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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It's not something groups do to themselves, it's something that is regularly done to minorities that occupy a specific niche ("middleman minorities") by the surrounding societies -- though, as the excerpt points out, aligned with adaptive traits the groups adopt.
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I think I wanna know more about the different ways different minority niches are treated, and a list or those niches and what the qualifications are for them
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