Image of Model Minority

Many Asian Americans have done a good job in following the American dream, such as getting good educations, good working place, and earn good living. This is how we become the model minority that the society believes for Asian Americans. We are setting up a good example for everyone to look up to. However, do these realities seem way too good to be true? The Socioeconomic Characteristics by Racial Groups chart describes the facts about the education levels and the wages they get between each ethnic group.

            Based on a chart, it stated that Asian Americans earn more than that of White people in America, especially when it gets to college degrees and advanced college degrees. This tells us that through model minority, American dreams are accessible. We should not care about any racial prejudice that people makes in us. Through this, much discrimination are not being made to Asian Americans, such as not requiring to take the bilingual education, government documents in multiple languages, and welfare. However, there are stereotypes that Asian Americans are successful and never struggle. But this is not true. In fact, in order to be successful, hard work was necessary, so there should not be any accusations no more.

            This is significant because the image of model minority is important in today’s society. It affects the nation in economical ways. The power of model minority is the reason how the United States is developing into a more economical country, full of technology for everyday lifestyles. Without this image, the country would turn into turmoil as it is not developing any better. Also, rather than to create a stereotypes of the model minority, we should all be able to respect the Asian cultures of education because it is helping the United States into a greater value.