Eleanor and park author6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() There is no such thing as a good stereotype. Tell your parents, tell your uncles, tell your aunties: Stereotypes are toxic, kids. By buying into the mindset that Asians, as the ‘model minority,’ have more in common with white Americans than with other POC, concerned parents and political leaders came to the false conclusion that affirmative action would be detrimental, and therefore racist, towards Asians. ![]() Sure enough, when I went by the library the other day, I saw a banner proclaiming “SCA5 = RACISM” and two Asian American girls tabling a booth outside city hall.Īnd I wondered - how in the world did it get to this point? How did so many of my fellow Asian Americans end up thinking that affirmative action was racist? Well, I’m guessing the model minority myth played a role. This attempt failed and news outlets flooded with articles reporting the Asian American backlash against affirmative action. Recently, there’s been an attempt to resurrect affirmative action in Californian universities. ![]()
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