Lisa Yee
ASA 002
Blog #1
30 September 2015
In the “Profile America
Fact for Features Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders,” it contains
information from the 2010 Census regarding recent data findings about people
from the different ethnicities: Pacific Islanders and Asians. It was
interesting to see it include percentages showing how eighty-five percent of
Asians in their mid-twenties have gained high school diplomas, half of the
population of Asians achieved their bachelor’s degree, and twenty percent of
Asians got their professional or master’s degree. The article then compared it
to the percentages of Americans who achieved their master’s degree, which was ten
percent. This could lead to the assumption of model minority, when in fact it
is not true that Asians are destined to be more academically successful. During
high school, I experienced expectations from my peers to be smart because of
the stereotypes Asians were categorized under, to be academically successful.
However, it was not model minority, it was my parents who taught me the importance
behind education in order to make it easier for me to gain a job, which
inspired me to work hard in school.
Question: What are some ways in which we can persuade
people that model minority is a myth?
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