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Re: Organizing Principles: The Myth of the Model Minority (Score: 1)
by birch_barlow on Wednesday, June 29 @ 21:59:45 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Oh yes...because it is written by academics and quotes census figures, it must be right. Please.
Anyway, here's a good post regarding the model minority "myth:"
"There is another way to look at the efforts of East and South Asians to promote a common identity with SE Asians, Pacific Islanders, and any other random groups with lower average IQs, support affirmative action: it's a self-preservation tactic.
The poor test scores and per capita income of the SE Asians/PIs can be averaged with those of the E/S Asians. The skewed statistics thus produced ("xx% of Asians are still in poverty!" "Asian average per capita income is $7,000 less than whites!") are used by E/S Asians to hide their own material successes from the masses.
Combined with a strategy of throwing their weight behind political positions supported by blacks and Latinos, this gains them goodwill, prevents the less adept minorities from figuring out that most E/S Asians actually are a part of the rich "oppressor class," and maybe keeps them from being the target of race riots.
Hiding the fact that they are socioeconomically mobile especially benefits recent E/S Asian immigrants who are gonna need another generation to get on their feet and in the mean time find themselves in a dangerous neighborhood with lots of resentful neighbors who are going nowhere fast. In otherwords, suburban ABCs at Columbia are agitating against whitey to try to make sure their uncle's brother-in-law's friend, an illegal Fujianese waiter in New York, doesn't get beat to death by some blacks as a joke.
Asians feel safe and justified antagonizing whites not only because whites these days aren't known for engaging in pogroms, but also because they have the sneaking suspicion that in the event of another black/Latino uprising, the high IQ E/S Asians share with their white co-workers isn't going to prove enough of a bond for the latter to want to bail their asses out. Koreans definitely got this impression after the National Guard didn't show up in South Central after the Rodney King trial."
This and other comments in this thread can be found here [www.gnxp.com]
See also for example the rapid rise in income of the Vietnamese in spite of coming here as poor refugees (in stark contrast to Central American immigrants who improve marginally in later generations but stay quite poor on average).
"The U.S. Census has released national level socioeconomic and educational 2000 census data for Vietnamese in the United States. The following are highlights from this long-awaited data. The comparable 1990 figure is in parentheses.
U.S. Vietnamese Median Family Income 2000 - $46,929 ($29,800)
% U.S. Vietnamese with Public Assistance Income in 2000 – 10.2% (25%)
% U.S. Vietnamese Families Below the Poverty Level in 2000 – 14.3% (24%) "
Link [www.gnxp.com]
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