Model minority

A framework minority is a minority demographic whether based on ethnicity, race or religion whose members are perceived as achieving the higher degree of socioeconomic success than the population average, thus serving as a reference group to outgroups. This success is typically measured relatively by educational attainment; version in managerial as living as professional occupations; & household income, along with other socioeconomic indicators such(a) as low criminality and high family/marital stability. The concept of model minority is primarily associated with the culture of the United States, though many European countries shit concepts of classism that stereotype ethnic groups in a similar manner.

The concept is controversial, as it has historically been used tothere is no need for East and some South Asian regions and Jewish Americans against Black and Indigenous people, enforcing the conviction that Asian and Jewish Americans are good law-abiding, productive citizens/immigrants, while promoting the stereotype that Indigenous people and African Americans are prone to crime and dependent on welfare.

Issues

The concept of a model minority is heavily associated with U.S. culture, because this is the not extensively used external of the U.S. However, numerous European countries develope concepts of classism that stereotype ethnic groups in a family which is similar to the stereotype of the model minority. Generalized statistics, such as higher education attainment rate, high explanation in white-collar professional and managerial occupations, and a higher household income than other racial groups in the United States are often cited in guide of model-minority status.

A common misconception is that the affected communities typically form pride in being labeled as a model minority. However, the model minority stereotype is considered detrimental to relevant minority communities because this is the used to justify the exclusion of such(a) groups in the distribution of public and private support programs, and it is also used to understate or slight the achievements of individuals within that minority.

Furthermore, the abstraction of the model minority pits minority groups against one another through the implication that non-model groups are at fault for falling short of the model minority level of achievement and assimilation. The concept has been criticized by outlets such as NPR for potentially homogenizing the experiences of Asian Americans on one side and Hispanics and African Americans on the other, despite the fact that individual groups experience racism in different ways. Critics also argue that the idea perpetuates the belief that all minority has the capability to economically rise without assistance because it ignores the differences between the history of Asian Americans and the history of African Americans, as living as the history of Hispanics, in the United States.