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The model minority myth is a sociological phenomenon that refers to the stereotype of, as well as data on, [1] certain minority groups, particularly Asian Americans, as successful, and well-adjusted, as demonstrating that there is little or no need for social or economic assistance for the same or different minority groups.
Consequently, this perpetuates the propagation of a 'model minority myth', asserting that Asian and Jewish Americans are exemplary law-abiding and productive citizens or immigrants, while concurrently reinforcing the stereotype that Indigenous and African American communities are predisposed to criminal behavior and dependent on welfare. [6]
The "model minority myth" refers to the misleading racial stereotype of Asian Americans as a class defined by the high value they place on education professional success and upward mobility, values which are assumed to come from ethnic culture as opposed to class resources and the pressures to succeed as immigrants. The stereotype also includes ...
In a deeply vulnerable book that combines personal narrative, history and cultural reporting, Gupta examines how the weight of the “model minority” stereotype led her family to unravel.
Once I made it to the Promised Land—Yale, where I met my fellow high achieving brown doppelgangers—I became one of the poster children for the Indian American success story. Since the start of ...
People who perpetuate the model minority myth believe that the different forms of racism which have been experienced by Asian Americans and Black Americans are really the same form of racism, and since Asian Americans have been more successful than African Americans, African Americans are blamed for not experiencing a similar level of success.
For years, Cayden Mak and the grassroots community groups he works with knew that attacks against vulnerable Asian seniors in Chinatowns across the country
He created the term "model minority" to describe his thesis that Japanese American success posed challenges to simple discrimination-based accounts of group socioeconomic differences. From 1966 to 1967, Petersen was professor of sociology at Boston College , and from 1967 to 1978 he was the Robert Lazarus Professor of Social Demography at Ohio ...