n the 1970s and 2.5 million (46 percent and an absolute increase of 108 percent in a single decade) in the 1980s (Winnick 27; Lee 9). By 1995, there were approximately nine million Asia Americans in the United States who accounted for 3.3 percent of the population, a figure which is expected to grow at the rate of 250,000 or more per annum and constitute 8.2 percent of the population by 2050 (Rosenblatt A1). The largest groups of Asian Americans admitted after 1965 have been the Pilipinos (at a recent rate of 50,000
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