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In Reply to: I swear, this guy is predisposed - always waiting to be offended posted by Chris from Lafayette on August 28, 2021 at 21:32:13:
"While the current stereotype of Asian-Americans is that they are smart, competent and hard-working, a century ago, Asian-Americans were perceived as illiterate, undesirable, full of "filth and disease" and unassimilable. They were perceived as "marginal members of the human race," were denied the right to become naturalized U.S. citizens, and segregated to ethnic enclaves.
But the change in U.S. immigration law in 1965 — which gave preference to highly educated and highly skilled applicants — ushered in a new wave of Asian immigrants. Not only are they more likely to have graduated than those who did not immigrate from their countries of origin, but they are more likely to have graduated from college than the U.S. mean — what we refer to as "hyper-selectivity".
For example, Chinese immigrants in the United States are 12 times as likely to have graduated from college than Chinese who did not immigrate. They are also almost twice as likely to have a college degree than the average American. The hyper-selectivity has resulted in the stereotype that Chinese-Americans (and Asian-Americans more broadly) are smart, competent and hard-working. But they are also vilified for being too smart, too focused on academics, one-dimensional and lacking personal skills." NY-er
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Follow Ups
- A primer on stereotypes, just for you: - tinear 08:14:13 08/29/21 (4)
- just one point - Analog Scott 16:22:15 08/29/21 (0)
- Well! The New Yorker! I bow my head in submission! - Chris from Lafayette 13:06:41 08/29/21 (2)
- Address the article. I conflate nothing, the points are general because anti-Asian racism is so - tinear 13:37:11 08/29/21 (1)
- OK - I can't even disentangle your "sentences" in this last post - Chris from Lafayette 14:12:50 08/29/21 (0)