Summary Of The Model Minority Thesis

The model minority thesis is shown to be one of the main connections between American social policy and Asian Pacific Americans. The model minority thesis came to be around 1965 and this was during the time of the Civil Rights Movement where people tried to stop and take out institutional racial discrimination that was taking place in the United States. During the period of the 1960s-1907s, ethnic groups were feeling that they were being racially discriminated such as African Americans, Latinos, etc. Asian Americans were also part of the groups being discriminated but they were making it out successful during this time of discrimination. People who didn’t really care about racism saw that America’s economic and political institutions were fair used the model minority thesis to help support their claims.

They succeeded because they worked hard, were well educated, and took the initiative while not complaining that they were mistreated by white Americans. They also didn’t seek for affirmative action programs, welfare, or assistance for finding jobs but, were pushing themselves to succeed on their own. Asian Pacific Americans were succeeding without any type of uprising of militancy, so white Americans through the support of this thesis believed that other ethnic groups could do the same and find success like the Asian Pacific Americans. White Americans even took into account how Asian Pacific Americans were pushovers and obedient in the workplace and how they were great in math. Through this belief, the American economic and political system sought out the belief of a “color-blind” system that if specific groups couldn’t achieve political equality or rise in the socioeconomic ladder, they were to only blame