Talk:Korean American

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[edit] Religion

"More than 80% of Koreans living in America are Protestant or Roman Catholic. The other 30% are Buddhist and 2% non-religious or spiritualist-structuralist." Does anyone notice that 80%+ and 30% and 2% do not add up to 100%? In fact, it adds up to over 112%... If those are real stats, then i think "The other" should be removed because "The other" implies that the 30% are not part of the 80%. 112% > 100% 68.36.163.67 (talk) 22:41, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bias?

This page seems to have bias including the education part and "Koreans being role models for the American society". -dandan xD 10:49 22 November 2006 (AEST)

I've just removed the "Education" and "Bias" sections; such sections should certainly exist, but as written they were not only POV but had no encyclopedic value and seemed dangerously close to trolling. More work still to be done. Thanks, -- Visviva 23:56, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

one tenth of the korean-american population are NOT adoptees. that's ludicrous. i'm removing that statement. there is no data or reference to support that. in fact, there is an article here on wikipedia that refutes that statement.

the reference to support that 75% of the population attend church regularly is supported only by: "It is difficult to estimate an exact figure, however, 70%-75% would be an acceptable figure that have been used by some scholars in the field." this article comes from a church website and the text used in the article excludes "regularly".

[edit] "related groups" info removed from infobox

For dedicated editors of this page: The "Related Groups" info was removed from all {{Infobox Ethnic group}} infoboxes. Comments may be left here. Ling.Nut 23:00, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion of sources

The Huntington source is a magazine article, and it was used to support the fact that Christians outnumber Buddhists 10 to 1 among Korean Americans. A specific portion of the Kim book was also cited in the religion section, but someone deleted it for one reason or another. cab 00:55, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Income

Looking over the webpage of the U.S Census Bureau (the link is provided in this article) I see no reason to keep this part:

(Koreans) “…have higher than average incomes compared to other Asian groups, as well as American averages"

Considering that other Asian groups like the Taiwanese, Chinese (except Taiwanese), Filipino, Japanese and Asian Indians in the U.S, all have higher median household income, higher median family income and higher per capita income than Korean-Americans as well as taking into account the fact that the per capita income of Korean-Americans is below the national average, I find the above statement quite inaccurate. Again this is all from the U.S Census Bureau’s homepage and the link is provided in this article.

I suggest deleting said statement seeing as changing it to “have higher than average income compared to >some< other Asian groups” would be an irrelevant point since it really doesn’t say much.

--213.112.53.13 15:50, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of Asian Americans and other lists nominated for deletion

List of Asian Americans and a whole bunch of other lists have been nominated for deletion. If you have an opinion, please vote at the AfD.

Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2007 September 12 for all the lists that have been nominated for deletion. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 18:19, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hanja

couldn't the hanja also be "朝鮮系美國人", since the English word doesn't specify North or South. --Voidvector 01:15, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Both Korean WP and Chinese WP seem to confirm "韓國系美國人" in Hanja without also mentioning that they may be called "朝鮮系美國人" in Hanja. Of course this may just be because most Overseas Koreans were from South Korea. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 10:56, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] chronology

chronology of the history section is repetitive. I am deleting the latter half. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.27.158.254 (talk) 20:27, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures

We only have two people now. It would be better to have four if we have somewhat to put. Michelle Wie is famous, but does she really represent Korea? I recommend Sarah Chang. and maybe Hines Ward.<-not sure.. Carolinehjkim (talk) 09:12, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

We have free pictures of Sarah Chang (Image:Sarah_Chang_before_performing.jpg) which we could crop, but the free (GFDL or CC-BY-2.0 licensing) images of Hines Ward, which you can see on his article, or many more on Flickr [1], don't really show his face; he's in full gear in all the ones I saw. cab (talk) 09:47, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Socioeconomics section?

The part of the article called "Socioeconomics" seems to be based around racial stereotypes. A person is a human being before they are part of an ethnic group, of course they "hold diverse occupations", why wouldn't they? Contralya (talk) 22:41, 26 April 2008 (UTC)