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While there is no denying the Chinese Exclusion Act's racism, the more recent Asian American experience is hardly one of prevalent racism.

Asians are one of the most successful segments of American society.  While Asian people are a minority among the population, they are generally excluded from affirmative action programs (how racist is that!!?!).

While there are exceptions of course, recent Asain immigrants are highly successful in America, and their first generation children tend to be phenomenally successful.

Please don't start playing the victim card as Asians; it is tiresome enough when constantly played by all the other minorities, as well as this administration.[/quote]

If you actually knew a something more about Asian Americans than model-minority sterotypes, you would know that you can't generalize all Asian American groups. Asian Americans have the widest intra-racial achievement gaps of any race. Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian Americans are some of the poorest of the poor in the United States. They have some of the highest high school drop out rates in the country, and among the worst health outcomes.[/quote]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2015/05/18/why-calling-asian-americans-a-model-minority-glosses-over-crucial-issues/

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" The White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI) often cites compelling data to make this case: Asian American and African American students have the highest rates of remedial coursework; one out of four Korean Americans go without health insurance; one of every three AAPIs is limited in English proficiency; and only 18 percent of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders over the age of 25 hold a college degree.

The model minority label makes things worse for large sections of these communities, because their needs are often overlooked or misunderstood and then rarely addressed in government programs and by social-service organizations. Lack of disaggregated data perpetuates this label."[/quote]

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