Vietnamese Americans and the myth of the model minority
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Date
1993-05
Authors
Li, Meredith A.
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Publisher
University of Oregon
Abstract
The modem popular press has portrayed Asian Americans as a "model
minority" whose phenomenal academic and professional achievements prove
that they have assimilated into white middle-class society. However, the
perpetrators of this model minority myth exaggerate the success of Asian
Americans with misleading statistics. Furthermore, by focusing attention on
only the achievements of Asian Americans, the model minority myth not only
obscures the many serious socioeconomic problems in the Asian American
community, but it also promotes discrimination. The model minority image
is particularly inaccurate and damaging when it is applied to the Vietnamese
Americans, who are even more disadvantaged than other Asian Americans by
their lack of acculturation.
Description
iii, 91 p. A THESIS Presented to the Interdisciplinary Studies Program: International Studies and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, May 1993. A print copy of this title is available through the UO Libraries under the call number: SCA Archiv Li 1993
Keywords
Vietnamese Americans, Vietnamese Americans in mass media