Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month Fact
Asian Americans owned 1.5 million U.S. businesses in 2007, a 40.4 percent rise from 2002.
Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month Facts
Almost three-fifths of foreign-born Asians are naturalized U.S. citizens, meaning they are eligible to vote. Gerald Tsai of American Can was the first Asian American CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Of the total United States population, 18.2 million people, or 5.6 percent, reported they were Asian Americans in 2011. Nearly 3 million Americans speak Chinese, second to Spanish as […]
Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month Fact
There are at least 39 different Pacific Island languages spoken as a second language in the American home.
Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month Fact
According to the 2000 U.S. Census, there are 847,000 reported Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders, which account for 0.3% of the entire U.S. population.
Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month Fact
Eight out of 10 Pacific Islanders in the United States are native to the U.S.