ASA 2 A02
Week 8
This week's reading, "What Asian Americans Are Bringing to Campus Movements for Racial Justice", by Mark Tseng Putterman discusses the identity struggle that Asian-Americans face when trying to determine whether they fall in the category of "disadvantaged minorities" or "privileged individuals". Since Asian-Americans are labeled and thought of as the "model minority," some Asian-American feel as though they already have privilege and therefore do not feel connected to other minorities in the United States.
The article discusses how Asian-Americans are sometimes conflicted on whether they support issues in the minority community or sometimes fail to realize their own community's struggles, because of their status as the "model minority". For example, in my Chinese family, my relatives have expressed their indifference to issues involving minorities in the United States because they do not relate other minorites' issues to their own communities' issues. They fail to recognize that they do face struggles based on their race, just like other minorities in the United States.
However, it is essential for minorities to support each other's causes, in order to make an impactful change. If minorities fail to support minority movements, such as Black Lives Matter, how will we ever expect non-minorities to support them?
Question: Is there a way to abolish the stereotype of the "model minority"?
Citations:
Plaid, Andrea. When Asian American Politics and Black Lives Matter Met at Macalester. 2015. N.p.: n.p., n.d. N. pag. Web. 21 May 2017.
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