{"id":3970,"date":"2021-06-16T15:45:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T19:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2023-12-12T15:07:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T20:07:43","slug":"dismantling-myth-of-model-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/dismantling-myth-of-model-minority\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Blog: Dismantling the Myth of the Model Minority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3971 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-16-at-3.35.01-PM-199x300.png\" alt=\"Lauren Lisa Ng headshot\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-16-at-3.35.01-PM-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-16-at-3.35.01-PM.png 430w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 199px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 199\/300;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><button id=\"listenButton1\" class=\"responsivevoice-button\" type=\"button\" value=\"Play\" title=\"ResponsiveVoice Tap to Start\/Stop Speech\"><span>&#128266; Listen to this article<\/span><\/button>\n        <script>\n            listenButton1.onclick = function(){\n                if(responsiveVoice.isPlaying()){\n                    responsiveVoice.cancel();\n                }else{\n                    responsiveVoice.speak(\"First, a poem: ------------------------ The Game Board: Second Generation Chinese American Female Edition Here\u2019s how you play. Wake up in your safe suburban neighborhood, move\u00a0 ahead two spaces. Get dressed in your safe, suburban clothes, move ahead two spaces. Mask up to head out, wave at the neighbor as you drive down\u00a0 the hill\u2014code for\u00a0 you live there. Move ahead\u00a0 one space.\u00a0 Walk into store and watch\u00a0 as they stare at your half-hidden face.\u00a0 The mask, useless. Your onyx hair and\u00a0 crescent eyes betray\u00a0 your invisibility. Move back\u00a0 three spaces. Stand in line, try to stifle it, but they don\u2019t know\u00a0 you\u2019ve suffered from allergies\u00a0 your whole life. The cough\u00a0 escapes\u2014 move back two spaces.\u00a0 The cashier speaks, you respond, in your\u00a0 perfectly perfect American accented English.\u00a0 Move ahead three spaces. Walk back to the car\u2014notice two men talking. They stop, stare, track your movement. Muscles tighten, pace quickens,\u00a0 heart\u00a0 bursts. You\u2019ve drawn\u00a0 a wild card. Climb in safely,\u00a0 move ahead one space.\u00a0 The game changes, of course,\u00a0 with additional players.\u00a0 Bring along your white husband, move ahead\u00a0 three spaces. Bring your half white children,\u00a0 move ahead, well, logically, 1.5 spaces. Go\u00a0 where it\u2019s safe and free from hate\u2013\u00a0 Chinatown, Oakland, East\u00a0 Bay oh wait\u2014 A virus arrives. Move back five spaces. An incumbent falls. Move ahead one. His message does not. Move back two. A challenger wins. Move ahead one. But fear requires no victory. Move back two. Vaccines arrive. Move ahead two. The virus mutates. Move back three. But they all love Asian food. Move ahead two. But they still think we\u2019re dirty. Move back three. But we work really hard. Move ahead two. But we steal their jobs. Move back three. But Asian girls are hot. Lose a turn. And Asian girls are submissive. Go back to start. This they do not realize:\u00a0 it is a single string that ties acceptance with disgust\u2014pulled so\u00a0 tautly, you just might break. ------------------------ I wrote this poem the day after playing a couple grueling rounds of Candyland with my son. Somehow, despite my children no longer being toddlers, I have been unsuccessful in ridding our home of this \u201cclassic\u201d board game. If I had to put my finger on what makes Candyland so tortuous, I\u2019d say it\u2019s the mind-numbing back and forth\u2026 the advancing of a few colored squares only to be sent immediately backward with zero warning. The next day, as I reflected on the frustrating nature of the game, I began to draw a connection to my life as an Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) woman living in the United States.\u00a0 AAPI people have endured over a century of this same sort of emotional whiplash. From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to Hollywood\u2019s loving infatuation with Anna May Wong. From Executive Order 9066 which forced the removal of Japanese people to internment camps in World War II to the rise of the model minority myth. From the \u201cMuslim Ban\u201d in 2017 to the movie \u201cCrazy Rich Asians,\u201d just one year later.\u00a0\u00a0 From over 8,000 recorded incidents of hate against the AAPI community within the last year to an unprecedented celebration of AAPI Heritage Month... We seem to be stuck in a never-ending game of back and forth. However, this past year has also brought to light that what we used to think was \u201cprogress\u201d was really just an illusion. We were, in fact, standing still or moving backward. AAPI communities continue to be seen as the \u201cother\u201d: the perpetual foreigner, the yellow peril, too unclean or uncivilized to ever be fully embraced as Americans. Any sense of moving forward was the model minority myth at work, strategically undermining interracial solidarity and driving wedges, particularly between the Asian American and African American communities. Here are some examples of why the model minority myth is so dangerous: It is statistically incorrect. AAPI communities are not an ethnic monolith. In fact, when data is parsed by ethnicity, we see that AAPI people are the most economically diverse demographic in America. In other words, not all Asians are \u201csuccessful.\u201d It is an example of racial gaslighting \u2014 steering the topic of systemic racism away from White America and placing it upon communities of color. In other words, it says to the Black and African American community, \u201cAsians are making it work. Why can\u2019t you?\u201d It masks the reality of the systemic obstacles that AAPI people truly face by subscribing to us a single story of triumph and achievement.\u00a0 It decenters the genuine accomplishments of diverse people who identify as Asian American or Pacific Islander. From the narrative voice of White America, we are named the model minority, and our success is measured according to only their metrics, not our own.\u00a0 As we work to celebrate diversity, demand equity, and insist on inclusion in every sector, may we be mindful of the single string that ties acceptance with disgust.\u00a0 Dismantling the myth of the model minority involves educating ourselves on its origins and falsehood, naming it when we see it in action, and practicing solidarity among diverse communities as we collectively confront the epidemic of racism.\u00a0 Rev. Lauren Lisa Ng is a poet, ordained American Baptist minister, and community activist who currently serves as Director of Leadership Empowerment at the American Baptist Home Mission Societies. She can be found @laurenlisang across all social media platforms.\", \"US English Male\");\n                }\n            };\n        <\/script>\n     <\/br><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, a poem:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/b><\/p>\n<h4>The Game Board: Second Generation Chinese American Female Edition<\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s how you play.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wake up in your safe suburban neighborhood, move\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ahead two spaces.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get dressed in your safe, suburban clothes,<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">move ahead two spaces.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mask up to head out, wave<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at the neighbor as you drive <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">down<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the hill\u2014code for\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">you live there. Move ahead\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">one space.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Walk into store and watch\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as they stare at your half-hidden face.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mask, useless. Your onyx hair and\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">crescent eyes betray\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">your invisibility. Move back\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">three spaces. Stand in line,<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">try to stifle it, but they don\u2019t know\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">you\u2019ve suffered from allergies\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">your whole life. The cough\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">escapes\u2014<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">move back two spaces.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cashier speaks, you respond, in your\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">perfectly perfect<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American accented English.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move ahead three spaces.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Walk back to the car\u2014notice<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">two men talking. They stop, stare, track<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">your movement. Muscles tighten, pace quickens,\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">heart\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bursts. You\u2019ve drawn\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a wild card. Climb in safely,\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">move ahead one space.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The game changes, of course,\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with additional players.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bring along your white husband, move ahead\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">three spaces. Bring your half white children,\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">move ahead, well, logically,<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1.5 spaces. Go\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">where it\u2019s safe and free from hate\u2013\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chinatown, Oakland, East\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bay oh wait\u2014<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A virus arrives.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move back five spaces.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An incumbent falls.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move ahead one.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His message does not.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move back two.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A challenger wins.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move ahead one.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But fear requires no victory.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move back two.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vaccines arrive.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move ahead two.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The virus mutates.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move back three.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But they all love Asian food.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move ahead two.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But they still think we\u2019re dirty.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move back three.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But we work really hard.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move ahead two.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But we steal their jobs.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move back three.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Asian girls are hot.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lose a turn.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And Asian girls are submissive.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Go back to start.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This they do not realize:\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it is a single string that ties<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">acceptance with<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">disgust\u2014pulled so\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tautly, you just might break.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><b>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/library\/%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8878 size-large lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-C-1024x341.png\" alt=\"TDM Library: your one-stop-shop for update, expert DEI Resources. Explore the platform with a free trial. Click here to learn more.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-C-1024x341.png 1024w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-C-600x200.png 600w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-C-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-C-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-C.png 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/341;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wrote this poem the day after playing a couple grueling rounds of Candyland with my son. Somehow, despite my children no longer being toddlers, I have been unsuccessful in ridding our home of this \u201cclassic\u201d board game. If I had to put my finger on what makes Candyland so tortuous, I\u2019d say it\u2019s the mind-numbing back and forth\u2026 the advancing of a few colored squares only to be sent immediately backward with zero warning. The next day, as I reflected on the frustrating nature of the game, I began to draw a connection to my life as an Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) woman living in the United States.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AAPI people have endured over a century of this same sort of emotional whiplash. From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to Hollywood\u2019s loving infatuation with Anna May Wong. From Executive Order 9066 which forced the removal of Japanese people to internment camps in World War II to the rise of the model minority myth. From the \u201cMuslim Ban\u201d in 2017 to the movie \u201cCrazy Rich Asians,\u201d just one year later.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From over 8,000 recorded incidents of hate against the AAPI community within the last year to an unprecedented celebration of AAPI Heritage Month&#8230; We seem to be stuck in a never-ending game of back and forth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, this past year has also brought to light that what we used to think was <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cprogress\u201d was really just an illusion. We were, in fact, standing still or moving backward. AAPI communities continue to be seen as the \u201cother\u201d: the perpetual foreigner, the yellow peril, too unclean or uncivilized to ever be fully embraced as Americans. Any sense of moving forward was the model minority myth at work, strategically undermining interracial solidarity and driving wedges, particularly between the Asian American and African American communities. Here are some examples of why the model minority myth is so dangerous:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is statistically incorrect. AAPI communities are not an ethnic monolith. In fact, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/aapidata.com\/stats\/national\/national-poverty-aa-aj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">when data is parsed by ethnicity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we see that AAPI people are the most economically diverse demographic in America. In other words, not all Asians are \u201csuccessful.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an example of racial gaslighting \u2014 steering the topic of systemic racism away from White America and placing it upon communities of color. In other words, it says to the Black and African American community, \u201cAsians are making it work. Why can\u2019t you?\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It masks the reality of the systemic obstacles that AAPI people truly face by subscribing to us a single story of triumph and achievement.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It decenters the genuine accomplishments of diverse people who identify as Asian American or Pacific Islander. From the narrative voice of White America, we are named the model minority, and our success is measured according to only their metrics, not our own.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we work to celebrate diversity, demand equity, and insist on inclusion in every sector, may we be mindful of the single string that ties acceptance with disgust.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dismantling the myth of the model minority involves educating ourselves on its origins and falsehood, naming it when we see it in action, and practicing solidarity among diverse communities as we collectively confront the epidemic of racism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/library\/%20\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8045 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TDM-Library-Footer-Ad-C-1024x85.png\" alt=\"Display ad for TDM Library. Text says &quot;Find more content like this in TDM Library. Start my free trial&quot;\" width=\"1024\" height=\"85\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TDM-Library-Footer-Ad-C-1024x85.png 1024w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TDM-Library-Footer-Ad-C-600x50.png 600w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TDM-Library-Footer-Ad-C-300x25.png 300w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TDM-Library-Footer-Ad-C-768x64.png 768w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TDM-Library-Footer-Ad-C.png 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/85;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/revlaurenlisang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rev. Lauren Lisa Ng<\/a> is a poet, ordained American Baptist minister, and community activist who currently serves as Director of Leadership Empowerment at the American Baptist Home Mission Societies. She can be found @laurenlisang across all social media platforms.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, a poem: &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; The Game Board: Second Generation Chinese American Female Edition Here\u2019s how you play. Wake up in your safe suburban neighborhood, move\u00a0 ahead two spaces. 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