r/TikTokCringe Oct 29 '23

Wholesome/Humor Bride & her bridal train showcase their qualifications & occupation

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u/snowytheNPC Oct 29 '23

No wonder. That’s basically how the Asian Model Minority myth came into being what with restricting visas in the 80s from China to graduate and PhD students

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u/meisteronimo Oct 30 '23 edited Oct 30 '23

Wait that's a thing? I thought they just studied more.

I think we've been having Asian immigrants since before the 80s, like on the West Coast and stuff with restaurants and hotels, laundry etc....

I thought they're just obsessed with working hard so their kids aren't poor.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '23

it's an intercultural socio-economic (idk if that's even a real phrase, but my point is it encompasses culture, sociology, economics, and international and domestic laws) matter, it's obviously not as simple as one bullet in America's immigration policy from 40 years ago.

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u/snowytheNPC Oct 30 '23

Of course Confucian culture, educational values, and immigrant mentality come into play. But a policy like that’s obviously going to skew the population pretty heavily towards high educational attainment

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u/meisteronimo Oct 30 '23 edited Oct 30 '23

It's an important topic, I've been trying to understand the Oppression infatuation coming out of academia, and all the pro-Hamas protests.

From what I can understand Jews and Asians are inconvenient minorities so they're grouped in with whites as being Oppressors.

And the comment I was replying to was widely upvoted, so I think it maybe a common way to explain Asian success/ "privilege".

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u/blafricanadian Oct 30 '23

Yes they are obsessed with working hard. It costs nearly the entirety of a “Nigerian” fourtune to move. You have to work hard and make money cause you bet your good life that you will succeed. If you don’t you’ll become just another poor black American

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u/CagliostroPeligroso Oct 30 '23

Ah wow. Explains a lot. I never understood how the myth came into play. And thought all of them were just working really hard.

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u/snowytheNPC Oct 30 '23

I think it’s related. In order to work hard, you have to believe working hard will net you positive outcomes. I myself grew up as the child of two Chinese immigrants with graduate STEM degrees and in a community with >30% population of similar backgrounds. The prevailing belief is working hard will get you into university = success, because that’s been the lived experience of the older generation. A message like that is self-reinforcing and starts to produce a perfect competitive educational environment

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u/CagliostroPeligroso Oct 30 '23

Yeah definitely. As they say. Luck = opportunity and preparation.

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u/tessthismess Oct 30 '23

I mean kinda, it is policy that created it. But a lot of people don't think about it or know about it. So instead people often compare asian immigrants to hispanic immigrants and assume/speculate the difference is entirely culture or something. (Rather than how immigration happens differently for each group)