Do British Asians really contribute to 10% of the British economy?

Just shows that the productivity of British Asians is immense and if only the enthusiastic career/education-driven qualities encouraged so much by the elders was somehow incorporated into the English Culture, the UK would be so much better. Not that I'm complaining or anything.

I find this very hard to believe, most of the Asians I come across are staffing ethnic restaurants.

I find this very hard to believe, most of the Asians I come across are staffing ethnic restaurants.

I find this very hard to believe, most of the Asians I come across are staffing ethnic restaurants.

I find this very hard to believe, most of the Asians I come across are staffing ethnic restaurants.

I guarantee you all of the top universities (no - that does not include lancaster) have more than 2.5% asian student population.

I guarantee you all of the top universities (no - that does not include lancaster) have more than 2.5% asian student population.

I don't deny that Asians have a higher economic punch then the rest of the population but lets be serious - when we say Asian we really mean the Chinese here. There's nothing special about the "achievements" of Indians or Pakistanis relative to the rest of the population - it's always the Chinese - and they're as different from other Asians as Europeans are.

I would like to see the same statistic just for the Chinese, it would be interesting.

I still don't believe the headline statistic though, the original article doesn't state how they arrived at that figure and from previous experience I treat number crunching done by journalists with extreme caution.

Do you know how much they cost society though? Costs far outweigh the benefits.