And you're asking because ?

While I generally disagree with zhenlai's quixotic mission to rid the English language of variants on "American," in this case.... yea, it's kinda accurate to say that these "Chinese Americans" are really just Americans that look Chinese.
They think just like any other American, their Chinese is often no better than other Americans who've studied the language, their patterns and prejudices are just like any other American's. (Granted, many of them still have family here and speak the language fluently, but even so.)

The main difference, really, is that they face more discrimination and prejudice from the mainland Chinese who look down on them (or at best consider them curiously strange).

zhenlai,unless you're a native American Indian shut up!you whiteys kicked the Native American Indians out and now you say you're a pure American? hyphentated Americans is what you have in the good 'ol USA!you're probably Jewish American hence your bitterness and anger.

IQ and the Wealth of Nations is a controversial 2002 book by Dr. Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, and Dr. Tatu Vanhanen, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.[1] The book argues that differences in national income (in the form of per capita gross domestic product) correlate with differences in the average national intelligence quotient (IQ). The authors interpret this correlation as showing that IQ is one important factor contributing to differences in national wealth and rates of economic growth, but that it is not the only determinant of these differences. The data, methodology, and conclusions have been criticized.[2] The 2006 book IQ and Global Inequality is a follow-up to IQ and the Wealth of Nations.

This is not science or fact, but just an author's opinion.

Mind you it’s not hard to find authors that believe Elvis is alive, Bigfoot lives in Shasta CA, or that all Beijing English teacher are writers/celebrities/junkies.

Yeah... right... we just line those Mex up and shoot 'em good. Yee Haw!!

Mensa IQ Levels

One way of comparing scores from different IQ tests is to convert them to a ranking, or percentile score, which tells you in which band you fit. A percentile score of 99% means that you are in the top 1%, a percentile score of 98% puts you in the top 2% and so on.

Briefly: their are many different tests to measure IQ. Their scores vary, 120 in one test is equivalent to 140 in another for instance. The relevant measurement is what percentile you achieve. 98th percentile qualifies you for MENSA.

Me 158 Cattells (supervised) 98+ percentile.

As previously mentioned IQ relates to problem solving and mental agility not wisdom, that alas comes with experience for which there is no substitute.

Chinese isn't a race, its a nationality.

There is no such thing as an American Born Chinese. There are only American Born Americans.

what do you mean there is no such a thing called Chinese American? There are Italian American, Irish American. But you are right, we are all american. Chinese American if you google the wikipedia.

Here is proper definition of chinese american. not including the american born in US, but like me, immigrant to US later on. Within this community, the term Chinese American is often broadly defined to include not only immigrants from mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau and their descendants but also immigrants and descendants of people from Taiwan[6] and overseas Chinese people who have immigrated to the United States from places as diverse as Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Mexico.

Only in New York or Boston those big cities people do discriminate each other by telling their origin, to call either irish or Italian descent. But in middle America, where the heart land is, most americans have been there generations.

So I don't agree Haoren said Chinese American all have the same view regarding Chinese, etc. every one is an individual in US.

So, in America, is there Chinese food?