The odious “model minority” myth is alive and well in America. For decades, it’s been the target of criticism because of the pressures many Asian Americans, in particular, say it places on their ...
PHILADELPHIA -- While Asian Americans are a diverse group in every sense of the word, false narratives often obscure that truth. In fact, the anti-Asian backlash we see now is deeply rooted in ...
When I saw Kristen Bell’s anniversary post on Instagram earlier this week, I froze. She celebrated 12 years of marriage to her husband, actor and podcaster Dax Shepard, by writing: Also Read: ICE Is ...
People who don’t know its history think the model minority myth assigned to Asian Americans has positive connotations. After all, on the surface, it is tied to success and achievement which are ...
In their book, The Myth of Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism, Rosalind Chou and Joe Feagin (2008) write about a young Chinese American woman named R.W.-- who murdered her mother by ...
As an Asian-American myself, I like to attribute most of our ethnicity’s success to the hard work we put in. But I’ve come to realize that a narrow mindset is what’s feeding into the dangerous model ...
*(CNN) — From the outside looking in, Prachi Gupta’s family was the epitome of the American Dream. In short, the ‘model minority” myth fits them to a tee. Her father was a doctor, her mother was a ...
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, The Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point (New York: Crown, 2023 It is possible to embrace, learn from, and strongly criticize ...
Note: The following essay contains descriptions of domestic abuse. When I saw Kristen Bell’s anniversary post on Instagram earlier this week, I froze. She celebrated 12 years of marriage to her ...
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