The cultural emasculation of Asian American men also serves a sociological function: being portrayed as docile and harmless makes it easier for the majority to accept academic and income-based over-performance without undue resentment.
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Yuri Slezkine's the Jewish Century set out a taxonomy of the gender inversion characterizing "middleman minorities" wherever they appear throughout history
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This points out how other minorities in other countries are emasculated, but I think I'm asking, if this is a good strategy to employ as a group under threat, why aren't all minorities under threat doing this?
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