From the Deseret News National:
Lead researcher Jennifer Lee of the University of California, Irvine couches the question this way for Time magazine: "Who is more successful: a Mexican-American whose parents immigrated to the U.S. with less than an elementary school education, and who now works as a dental hygienist? Or a Chinese-American whose parents immigrated to the U.S. and earned Ph.D. degrees, and who now works as a doctor?"

For the full story, please visit http://national.deseretnews.com/article/1425/Why-Mexican-Americans-are-m....
 

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