The Model Minority

“Whiteness” is a social identity which represents a prioritized social status for people with “accumulated wealth and power”. Different from “white people”, the whiteness is an ideology of white supremacy—a social identity that takes advantage over other racial groups on resource, power and opportunity.
“Whiteness has a cash value: it accounts for advantages that come to individuals through profits made from housing secured in discriminatory markets, through the unequal educations allocated to children of different races, through insider networks that channel employment opportunities to the relatives and friends of those who have profited most from present and past racial discrimination, and especially through intergenerational transfers
Their success was viewed as a “model” of racial groups because of their high level of average wages, education level and kept on the rails, but regardless of their language barrier, burdens in market discrimination, larger family size, and more working adult which made up the gross error of those measurements.
Although Immigrant Act of 1965 brought educated and skilled immigrants, their knowledge and skills seemed useless in the U.S. Most of them have to work on multiple jobs with minimum paid in order to support the living of large family. They were facing the same burden of discrimination as other races like poor blacks and Latinos. Due to the feudalism system and culture in Asian countries, “they were too scared to speak up and fight for their rights” (Amy Uyematsu).” Model minority’s examples of “success” of nonwhite people on society and “quiet” on politics has been promoted on purpose for quieting down other racial groups who were active on fighting for civil rights and equality. In other words, the promotion of model minority became a tool of strengthen