JapaneseAmericans. ChineseAmericans and PhilippineAmericans accounted for 0.5 percent877.934--of our population. With the changes in the immigration laws. the orientalAmerican population will continue to grow. In the Los Angeles area. the Filipino population. according to the New York Times. has "jumped from about 20.000 in 1965 to about 45.000." The same article states that: Today a majority of the Filipino immigrants are doctors. lawyers. engineers. teachers. nurses. and other professionally trained persons. Yet. the life that many of them accept here is one that most native Americans would shun. Lawyers work as file clerks. teachers as secretaries. dentists as aides. engineers as mechanics. and in some instances. as common laborers.
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