Malaysian Americans

Rather than a single ethnic group, Malaysian Americans descend from a variety of ethnic groups that inhabit the Southeast Asian country of Malaysia, all of which speak different languages and profess different cultures and beliefs, including Malay, Chinese and Tamil, as Malaysian is primarily a national identification.

According to answers provided to an open-ended question included in the 2019 US Census, 38,227 people said that their ancestry or ethnic origin was Malaysian.

[6] Malaysians have been coming to New York City, the West Coast of the U.S., and Chicago since the 1970s for job and educational opportunities, partly because of political and economic tensions in Malaysia.

[13] In 2018, Jocelyn Yow, at the age of 23, became the first Malaysian American to be elected to public office in the United States.

After more than 30 years of its establishment, MISG has a sizeable number of members in almost each university in America which has Malaysian students.