that's a super arrogant thing to say too
The "model minority" concept arose in the 1960s during the height of Civil Rights/Black Power. Time, or some other magazine, did a report on Japanese Americans, who had higher incomes and education levels than Blacks at the time, and said they had achieved the American dream by being docile and not rocking the boat, including not backlashing on the illegal and racist internment, and supposedly "proved" that the Blacks were just bad to protest for their rights. Granted, they indirectly benefited by the fight for civil rights and that they didn't have to be on the bottom because we already were. Same story in many countries in the "New World". The model minority concept has always existed not to complement Asians but to kick us in the teeth.
Granted, there are many Asians, especially in academic circles, who refuse to abide by the BS this girl talks about. ModelMinority.com writes a lot about this and there are some interesting articles too like here:
False Friends in the Affirmative Action Debate
A lot of people forget the President of the University of California Berkeley who fought Ward Connerly when he was destroying California affirmative action in the 1990s was Asian--Chang-Lin Tien.
But back to the topic, a lot of people unfortunately eat this BS. Can't say if they are the majority but enough want approval to kick us to the curb--just like previous waves of immigrants.
Sad thing is, if we are ever gone, a lot of mofos (esp. Asians and Hispanics) would get a huge wake up call. Lots of groups succeed in the US because 1) they don't have to be at the bottom like their home country, 2) we spend money on them when many Whites won't. They can be savers, we can be spenders, and the wealth transfers
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In race talk the move into mainstream America always means buying into the notion of American blacks as the real aliens. Whatever the ethnicity or nationality of the immigrant, his nemesis is understood to be African Americans.
-Toni Morrison, "On the Backs of Blacks"