Indian Americans
Indian Americans are Americans with ancestry from India. They are a category of South Asian Americans, which are a category of Asian Americans. Indian Americans have a median household income of $120,000, higher than any other group of Americans.[7]
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 Percent of population with Indian ancestry in 2010 | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 3,852,293[1] 1.2% of the total U.S. population (2018) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
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| Languages | |
| Religion | |
| 53% Hindu 18.6% Christian 8% Muslim 10% Unaffiliated 5% Sikh 2% Jain[5][6] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
Indian Americans are sometimes confused with American Indians, also known as Native Americans. American Indians are not actually connected to India.[8]
Indian Americans Media
Members of the Nansemond tribe, descendant of East Indian, Native American, and African American people, c. 1900, Smithsonian Institution.
The first Sikh Gurudwara was established in 1912 by the early immigrant Sikh farmers in Stockton, California.
Bhagat Singh Thind was twice denied citizenship as he was not deemed white.
Sanjay Gupta, Chief Medical Correspondent at CNN
Percent of population with Indian ancestry in 2010. New Jersey stands alone demographically, comprising a population over 4% Indian in 2020.
Census Bureau 2000, Asian Indians in the United States
Little India on 74th Street in Jackson Heights, Queens
The United States is host to the second largest Indian diaspora on the planet
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References
- ↑ "ACS Demographic and Housing Estimates". U.S. Census Bureau. December 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
- ↑ Terrazas, Aaron (2010-06-09). "Indian Immigrants in the United States". migrationpolicy.org. Retrieved 2016-11-09.
- ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-45902204 Archived December 13, 2019, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acs-22.pdf Archived February 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine see page 3
- ↑ "Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths". Pew Forum. 2012-07-19. Archived from the original on 2013-07-16. Retrieved 2014-08-11.
- ↑ "Pew Forum — Indian Americans' Religions". Projects.pewforum.org. July 18, 2012. Archived from the original on September 4, 2014. Retrieved August 11, 2014.
- ↑ "Explore Census Data". data.census.gov. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
- ↑ Koshy, Susan (1998). "Category Crisis: South Asian Americans and Questions of Race and Ethnicity". Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. 7 (3): 285–320. doi:10.1353/dsp.1998.0013. ISSN 1911-1568. S2CID 143516386.