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During this period the model minority myth was popularized to keep Communists—and black people—in check. Asian American success was circulated to promote capitalism and to undermine the credibility of black civil rights: we were the “good”
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“Minor feelings occur when American optimism is enforced upon you, which contradicts your own racialized reality, thereby creating a static of cognitive dissonance.”
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
“For many immigrants, if you move here with trauma, you’re going to do what it takes to get by. You cheat. You beat your wife. You gamble. You’re a survivor and, like most survivors, you are a god-awful parent. Watching”
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
“but men who feign helplessness—which Oberlin specialized in—can be just as manipulative as alpha males because they use their incompetence to free themselves of menial tasks that are then saddled onto women.”
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
“2017 study found that the ideology of America as a fair meritocracy led to more self-doubt and behavioral problems among low-income black and brown sixth graders because, as one teacher said, “they blame themselves for problems they can’t control.”
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
“The reason why so many white men date Asian women is that they can get better-looking Asian women than they can get white women because we are easier to get and have lower self-esteem.”
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
― Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
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