Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Asian Americans are wrongly assumed to be doing well, uniformly and virtually without exception. The stereotype, dubbed “the model minority myth,” has been debunked again and again, but it persists in ideological claims that Asian Americans demonstrate racial discrimination that has been eliminated and hard work is all it takes to do well.
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