Why are Asian Americans Democrats?

[Indy Texas]

I'd point out that Asian-Americans (and Asians) do not have the contempt for civil service and the public sector that White Americans tend to. They're viewed in Asia as a necessary and valued part of society and to pursue a career as a "bureaucrat" is seen as honorable, or at least not something to be viewed with derision.

White people view post office employees and federal workers as lazy moochers who contribute nothing to society. Asians view them as providing a necessary, not always visible, service to society.

White people view "the private sector" as a vaunted, glorious expression of capitalism and freedom and innovation - starting a business and being an entrepreneur is seen as a wonderful thing. In a lot of Asian societies, being a business owner is considered somewhat mediocre. They associate it with the sort of person who runs a corner grocery shop because he wasn't smart enough to get into a good university and be accepted into the civil service or become a doctor or an engineer. Being a "professional" is the ultimate goal in Asian culture. Being a "businessman" is an almost crass thing.

And the Democratic Party is far more welcoming to the professional and civil servant classes than the Republican Party is.

[Indy Texas]

Same reason most racial minorities are Democrats: because they've been brainwashed by Dems that the GOP is racist.  Vietnamese-Americans are an exception to this, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are a number of Chinese-Americans, Korean-Americans, or Cambodian-Americans that are Republican.

The only reason, the only reason that Vietnamese-Americans support the Republicans in greater numbers is because they were considered more anti-Communist, same reason the Cuban-Americans support the Republicans. But now, like with most minorities, support for them is eroding among the Vietnamese because they see what party better represents their interests.

The old Vietnamese are still Republican. Obviously their grandchildren are not because the Vietnam War and the Cold War aren't relevant for people who weren't even alive during that era.