Indian American

For an article on American Indians see Native Americans.

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An Indian American is an American by residence or citizenship who has ancestry originating in the Indian subregion of South Asia. Many Indian Americans were born in India and immigrated to the United States while many were born in the United States and have Indian ancestry.

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Indian - South Asia - United States

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Numbering around 1.6 million, Indian Americans account for about 0.6% of the total population of the United States. Indian Americans are the largest subgroup of South Asian Americans, and the third-largest subgroup of Asian Americans, after Chinese Americans and Filipino Americans. Many Indian Americans specialize in the fields of computers and medicine, while many others are engineers or other specialists.

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South Asian Americans - Asian Americans - Chinese Americans - Filipino Americans - Computers - Medicine - Engineers

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The U.S. Congress has passed a resolution (House Resolution 227) to honor the Indian American community and Indian Institutes of Technology graduates http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:hres00227.eh:. Many individuals, particularly those in the fields of medicine and technology, consider Indian Americans to be the epitome of the model minority. Indeed, according to the U.S. Census Indian Americans have the highest median income of any ethnic group in the U.S. ($60,093). In addition, Merrill Lynch recently revealed that there are nearly 200,000 Indian American millionaires. According to the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, there are close to 35,000 Indian American doctors.

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U.S. Congress - Indian Institutes of Technology - Technology - Model minority - U.S. Census - Merrill Lynch - Millionaires - Doctors

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