Asian Americans as Model Minorities

Asian Americans as Model Minorities For 20 years, Asian Americans have been portrayed by the press and the media as a successful minority. Asian Americans are believed to benefit from astounding achievements in education, rising occupational statuses, increasing income, and are problem-fee in mental health and crime. The idea of Asian Americans as a model minority has become the central theme in media portrayal of Asian Americans since the middle 1960s. The term model minority is …

…minority is at best and incomplete picture of the Asian-American experience in the United States. Yet this perception continues, in spite of the fact that Asians are also discriminated against and have not achieved equality with whites. Bibliography WORKS CITED Delucchi, Michael. “The Model Minority Myth and Perceptions of Asian-Americans as Victims of Racial Harrassment.” College Student Journal 30 (3) (1996): 411-15. Schaeffer, Richard. Racial and Ethnic Groups. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc., 2000. James, Jason. “Minorities in America.” 8 Jan. 1998