- So according to the readings, “Excerpt of Prashad The karma of brown folk” & “The racial triangulation of Asian America”, The term “Model Minority” first came about in 1969, when the United States was planning on extending their resources and looking for the best people when it came to science & technology. The United States was mainly focused on hiring people from foreign country that had high degrees of education such as technology & science, specifically ones from Asian America. Many people felt as if this was a way for the United States to try and prove to everyone that they’re not racist & actually accept everyone no matter where you are from. In reality the United States did not realize that while they’re trying to prove to everyone around the world that they are not a racist country by hiring asian Americans & stereotyping them to the point where Asian people are the smartest people in the world, they were actually making it seem as if you were not asian American then you were not smart enough to do this specific task. To sum it up, this is what lead to the comparison of the “elite immigrants” to the rest of the minorities that existed, which unfortunately lead to the citizens of the United States discriminating other groups of minorities and ethnicities simply because you did not have any of the terms that the “Elite immigrants” had. It’s sad that till this exact day, no matter how much it gets called out, racism and discrimination still exist.
- There has been many ways the myth of “Model minorities” have been challenged especially a man named “Zhao” wrote a book going into details on how Asian Americans were judged by the level of success they had achieved throughout their life. So is this saying that if I was an asian American but was not at the level of the next person when it came to education, that I am a failure? that is ridiculous honestly. On top of that, Hasan Minhaj went on to show how many asians Americans were not even being accepted to big Ivy League schools such as Harvard. Statistically he stated Asian Americans only took up 22% of it’s members which shows a clear bias to the term “Elite immigrants” & “Model Minorities”. It is honestly unfair the fact that stereotypes are created towards people, when all this causes is discrimination and hate.
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