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What does it mean to hold up an ethnic or racial group as a model minority? ModelMinority.com is a website that strives to educate Americans about the negative implications of such treatment. Go to their website (modelminority.com/index.html), and read the passage entitled "About ModelMinority.com."
  1. Why does this passage emphasize the diversity among Asian Americans?
  2. According to ModelMinority.com, what are the racist implications of holding up a model minority?
Link to "articles by topic" on the left-hand side of the page, and then to "Academia." Scroll down the page, and read the article titled "Understanding the Educational Achievements of Model Minorities."
  1. According to this article, why is it that Asian Americans came to be seen as a model minority?
  2. According to Vivian Shuh Ming Louie, why is it that other minority groups have had less success, academic and economically, than some Asian Americans?
  3. According to the information in this article, how might we expect the educational attainments of third-generation Asian Americans to be different from their parents' or grandparents' attainments?





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