Haolin Li, Week 4, A01

  The stereotype called “model minority” is an important reason of the discrimination of Asian American women, especially in academy. Asian American people are always thought to be talent and have high-achievement in any area. As employees, Asian American people are always forced to do more work and are expected to finish much more difficult tasks, without consider their actual abilities. The co-workers or leader in companies will hardly care about them which makes those Asian American people stressed out. As students, Asian American students are thought to have good grades and to be talent. Most of them are just normal students and they are not are talent as they are thought to be. However, many teachers who hold that belief will not likely to offer supports and assistance to those Asian American students which they are supposed to have. If those students didn’t achieve the grades which they are though to have they will always be considered as lazy or didn’t make efforts on study. What’s worse is that whites who believe the model minority myth are also likely to endorse other, unfavorable beliefs about Asian Americans as well (Parks, S.J., & Yoo, H.C., Asian American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 7, No. 4, 2016). All those thing add up making Asian American people stressed out.





Reference: Parks, S. J., & Yoo, H. C. (2016). Does endorsement of the model minority myth relate to anti-Asian sentiments among White college students? The role of a color-blind racial attitude. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 7(4), 287–294. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000056