Episode 07: How The Model Minority Narrative Was Used As A Tool To Benefit the US

What is a Model Minority:

The Model Minority is a minority demographic (whether based on ethnicity, race or religion) whose members are perceived as achieving a higher degree of socioeconomic success than the population average, thus serving as a reference group to outgroups. So, basically a model minority is viewed as doing everything ‘right’. This success is typically measured  by educational attainment, representation in managerial and professional occupations, and household income, along with other socioeconomic indicators such as low criminality and high family/marital stability.

The concept of the ‘model minority’ is controversial, as it has historically been used to suggest there is no need for government intervention in socioeconomic disparities between certain racial groups. This argument has most often been applied in America to contrast Asian Americans and Jewish Americans against Black and Indigenous people, perpetuating a "model minority myth" that Asian and Jewish Americans are good law-abiding, productive citizens/immigrants, while promoting the stereotype that Indigenous people and African Americans are prone to crime and dependent on welfare.

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