Indian Americans facts for kids
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Percent of population with Indian ancestry in 2010
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| 3,852,293 1.2% of the total U.S. population (2018) |
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| 53% Hindu 18.6% Christian 8% Muslim 10% Unaffiliated 5% Sikh 2% Jain |
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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.
Indian Americans are sometimes confused with American Indians, also known as Native Americans. American Indians are not actually connected to India.
Images for kids
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The first Sikh Gurudwara was established in 1912 by the early immigrant Sikh farmers in Stockton, California.
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Bhagat Singh Thind was twice denied citizenship as he was not deemed white.
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Mohini Bhardwaj, 2004 Summer Olympics medalist in gymnastics
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India Square, in the heart of Bombay, Jersey City, New Jersey, US, home to the highest concentration of Asian Indians in the Western Hemisphere, is one of at least 24 Indian American enclaves characterized as a Little India which have emerged within the New York City Metropolitan Area, with the largest metropolitan Indian population outside Asia, as large-scale immigration from India continues into New York.
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Aerial view of exurban Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey housing tracts in 2010. Since then, significant new housing construction is rendering an increasingly affluent and suburban environment to Monroe Township, while maintaining the proximity to New York City sought by Indians in this township with the fastest-growing Indian population in the Western Hemisphere.
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The United States is host to the second largest Indian diaspora on the planet
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Manjul Bhargava, Professor of mathematics at Princeton University and Fields Medal winner.
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New York City's annual India Day Parade, the world's largest Indian Independence Day parade outside India, marches down Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The parade addresses controversial themes, including racism, sexism, corruption, and Bollywood.
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Nikki Haley and other Indian Americans participated in the Diwali celebrations at the White House, 2017
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Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014 "first contestant of Indian descent to win the Miss America Competition"
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Kiran Desai, winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize
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Kal Penn speaking at a rally for President Barack Obama at the University of Maryland's Nyumburu Cultural Center.
