites in infographic form for quite some time but when a Idaho white guy makes it verbalizes it this is sort of what what humanizes it and allows it to get shared and go super viral well I think it hits a different Market when the messenger is looks differently uh versus just the infographic but yeah I mean listen I think the comment section is very interesting actually there's a funny debate I don't say that about every video but we're going to go into the comment section but we're also going to try to make sense of it all because I think there's some groups missing I do think that there's a lot of nuance to this this is just one stat but how do they measure it let's talk about it anyways please hit that like button check out other episodes of the hot hop boys if this interests you also check out smalla sauce it's very delicious drizzle it on everything it will make your food taste better first things first Andrew I had to go to the US Census Bureau to verify his information as you always should nowadays there's a lot of things faked on the internet exaggerated half truths um these are essentially Government Census numbers right right right yeah no essentially these are true I've seen these multiple times obviously um indian-americans their household income is extremely high uh obviously a lot of other Asian groups that are very specific Taiwanese Japanese Chinese Pakistani and then they he even listed Korean and nepes which is an you know I'm surprised that nepes is even listed because it's not that big of a group right so a lot of people were shocked especially um African-American Hispanic American and white American people because Asians only make up 6% of the US but the data on Asians is hypergranular and specific so a lot of people were like wait so why does a group that's only 6% get the hypers specific data and it's all parsed out but then like white black and Latino are just left as gigantic groups right right I think I think they're so gigantic it's hard to sparse them out because I think at least for Asians you can go by country of origin right so you have Sri Lankan you have uh uh uh Thai Americans but on this infog graphic it's really interesting if you look at this other one it said the average American white Americans so I don't know really what that means but anyways guys take stats with a grain of salt but let's talk about David what's your main point that you want people to know about this I will say this real quick too Asians recently came to America in large numbers and they haven't fully I guess some people would argue fully integrated into American mixed social society yet I think that that's why the stats on Asians are so granular right it's very homogeneous like the the you know chinatowns or like you know it's very we have ethnic enclaves yeah so anyway like I said I think there's a ton of nuance left out of this but also it's enough to make it go viral like you know how it's not specific enough to be too scientific but it wasn't too generalized where people couldn't get a picture of where he was going right um I will say this I do think some Asians for example Koreans Vietnamese he didn't even list on here but their numbers I think are somewhat low due to cash run businesses Koreans and Vietnamese run a ton of small businesses I actually thought Vietnamese should be on this list definitely like especially this longer one uh that just like from my own personal makes sense that viames would be I think you would really have to contextualize this with a lot of a lot of group macro data there is granular data even from like Latinos obviously he left Filipinos off the list that was Filipinos are high actually they're Filipinos actually have a pretty high income from what I've I've read multiple stats over multiple years Filipinos and indian-americans and Chinese and Taiwanese are up there yeah but I think that like we said earlier anytime there's a white looking guy Andrew who analyzes people who are not just only white it's going to go more viral right right so anyway um let's just go start at the list um obviously uh I guess they had they had African-Americans at number 10 right I think that it's been a very difficult situation for a lot of people to to break out of uh a the situation of slavery uhhuh and I think that that's set into motion a Perpetual cycle of things that are very difficult to break right but you know what was interesting is somebody was coming through in the comments section and saying that this is a median an average median because actually when you take a look at the average of black Americans income it's actually relatively much higher because there are a couple outliers such as people in media and sports that make like up to like 10 to 100 million a year right so we're talking about Andre Oprah Jordan LeBron Z Tyler Perry etc etc as well as other people in media such as Byron Allen or Bob Johnson who were black billionaires that are more like on the media buys and right but the median it kind of takes away the outliers like the bottom like percentage I don't know exactly what but it takes out like the top outliers too right right right right cuz that's how median versus mean average works right because average actually is not going to be as accurate to what the most common person this is like the most common African-Americans income that's what they're trying to say right I mean for example the richest uh guy that I personally play basketball with every week is a black Caribbean guy that I know so it certainly doesn't fit with this um but yeah I I think that maybe in the African-American Community right now it's a story of like highs and lows and I think that that's I see that yeah um Hispanic uh this Hispanic is interesting man because it's like you you you had all these small different Asian groups Taiwanese you separated Taiwanese from Chinese and then you just say Hispanic I'm like so is that Mexican Guatemalan is it Salvadoran is it is it what are these and not only that Andrew on the US Census they have non-white Hispanic right we had covered this earlier because a lot of people from Latin American countries particularly places like Argentina they're they could be like full German descent but from Argentina yeah they're white hispanic essentially is the easiest way to say so actually Andrew I do have granular data for this um for example uh Argentinian is up at 93,00 a month uh a year for household income so there's actually a pretty big variance um I would say yeah I mean it's just hyperv variant because if you look at Latin America there was a native population there but then there's been so much mixing with Europeans particularly from Spain Italy and Portugal over the years right so it gets kind of confusing um nepi was next up on the list why do you think he decided to include NEP which is a Himalayan group in there yeah yeah I I don't think NEP I think there's other groups that are around that same number uh I'm pretty sure like a lot of tha Vietnamese and are are also around those numbers but I don't know I guess it's interesting who knows why we'd have to ask this guy why he chose well what he like well you know in Idaho there's a lot of mountains and I know that the Himalayan people they live in the mountains yeah maybe there's a significant amount of nepales people in Idaho I don't think that's true but um next up was Korean so a lot of people were saying wait there's no way that Korean is this low right yeah so I saw some comments even from some Korean people we know that waiting were like hold up hold up man it's a lot because Koreans do cash businesses and it's like yeah it's not that low it's pretty same same one as white so I don't think like listen just be because Koreans have like aancy a cool brand and a K-pop it doesn't mean they all are wealthy but yes of course guys running a lot of cash businesses does allow you to declare your income possibly a little bit lower or if you're LLC you can uh your expenses can like your lunch if you discuss business counts against your expenses yes yes yes a lot of small business owners will not have the highest income true um moving on Andrew White American this is the largest group In America still to this day at one point it comprised 90% of the America's population how can it possibly be categorized as one large sum yeah I don't know I'm not I'm not surprised they're in this this this ranking though right I think that um it also does not take into account a lot of people who have inherited assets or uh have passed down stock assets that may allow them to stabilize their cash flow so I think well like if you inherit a big house that doesn't what is that but then you have a bad job you still live in a mansion right yeah and you are going to inherent that Mansion as an asset at I'm not saying all white people are like that by the way but right um also some people were saying how come there isn't granular stats for whites such as like German Americans Donald Trump is German German Trump uh Jewish American or something like that where obviously some people are guessing it' be way higher yeah possibly um but then you know like you said you were saying earlier Andrew there's a lot of like Appalachian whites and that's sort of what was being spoken about in that song rich men north of Richmond by uh the singer um next up he had Pakistani American then next up he had Chinese American um are you surprised the Chinese were here CH Chinese are a really big mix of blue collar cash businesses small businesses and corporate jobs I think that's how I would describe Chinese I would say Taiwanese and Indians lean more corporate but Chinese as a group whoever identifies as Chinese tons of restaurants right tons of cash only restaurants tons of shops tons of businesses but also a lot of degrees in engineering and corporate stuff there I I think that if you just walked on one street Andrew in New York City you might see somebody whose family is Chinese and a billionaire and somebody who is picking up cans to recycle for 5 cents each that is also Chinese yes I'm telling you it's crazy and you could can see it in New York um next up they got Japanese Americans at 72,000 I feel like most Japanese Americans fit into one of two camps Andrew they're either fifth generation from the old days you know Yamamoto farmers and they've been assimilated so I'm assuming they're just working like regular American jobs across the variants or they work for a Japanese corporation in America like a Toyota Honda or a Sony which is like has an American Division um Andrew we're getting into Taiwanese Americans and indian-americans here at the top a lot of people were talking about why are their stats on household income so far above on declared government income and like you said I think they have a hyper selective immigration process to the US but the ones that make it here Andrew typically I believe Taiwanese Americans and indian-americans both number one and number two in terms of grad school degrees yeah dude they're educated so the more educated you are probably the more corporate jobs you get which means that you will be declaring a higher income and typically when you have a grad school degree Andrew I would say you're probably trying to not only get a job at a Fortune 500 company but you're trying to move up yeah like you're trying to uh be calculated have a mentor have a mentor tree have a plan a 5year plan one year a lot of the American Born Chinese that started a lot of companies and founders of like apps and stuff a lot of them are Taiwanese something I noticed anyways David let's get on Indian are people wondering why Indian uh's rank so high as far as household income or are there logical reasons for this that's actually what most of the comment section was about yeah and and and by the way we know a lot of Indians are educated a lot of them are business owners uh but but I guess that when you think of America and you think of the richest people and and by the way it doesn't mean that they're all rich but just the people that have the highest household income Indian maybe doesn't always come to mind I don't know to people right they don't the common American wouldn't think of it so what is like what are some reasons why some reasons people are not thinking about that may be helping well I think the same things that have the indian-american median household income so high is the true for a lot of people um I think you have a selective population of some of the most educated most ambitious people from India coming over and um I heard that there's even like different distributions of immigrants that may be more Blue Collar from India going to the UK or Canada yeah yeah I mean look at these numbers guys I pulled this off of uh an indian-american Government website uh that was measuring this 43% are employed in managerial and professional Specialties 33% are employed in technical sales 23% work as operators Fabricators laborers Precision production workers guys also uh it is estimated that the divorce rate of the indian-american family is super super low anywhere from 1 to 15% compared to 44% for all other Americans now this is going to help the household income because if the family stays together that's more incomes counted in the household income so you have to understand one house also Filipinos on a lot of uh rankings rank that high and I think it's also because Filipinos a lot of them work corporate jobs but also have big families as well multigenerational households yeah a lot of people live together like you know what I'm saying so the bigger the more people that live together in a house the more incomes you're going to have and I think that that is one reason why the indianamerican because if you're going off medium household income how many people are in a house right but let's not ignore all the if you go to college if you go to your corporate job everybody there's always an Indian coworker just like there's always an Asian coworker of of like probably Chinese you know of some sort so anyway let's just get into the comment section uh this first comment said uh and I believe this from African-American guy certain groups aim for higher paying jobs but this still seems odd say what you want Asian cultures and upbringing are strict hard strict and hardworking if you notice the ones that are the higher income those are the ones that push family the most that was another comment right here not surprised a lot of us are model minorities with a side of anxiety and depression that's actually a really funny question this person was talking about the Indian ecosystem where they help each other out I believe this guy is referring almost to what is that the Motel 6 Empire Econo Empire of the patels right Patel well that's like that's kind of like The Stereotype and the joke yes yeah I believe he's also talking about some cast system thing which is people argue about it how real it is in terms of transferring to America or not um this guy just said you know for all you guys getting salty as to why indian-americans are at the top spot our families really push education very very hard and uh somebody said Indians are handpicked only the best of the best come to America otherwise if Indians were so smart then why is India where it is at and it would be a beautiful non- dirty place by the way not my words I'm just reading comments oh the comments section and why do you think people some people are coming through real proud and other people want to cut them down just off this you know what I mean like anytime you see a group that's doing well a lot of it's very human nature to want to kind of bring them down somehow and like make up excuses like I reasons are not excuses reasons are just like logical reasons that probably all get added up to mean something but what about the tone of how you would say those Reas there's definitely a lot of dude it's so crazy nowadays in the internet man it's like there's real legitimate things but people wrap it up in an emotional tone so then is it still valid you can't talk about anything without it getting racial oh man it's crazy somebody said as a server in the restaurant industry and by the way I'm just picking the comments that were literally in order I'm just picking the comments in order this is a funny comment as a server in the restaurant industry I've never been tipped more than 12% by an Indian just saying and then this guy came through and I gotta read Hey listen guys forgive me I gotta read an the accent they're from India somebody says because tipping doesn't exist in our culture and we try to save every money we can to build wealth for future Generations all right so I don't know what restaurant she works at but it's probably not a high-end restaurant it's probably like a regular restaurant like a right Applebees Applebees I can see a lot of people tipping 12% right you know so she says it's not part of our culture there was other couple comments from India saying this is not part of our culture it's BS and this white woman said well darling now you live in our culture spicy it's getting spicy and then she then somebody else came in and said Indians Don't force you to work that restaurant job don't blame it on other people that you can't get a better job yeah the Tipping whole tipping culture is really interesting we got to make a video about that one day um somebody said an average indian-american this is from Indian himself with 100K salary still considers thems poor and then this other guy came in and said when all your friends are earning 200k then it makes them feel poor it's all relative essentially to your reference group but you know Andrew your reference group often determines how you behave so if Indians are born into a system where their parents are telling them that 100K corporate job is not good enough then won't people just only look at the jobs that are above 100K yes and that will affect obviously what what they're aiming for right um somebody said of course why does everybody why is Asia get broken into separate ethnicities but then everybody else is like get to be one big group and it's because some people were saying in America nowadays the other groups are so hyper miixed with each other there's no way to even parse them out anymore um of course this one lady came in and said get rid of the H1B visas and it would change because Americans can get their Good IT jobs back basically protectionism ah um this is still a pretty Comm common comment you hear right but I I will also argue that on a geopolitical level Andrew what's keeping America strong is the h one be visas but then people are saying that you can work the workers too hard because they're so scared about losing their visa so they'll work extra hours you know what I mean without well it's kind of used as some leverage yeah I can see that um somebody just said what's the source I don't believe this this Vietnamese guy came in and said Vietnamese Americans are actually number one we just don't report our cash earnings from the nail salon that's funny I actually don't think they'd be number one but yes they would be on the list and hire yes for sure um somebody said so interesting it blows the whole White Privilege red break out of the water of course other people are coming in uh echoing something like this what does this mean for white I think this is an interesting question David because whites don't rank at the top does that mean white privilege doesn't exist Do You Believe In White Privilege what is White Privilege I would say that uh no this does if you believe in White Privilege this does not prove it wrong just because white people happen to rank lower because you could say oh well the Asians are working twice as hard but they're only getting 50% more right right it it really doesn't have to do with how many effort dollars you're pouring into it it's not it's it's not Equity equal results it's it's equal opportunities and equal return on investment uh I would describe it as like a financial currency Arbitrage exchange rate equal exchange rate you a basically the idea is that minorities have a lower exchange rate than whites not that whites and minorities will end up at the same place if the minority work harder they should you know beat them if they and it also depends on your reference group if your reference group is like uh in the mountain side or whatever of the Appalachians you're probably not going to do better than somebody who just arrived as an immigrant but I understand there's look listen there's generations of white people who have never been wealthy never had money and they're sitting there being like man you're going to tell me to my face I got white privilege it's like I never had money my family never had money my father was poor my grandfather was kind of poor working in a steel mill yeah no for sure I mean dude that's why all these like comment sections are so interesting um this guy said well if you actually took actual working or self-employed whites they would have 10x to average like basically pointing to the fact that like maybe white people don't pay themselves much or they have tax loopholes or something like that that may avoid them tracking their actual stats of course that is a uh there's true and it's not true it just depends on who you're talking to the last comment just said the US Visa system is incredibly competitive if you are Chinese and Indian basically you have these gigantic countries where so many people go to college so many people would die for a chance to come to America on a stem visa and work their ass off 60 hours a week so of course these people are going to have crazy stats exactly yeah I mean I do agree with that because guess what our parents would fit into that same designation Andrew ultimately what are your takeaways man I mean we could go on and on we're talking about his video got hundreds of thousands of views comments from all over the place there's real government stats but then of course everybody's reasoning especially like government doesn't really take stats on like culture or day-to-day thinking or whatever you know what I mean yeah yeah I just wish that uh you know you can see these stats but stats without this type of conversation that we're having now I think uh are so incomplete and you can people will draw so many conclusions and assumptions like oh Indians they're cheating or all they just oh Asians do this and then like I'm like there's so many other reasons uh for all these numbers but I guess a lot of people I don't know if they're having that conversation yeah I would agree I think people are kind of just like uh clearly based off the comment section like ah why saying at the top see see um I will say this and I I absolutely believe Baseline like your parents situation it matters a lot your family family situation your family stability the nuclear core um like I always say I know an adopted Chinese girl Andrew she has one adopted Chinese sister one white sister all three uh both her parents were lawyers and she was the only one who related to that like overachiever like Boba drinking nerd crowd at school and she ended up getting scholarships just like everybody else even though she was adopted because that was her crowd that she hung out with in high school but her full Chinese sister and her white sister didn't hang out with that group you know that's watching F right doing SAT prep together making like a a cool fun activity out of it right right right so I I really think it does have to do with like the culture that you like can get down with but yeah I do think there's other factors that play into that that you know are unfortunate you know what I mean that like it's just like these are good discussions to have though yeah anyways you guys uh let us know in the comments down below what you think about all this uh what are some other factors that may play into this median household income median not mean not average but median household income I think it's a multifactorial equation and you can either maintain what you're born with you can build on top of it you can Chuck it out the window now that there's YouTube Reddit variety of courses a variety of Messengers try to find the best messagers that can appeal to you share with other people you know share your knowledge man yeah man we're just here to break down these videos and try to make sense of it all because I think there's so many assumptions people are making so anyways guys let us know in the comments down below hit that like button and until next time we out peace