it actually has a lot more to do with the 1960s and 1990s immigration acts where USA made an effort to accept more investors, students, and educated migrants from Asia
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I’ve not doubt that played a role. But we can look at family structure today, and draw a pretty direct correlation between achievements of race. Asians and Nigerians are top with high levels of family structure, whites are next with reasonable levels, then Hispanics with good...
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the reason why the model minority myth is harmful is because it blatantly ignores the huge populations of families of refugees who still struggle to create a living in USA. Hmong, Cambodian, etc are among highest in poverty in the country
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Then we should differentiate between subpopulations of asians when discussing the model minority. But the numbers do bear out that those of Asian descent - on average - earn more money and have better jobs than those of other backgrounds
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one of the other problems of MMM is that it uses asians as immigrants to say “if they can do it, why can’t you?” to other minorities. but in reality it’s because a good amount of immigrants had already made it in their respective countries before coming here.
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A good amount maybe. But far from all of the successful Asian immigrants came here with wealth and degrees. Are you telling me Asian families don’t stress achievement in academics more than the average American household?
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https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/07/12/income-inequality-in-the-u-s-is-rising-most-rapidly-among-asians/psdt-07-12_economic_inequality-00-05/ … here’s pew research somewhat detailing how asians have the biggest wealth gap among other groups. MMM loves to ignore those at the bottom of the wealth gap and ignore societal differences between refugees and sought-after immigrants
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MMM uses mean household & individual income to compare races. Yes, there is undoubtedly disparity within Asians. But it’s noteworthy that the average Asian achieves more than other ethnicities
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it is extremely note worthy that they seem to be “achieving more” because they were literally brought here like that. there are extreme amounts of poverty among refugee populations that are simply not achieving like the bhutanese, cambodians, burmese
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According to this chart from the original source, there is exactly 1 - ONE - Asian ethnic group that does not make near or above the national median income. Most exceed that mark (including Cambodian), and a couple just fall short by <$4000/yr Bhutanese not on chartpic.twitter.com/j2m0JWsbHD
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Also have to consider that native Hawaiian not doing as well economically is likely explainable with standard economics - why work super hard when you live in basically paradise and can work a bit and do ok?
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that’s literally not why native hawaiians are doing badly but okay


are you just saying random stuff that comes to your head without knowing the history of the colonization and labor patterns of the island??1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes - Show replies
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