Taiwanese Americans

Taiwanese Americans
Traditional Chinese: 臺灣裔美國人
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-Bí-jîn
Taiwan United States
Americans with Taiwanese ancestry by state
Total population
331,224 (2023)[a]
(by ancestry or ethnic origin only)
392,012 (2023)[2]
(born in Taiwan only)
Range: 195,000[3]900,595[4]
0.06%–0.3% of the U.S. population (2017)
Regions with significant populations
Los Angeles metropolitan area, New York City metropolitan area, San Francisco Bay Area, Greater Boston, Philadelphia metropolitan area, Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area, Seattle metropolitan area, Chicago metropolitan area, Greater Houston, Miami metropolitan area, Las Vegas Valley.
Languages
Taiwanese Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien, Formosan languages
Religion
Christianity, Taiwanese folk (Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism)
Related ethnic groups
Overseas Taiwanese, Chinese Americans[5]

Taiwanese Americans (Chinese: 臺灣裔美國人; pinyin: Táiwān yì měiguó rén; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-Bí-jîn) are an identity group in the United States consisting of Americans of Taiwanese ancestry, including American-born descendants of migrants from the Republic of China (Taiwan).[6] A 2008 survey by the Taiwanese government placed the Taiwanese American population at approximately 627,000.[7]

Taiwanese Americans are the highest-earning American ethnic group by per capita income and have the highest educational attainment of any ethnic group in the United States.[8] After World War II and the Chinese Civil War, immigrants from Taiwan first began to arrive in the United States, where Taiwanese immigration was shaped by the Hart-Celler Act (1965) and the Taiwan Relations Act (1979).[9] As of the 2010 U.S. Census, 49% of Taiwanese Americans lived in either California, New York, or Texas.[10]

Notable Taiwanese Americans include billionaire CEOs Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Lisa Su (AMD), and Morris Chang (TSMC); entrepreneurs Jerry Yang (co-founder of Yahoo), Steve Chen (co-founder of YouTube), Tony Hsieh (Zappos); politicians Michelle Wu, Andrew Yang, Lanhee Chen, and Elaine Chao; jurists Goodwin Liu, Florence Pan, and James Ho; HIV/AIDS researcher David Ho, chemist David R. Liu, and Nobel Prize laureates Samuel C. C. Ting and Yuan T. Lee. Taiwanese American celebrities include NBA basketball player Jeremy Lin, singer-songwriter Wang Leehom, and actress Constance Wu.

  1. ^ "US Census Data". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2024-09-21.
  2. ^ "PLACE OF BIRTH FOR THE FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES, Universe: Foreign-born population excluding population born at sea, 2023 American Community Survey Estimates".
  3. ^ "Taiwanese in U.S. insist their identity is not a 'political choice'— but must be a census option". NBC News. 25 September 2021. Archived from the original on 9 October 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  4. ^ "僑委會全球資訊網". Archived from the original on 2012-09-16.
  5. ^ Ng, Zhao & Park 2013, p. 1070.
  6. ^ Jones & Riggs 2014, p. 343; Gu 2006, p. 67.
  7. ^ Lee & Barkan 2013, p. 1334.
  8. ^ Rubenfeld & Chua 2014, p. 48; Gu 2018, p. 21.
  9. ^ Chen, Aspen (2021-06-15). ""Going to America": An overview on Taiwanese Migration to the US". Taiwan Research Hub. University of Nottingham. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
  10. ^ "ASIAN ALONE OR IN COMBINATION WITH ONE OR MORE OTHER RACES, AND WITH ONE OR MORE ASIAN CATEGORIES FOR SELECTED GROUPS". United States Census Bureau. United States Department of Commerce. 2011. Archived from the original on 12 February 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2011.


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