Guo argues that the success of Asian Americans is not solely due to educational achievements but also to the fact that White Americans stopped being so explicitly racist toward them because they believed the model-minority trope.19 America bought into the character scorecard of Asian Americans years ago. In 1974, writer Frank Chin said, regarding the model-minority image, “Whites love us because we’re not Black.”20 It is important to note that Asian Americans who do not fit within the model-minority stereotype are discriminated against and face racism daily. The character scoring never stops,
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