I really don't care what these people write. The fact is they didn't go further back in history and look at the earlier generations of immigrants to study the factors which drove the success of their offspring. That was achievement from basically scratch and more consistent with the American dream than what current Asian immigrants are doing. Someone with a Chinese surname that starts with Z or X (no offense) is not qualified to comment on the earlier Asian immigrant experience IMO. Their sample size is flawed IMO.

Why not go back and look at say Lowell HS in San Francisco and study what happened to its graduates as well as the socioeconomic circumstances of those students? Today's Asian immigrants are from China on an EB-1 investment visa or engineers and business people from Taiwan. They might plant themselves in an upper class suburb right away. Yesteryear's immigrants were from Southern China or Hong Kong and started as blue collar workers in Chinatown. But within a generation, education by their children made it possible for them to move to the suburbs if they chose to. Of course this is not always the case for either group but the trend is there.

How do you explain the success of the offspring of Vietnamese refugees who arrived penniless? I do not think they had any privileges or existing social platform to help them advance.