The Minority Predicament: An Analysis of Asian American Success and the

The nonage Predicament An Analysis of Asian the Statesn Success and the Model nonage Paradigm My gran sent me a letter from home, telling the success story of her old Chinese tenants who, through hard work, had become in truth wealthy in the 9 short years they lived in America. My grandmother embraces the belief that with hard work, patience and a little help from the example minority stereotype, someday Asians will gain full approval of exsanguine America. She believes that Asian Americans are inherently smarter, more diligent and sparing than other racial minorities of our time. I, on the other hand, am skeptical towards this assume advantage that other minorities have perceived as elevators to the ladder of success in American society. While Asian Americans are able to hit acculturation by gaining material success, despite this economic advancement, they are unavailing to assimilate soci every(prenominal)y into mainstream America because of prejudice and discrimination. Prejudice and oppression by discolors underlies the discourse used to describe Asian Americans as the sit around minority. According to Eric Liu, Asian Americans have been called the New Jews, a label meant to evince the some parallels between these two groups of immigrants Jews started out as outsiders Asians did too Jews climbed the barriers and herd the Ivies Asians did too. Jews climbed faster than any minority in their time Asians did too. The distinction between these two racial groups asserts Liu, is that in America the very simile of the Jew now stands for assimilation, but Asians are unable to blend into white American society as Jews did half a century ago. The model minority paradigm first emerged during 1960s in response to the urbane ... ...r frustration on this Asian American, and assailed Chin with racial epithets and blamed those same(p) him for the unemployment of American auto workers. The American auto industry, they felt, had been threatened by competit ion with Japans prospering automobile industry. This violence again engages the Orientalist stereotyping that all Asians can be classified together as a corporate foreign other. Many minorities like Mukherjee and Divakaruni have expressed that although many traditional obstacles of prejudice have been made obsolete, discrimination still exists, specially in the negative responses of other Americans to their success. The peaking of Anti-Asian sentiment and violence on Americas streets and office buildings has reinforced this theme ten fold. Asians must essay to dissolve the racist love behind the distortions of the model minority paradigm.