the ethnic balance of Asian America. According to Juanito Tamayo Lott, there are several levels of identity among Asian immigrants. Among those immigrants who are of a rural and poor background, a strong ethnic identity has not developed, let alone a racial identity like "Asian American." Many of these new immigrants, like refugees from Southeast Asia, have come primarily identifying with their family or clan, not their ethnicity or nation. As a result, they are especially resistant to Asian American identity. Other immigrants have come identifying most strongly with their region and language. This identification is more important to them than their ethnic identification. An example of this type of immigrant is a Filipino who first identifies himself as Tagalog, his language. Ethnic group identity existed across all socioeconomic groups, however, along with this came the desire to keep this identity and not become absorbed into a generalized Asian American identity. According
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