AAST 398 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Model Minority, Human Capital Flight, Immigration Policy
16 Feb 2018
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Written to: differentiate/distance second generation children from their parents, i speak english and they don"t . Sanitized for white people, written with parents as an audience in mind. Lee model minority stereotype due to privilege in socioeconomic origins of immigrant group, not culture. Wong - immigration policy led to stereotype which leads to cultural pressures. Jun disciplinary construction against poor black people set up by white american: neoliberalism everything is individual and each person"s struggles can be fixed individually, not institutionally. Brain drain taking away educated persons from their country of origin. Brain rust educated immigrants not being able to work at their potential due to language barriers or economic reasons. Ethnic capital resources created by and for a cultural community. Immigration policy influenced type of asian immigrant coming to the u. s. Jin feels emasculated by his asian-ness and inability to. Get girls, so when he transforms into danny, this is his idea of masculinity.
