ANTH 23 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Model Minority, Asian Americans, Yellow Peril

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21 May 2018
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Asian Americans/Arab Immigration and Stereotypes!
Stereotypes
Oversimplify complex world through defining boundaries between empowered and
disempowered peoples in ways that tend to reinforce dominant ideology and powers that
are:!
Not polyvalent (open to interpretation), but ambivalent (have two interpretations
(stereotypical dualism))!
Are these primarily the product of:!
-A. economic inequality!
-B. innate cognitive tendency to dierentiate self from other!
-C. international geopolitical conflicts !
-D. historical legacy of race-based slavery!
History of Asian stereotypes
“Yellow peril” begins with threatened Mongol invasion of Europe in 13th cent.!
reemerges in US with the growth of Asian immigration in late 19th cent and assertiveness of
Japan’s government in early 20th century !
Model minority stereotype emerges in the ‘60s with more upper class immigrants, interest in
rehabilitating Japan and contrast with restive Blacks !
Ascendance of Japan in the ‘80s leads both stereotypes to resurface.!
Stereotypes emerge with regard to East Asians, but largely become applied to South Asians,
too!
-Recalls earlier Mongolian invasion especially with Japan beating a European power Russia.
-Japanese auto power rising seen as a threat
-Model minority based on only some asian Americans.
-Abused good examples that are politically useful to shush other complains.
-Puts down Asian Americans’ handwork as it is attributed to their race and not their own
handwork. Asians pushed into mathematics and academics.
-Same stereotypes pushed onto South Asians.
What’s wrong with being a model minority?
Stereotype of Asian success renders more recent involuntary immigrant struggles invisible !
Many South Vietnamese had to flee the country and spend years living in Thailand refugee
camps. !
Mostly involuntary migration of refugees rather than voluntary economic migration !
Exile mentality and language barriers produce low voting rates and lack of political
representation!
Lowest rate of English proficiency and highest rate of incarceration among Asian Americans !
-In reality many refugees coming as a product of Vietnam war who have not had
advantages as ppl in the country for years and their hardships are ignored.
-The model minority myth ignores them.
-Often model minority spurs fear in people of competition from asians.
Hmong Struggles
Communists took over Laos at the end of the war, so Hmong had to flee or face reprisals!
Only about 1,000 were evacuated with US soldiers; others lived in squalid Thailand refugee
camps!
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