The study examines the adaptation patterns and race relations of second generation Indian American and Korean American professionals. The study finds that both groups maintain a significant amount of their ethnic cultures and consider racism to be a real problem. Still, they are adapting into the mainstream culture via how they go about their ethnic and racial identities. Both populations endorse the standard multicultural perspective that ethnicity should be mostly a private affair, and that race is best dealt with through cultural education of group differences, not through social structural changes. Specifically, the groups express their ethnicity and race in line with standard multicultural expectations in terms of what parts of their ethnicity they express at various times and how they advance inter-racial equality.