Links and Additional Readings
How does this stereotype affect people today?
Asian-American college students have one of the highest rates of attempted suicide and suicidal thoughts compared to their non-Asian colleagues, and the pressure to stay quiet and model the "correct" way for minorities in America to behave is not helping.News
The Real Reasons the U.S. Became Less Racist toward Asian Americans
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/29/the-real-reason-americans-stopped-spitting-on-asian-americans-and-started-praising-them/?utm_term=.c1dc42137e51
Behind the 'Model Minority' Myth: Why the 'Studious Asian' Stereotype Hurts
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/behind-model-minority-myth-why-studious-asian-stereotype-hurts-n792926
'Model Minority' Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians And Blacks
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669/model-minority-myth-again-used-as-a-racial-wedge-between-asians-and-blacks
'Model Minority' Seems Like a Compliment, but It Does Great Harm
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/10/16/the-effects-of-seeing-asian-americans-as-a-model-minority/model-minority-seems-like-a-compliment-but-it-does-great-harm?mcubz=1
The Model Minority Myth
http://fortune.com/2017/04/17/the-model-minority-myth
The Professional Burdens of Being a Model Minority
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/professional-burdens-model-minority-asian-americans/485492
A History of the Asian-American Experience
Exploring the Japanese Internment through Film and the Internet
https://caamedia.org/jainternment/postwar/empowerment.html
Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University
https://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/wordpress/about-our-project
Anti-Chinese Movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chinese_Americans#Anti-Chinese_movement
Chinese Exclusion Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act
Transcontinental Railroad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chinese_Americans#Transcontinental_railroad
Learn More About the Stereotype
Model Minority
https://depts.washington.edu/sibl/Publications/Model%20Minority%20Section%20(2011).pdf
Model Minority
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_minority
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