{"id":981,"date":"2020-10-24T20:50:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T00:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/asn-114-asian-american-history\/?p=981"},"modified":"2020-10-24T20:50:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T00:50:40","slug":"jacob-goffstein-db8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/asn-114-asian-american-history\/2020\/10\/24\/jacob-goffstein-db8\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Goffstein DB8"},"content":{"rendered":"

The concept of a model minority began in the 1960s when the U.S. was looking to accept skilled immigrants from various Asian countries. The U.S. sought to boost their own status\/progress in the scientific and technological community by integrating some extremely skilled and knowledgeable scientists and technical workers from outside countries. They also sought to dispel the notion that the U.S. is racist. This idea of a model minority – this group of \u2018elite immigrants\u2019 who were considered extremely useful and productive to American society was created as a cruel comparison to other minority groups that did not necessarily have the same \u2018success\u2019 as the model minorities. While many Asian Americans are stereotyped as model minorities, African Americans are often stereotyped as \u2018thugs\u2019 or \u2018criminals\u2019. I think it goes without saying that while these are two very different experiences for those individuals, it is undoubtedly very unfair to both groups of people being stereotyped (or any other group, of course).<\/span><\/p>\n

As a side note, on the topic of affirmative action, I\u2019m gonna have to say I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the best idea. Not because I am not a proponent of equality, but because I don\u2019t think it necessarily solves the problem. I think we would do better to determine why specific minority groups are underrepresented in colleges \/ higher education \/ various other places and address those issues directly. If, for example, the reason African Americans are underrepresented in college is that in a lot of communities during the steps before college they lack access to the same tools (such as quality elementary or high schools) as other communities, then I think this would be best solved by investing in those communities and providing them access to the same opportunities as everyone else.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The concept of a model minority began in the 1960s when the U.S. was looking to accept skilled immigrants from various Asian countries. The U.S. sought to boost their own status\/progress in the scientific and technological community by integrating some extremely skilled and knowledgeable scientists and technical workers from outside countries. They also sought to … Continue reading “Jacob Goffstein DB8”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1995,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/asn-114-asian-american-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/asn-114-asian-american-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/asn-114-asian-american-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/asn-114-asian-american-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1995"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/asn-114-asian-american-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/asn-114-asian-american-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/asn-114-asian-american-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/asn-114-asian-american-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/asn-114-asian-american-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/asn-114-asian-american-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}