The model minority myth started ins the U.S. the U.s were looking for skilled immigrants in Asian countries and portraying them as successful immigrants and saying the opposite for other minorities such as Hispanic and African-Americans. According to Prashad he stated “In the 1860’s there was a given suggestion made to flood the U.S south with south and east Asian workers to shift the blacks from the land and to undermine their power as newly free people.” So basically they allowed Asian to come to America to try to stop African-Americans from using their right and succeed.
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Hi Yvenson,
Thank you for bringing up “skilled” because that is exactly the kind of exploitation they did at portraying this idea of the model minority.
I agree the model minority myth was used just to further divide Asian Americans from Hispanics and African Americans.