The Indian-American community has grown considerably over the last twenty years and is now the second-largest immigrant group in the country, after Mexican-Americans. It also has the highest median income of any ethnic group, and that has led to some arguing that the community was relatively inoculated from racial discrimination, said Milan Vaishnav, Director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

But in a new report, Vaishnav and his coauthors found that fifty percent of Indian-Americans surveyed said they'd experienced racial discrimination in the past year, most often on the basis of their skin color. 

"As bad as they might have it, they think they’re relatively better off than other minority populations in the U.S.," he said.