[Vision2020] Hillary's slur on Indian-Americans

[Frank Cheng]

While the "model minority" ideal is somewhat of
innocuous generalization, the idea that
Asian-Americans find it difficult to blend in is
another over-simplification with I believe more
harmful effects. From my experience as an American
with Asian heritage, American society in general is
color neutral. I haven’t experienced the disbelief
that I am an American, and I’ve lived all parts of
this country, from small towns to large cities. What
Asian-Americans want and value are simply what any
American would, no further explanation needed there.
Being over 40 I find that some of the younger
Asian-American crowd has been indoctrinated with
racial-identity ideas. Thus some perceive the bumps
and barriers anyone would experience in life as some
sort of racial discrimination episode. Unfortunately
many who consider themselves a member of minority
group fall into this trap and it becomes one that
holds them back.

Frank Cheng

--- Melynda Huskey <mghuskey@msn.com> wrote:
> Dick writes:
> 
> "We never hear any complaints out of those from the
> Orient. They come here, 
> work and study hard and blend in to our society and
> become model citizen 
> Americans. That is the kind of immigrant they all
> should be."
> 
> You know, that idea of the Asian "model minority" is
> a really pernicious 
> one.  Few Asian-Americans experience themselves as
> fitting in or blending 
> seamlessly with U.S. society:  it's pretty common
> for fifth- and 
> sixth-generation Asian-Americans to be asked, "Where
> are you from?"  If they 
> respond, "Des Moines, Iowa," they are asked
> again,"No, where are you 
> *really* from?"  The stereotypes of Asians are
> painfully alive--submissive 
> mail-order bride, math whiz, restaurant owner,
> inscrutable "Oriental" . . . 
> just think about the implications of generalizing
> about the cultural and 
> behavioral contexts of people from places as far
> apart as from Japan to 
> India, from Cambodia to Tibet.
> 
> 
> Melynda Huskey
> 
>
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