Ren Su DB# 8

In the “The racial triangulation of Asian America” and “Excerpt of Prashad The karma of brown folk” we read this week, we can know that “model minority” is discussing that Asian Americans are smarter than Americans. The term first appeared in 1960 because the United States was looking for technical personnel from most Asian countries to immigrate to the United States to provide technical support to the United States. But this idea has a derogatory meaning. In the video we watched, we can clearly see the discrimination and prejudice of the American Ivy League against Asian students.

In my personal opinion, we must discard these stereotyped influences, because on the surface it seems to be a compliment to an ethnic group, but in reality, these will make these ethnic groups suffer discrimination and prejudice. Because it is impossible that this ethnic group are all geniuses, and in addition, regardless of whites, African Americans, can be top in a certain field. So these are very unfair.