Alexis Gayle DB 8

In Kim’s “The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans”, it is stated that “The valorization of Asian Americans as a model minority who have made it on their own cultural steam only to be victimized by the reverse discrimination of race conscious programs allow White opinion makers to lambast such programs without feeling racist…” (Kim, 117). In 1850, racial triangulation gave Whites the power to exploit and set their dominance as the race to be. From this, the model minority myth construed Asian to be successful in education and basic life qualities whereas Black people are guaranteed to struggle with their own deficiencies. The problem with the myth is it centers too much on Asians material success forcing pressure on them to be at the top. The myth does not assimilate Asians to Whites. Model minority was first uttered in a magazine later determining culture is a matter of blood or biological race. The rebirth of the model minority myth came again at a political time during a conservative campaign of civil rights and affirmative action. This myth is reproduced in affirmative action because it yet again serves to protect Whites from backlash from the “bad minority” and the minority with no cultural values to success.