Posted on 03/21/2009 6:29:08 AM PDT by flowerplough
Recently Forbes ran a contentious article that slipped through the cracks without much commentary. The piece, written by Jason Richwine of the American Enterprise Institute, declared Indian Americans The New Model Minority, as if we were competing for the title in a pageant.
Lets clear this up once and for all. Being called a model minority is an unwelcome characterization that is damaging and tough to overcome. Why do you think the old model minoritiesEast Asian Americanshave struggled to shed the label since they were first saddled with it in the 1960s because of their advanced educations and high earnings.
Today, the term is largely regarded as a stereotype, and it is surprising that Richwineand Forbes, for that mattercould be so out of touch.
The phrase model minority inherently pits one minority group against others, as Deepa Iyer, executive director of South Asian Americans Leading Together, argues in her response to the Forbes piece. After all, if one community is the model, then the others are problematic and less desirable.
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Of course it does. It makes it easier for the democrats to promise everything under the sun to each group to get their votes so the eevvillll conservatives and republicans won't be keepin' y'all down.
You're just too stupid to understand the ploy.
You’re right. The author is worried she might miss out on the goodies that may come her way.
I think it is time for every to start “acting white” or acting american or acting chinese or whatever.
That means work hard, be honest, don’t do drugs or crimes, value education, be thoughtful and responsible.
And it is time for even the whites to start acting white (or maybe it should be “acting asian”).
Well, the Indians have at least one dumbie in their midst.
French new-wealth hypocrite bigot cowardly language and cultural nationalist “snobizerisms” is what it is.
Folkes, they are the fascists and the racists and the Nazies of our days, made PC by Hillary, Pelosi and homosexual feminists like Obama, all teleprompted.
Everyone has a right to wear South Pole, drink 40’s on the street corner, and live on welfare. Fight for it!
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