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Wait! Is it a compliment to be labeled a "model minority?"

The Model Minority Myth

Post author:artandjennifer
Post published:November 16, 2023
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The model minority concept of Asian Americans being racially superior to other non-white ethnic groups is not a compliment, nor a framework to empower Chinese Americans.

In their first decades here, Chinese immigrants were labeled a "yellow peril." Today they're hated by some, and to others, they've become a "model minority." What happened?

Yellow Peril to Model Immigrants

Post author:artandjennifer
Post published:November 15, 2023
Post category:Going Back
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Exclusionists barred Chinese laborers but the pro-China lobby won an immigration gateway for intellectuals, businessmen and students -- the studious, hard-working, successful who became the models for the "model minority."