Model Minority Myth: William Petersen In The New York Times Magazine
Discuss 4 main points on the topic (See grading rubric in your syllabus). I've listed questions below for you to consider in your paper. Your paper should be between 5 and 8 typed pages, cite in text as well as a separate reference page. (See instructions in your syllabus)
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research and read 2 outside articles on this topic from scholarly articles or books, and read and reference the following articles that are posted on UB Learns : Readings: Isao Takei, et al. "Poverty among Asian Americans in the 21st Century; " Melody Manchi Chao., et al., "Asians as Model Minority: Implications for U.S. Government Policies"
Consider the following questions in your paper: a) Define the term "model minority," b) Which minority group in the United States is often referred to as the "model minority"? Why?, c) Who coined the term "model minority" in the United States, and what was the original context? d) Does the "model minority" myth hold up to scrutiny concerning current average income levels for Asian American families? Explain. e) Provide two (2) reasons why the "model minority" myth as applied to Asian-Americans is overly broad for any empirical application. f) What are two (2) potential benefits to the dominant white culture that stems from the "model minority" myth as applied to Asian Americans?
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Model Minority Myth
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Model Minority Myth
The model minority is a population group that can be taken to be of a higher socioeconomic class than the average. This conclusion is drawn based on their education, income, low rate of criminal activities and the stability of families. The population group can be based on religion, ethnicity and or race.
In the 1960's the Asian Americans most especially the Japanese and Chinese were considered to be the model minority group in the US. “According to Chao, Chiu, Chan, Mendoza & Kwok (2013) even after the differences of the life and cultural interactions among Asian and the Americans, the model of minority myth continues to blossom in the United States of America. Considering a divided and shared theory perspective, it can be shown that the model minority picture or idea of being persevering, highly productive, and compliant is a trait representation of Asian Americans which is widely and commonly found in the Americans. Furthermore, most Americans have the notion that majority of the citizens in the U.S. expect Asian-born Americans to explicitly conform to the model myth. When taken holistically together, the outcomes indicate that the model minority myth representation is a divided and separately shared characteristic in the United States. This is as compared to the other minority groups like the African Americans, they displayed constant prosperity and stability both economically and socially. Most of them even had managed to secure white collar jobs. By this time the term did not exactly refer to all Asian Americans but mostly the Chinese and Japanese since as compared to the other members of the Asian community, their population was higher in the US and their socioeconomic status was relatively better than that of the rest of the Asian American groups.
William Petersen in The New York Times magazine in January 1996 first coined the term model minority. He described the culture of the Japanese as one that compromised of strong family values and very good work ethics. Factors that prevented them being the minority problem. He strongly believed that their prosperity was backboned by their respect for authority and their strong culture and beliefs.
The model minority myth does not agree with the observations about the current average incomes for Asian American families. Even though the myth claims that as compared to whites, more Asian Americans have white collar jobs, it doesn't consider the income received by these two different groups. Asian Americans receive a lower income as compared to the whites. the minority model also overshadows the fact that if the whites and the Asians are compared, poverty is higher in the Asian American families and their income is not very different from the other minority groups like the African Americans. In the period between 2005 and 2007 a community survey was conducted in America, the study aim was to investigate the ultimate and relative poverty levels among Asian-Americans in the United States. The outcomes showed that absolute and relative poverty is higher among Asians-born Americans than among the American citizens overall as well as by their native position and identity. Meaning the poverty levels are high among the Asians who came to America than those that were born in United States. A more comprehensive analysis indicated, that the racial discrepancies are to be immensely dependent with factors impacted by immigration into America. Poverty was found to be common and higher among those immigrants who migrated less than five years than among those Asian-Americans who have been in the United States for a period of 5 years and above, and those who were born in America are the most common immigrants than the ones who are Asian-born Americans. After regulating for basic population analysis characteristics, poverty is lower among Asian-born Asians than among the Americans who were not born in America. Non America-born adult Asians who are financially stable and thus depend on their incomes, poverty level is at less than among American citizens mostly with respect to being categorized as members of the "working poor." However, important ethnical and cultural differences within the Asian part of origin are evident. Poverty level is slightly more than those for American-born citizens continue to be evidently clear among the non-America-born adult young generation of Cambodians, Hmong, and Thai as the phenomenon effects of these outcomes are discussed (Takei & Sakamoto 2011).
This shows that although there are Asian Americans wealthier and more successful than some whites, the Asian Americans are still affected by poverty more than the whites generally especially the native-born whites.
The model minority myth as applied to Asian Americans is not empirically applicable because of two main factors. One, the myth is too general and the deductions are derived from a specific subgroup of the Asian community. According to Margret (2017) the disparities that is found in the Asian community are commonly not keenly looked at due to dismantled stat...