Asian American Attitudes toward Wealth | Asian American Poll

AA ATTITUDE TOWARD WEALTH
(Updated Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:07:05 PM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

Assuming you are an Asian American, how important is wealth in your assessment of a person's attractiveness?
It's one of the most important. | 19%
It's just one of many factors. | 36%
It's less important than other qualities. | 29%
I don't care about a person's wealth. | 16%

Assuming you are an Asian American, which best matches your feelings toward your own wealth?
I'd give up weekends to double my income. | 20%
I'd work longer hours for 50% more income. | 39%
I'm happy with my current income. | 24%
I'd give up some income for more free time. | 17%

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...this is such a sad topic. I'm feeling sorta depressed in here because many of the attitudes I see here remind me of my oldest sister. She's just like that with her money, and that's why I haven't seen her in years. She's the woman with everything she wants, and yet, she's so unhappy because she's so suspicious of people around her. To her, I'm just one of her poor relations (she absolutely cringes when I show up at her door in my flip-flops and old jeans). She always thinks I'm there to borrow money from her (even though I've never needed to), not to see how she's doing and to reconnect with her. I think an over-abundance of money does it to you. I hope this phenomenon never happens to me should I one day win the lottery and become richer than I know what to do with myself.
MLK Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 21:08:14 (PDT)

I agree what whites and other people are guilty of conspicuous consumption, and buying cars, houses, clothes, only to impress others. However you mostly see this with the upper crust, the socialites in rich cities, where status is everything. I think the bigger portion of Americans don't care so much what other people think of them, what car they drive, where their son/daughter went to college. I guess I just don't understand why the status/face thing is such a HUGE part of asian society. Why care so much about what other people think of you and how much money you have?
M Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 13:31:37 (PDT)

"Oh come on, most AA's I see are totally money hungry, so important to have the status job, status house, status designer clothes, status car. Y'all just loooove to show off all that money. Ah the nouveau riche, completely without class."
M

Oh come now, there are no whites like that?

You mean to tell us that there are no whites willing to send their children to the most expensive prep schools and Ivies and pursue law and business--rather than medicine and engineering?

Come out to the North Shore of Chicago, then. I can show you all the bleach blonde white women who go about driving their Mercedes convertibles, attending boutique openings, wearing Burberry checks head to toe, clutching their matching Burberry handhag, and yapping on their cell phones like the little chilihuahua they carry around with them (yes, pure bred!). They too "just loooove to show off all that money."

Or come out to the exclusively white neighborhoods of Georgetown, Beverly Hills and Westchester. Again, the same bleach blonde hair, same plastic surgeon, same designer duds, maybe a very expensive Hermes bag and scarf instead of a "logo" one. Again, they too "just loooove to show off all that money."

The only reason why you see Asians in quest of status items is because this is what YOU are looking examining in particular so that you can confirm the prejudice of the cheap, status hungry Asian. Open your eyes a little more and see if whites and sometimes blacks are not also as guilty of conspicuous consumption!
Asian Dominatrix Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 12:42:12 (PDT)

No, I'm neither rich nor asian. But that doesn't make my opinions invalid.
M Tuesday, April 30, 2002 at 12:34:07 (PDT)

M,

That is the worst position to be critising rich Asians. You're not rich. Next you'll tell us you're not asian.

But yet you have so much to say on the subject.

DWG all the way.
AC Dropout Thursday, April 25, 2002 at 13:12:43 (PDT)

No, he said that "Old money" without money are bums, and that "new money" without money are businessmen. I fall into neither category so therefore I am not a bum.

I guess both old money and new money people are both annoying in their own way.
M Wednesday, April 24, 2002 at 09:20:18 (PDT)

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