Asian excellence is not a myth - by Diane Yap

A dissection of the "model minority myth"

The “model minority myth” (MMM) is trotted out as a trump card to shut down every discussion about the root causes of the academic achievement gap and other racially disparate outcomes. But it’s a profoundly racist concept meant to silence Asians by calling them pawns of white supremacy if they dare to challenge the narrative that structural racism is an insurmountable barrier to better life outcomes. What is the MMM? It was defined by social justice researcher OiYan Poon as the strategic presentation of Asians as “a model of self-sufficient minority success” and the use of this stereotype…

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