The assimilation of course, did not have very altruistic motives as it was used as a method to realign attention to black civil rights. The first time the term “model minority” was publicly realized was in an article, “Success Story, Japanese-American Style” by sociologist William Peterson in 1966, stating that “The Japanese on the contrary [to blacks], could climb over the highest barriers our racists were able to fashion in part because of their meaningful ties with an alien culture” (Peterson, 9). In the article, Peterson fails to acknowledge the efforts of Japanese-American intern’s forced assimilation and gives all credit to the fact that Japanese-Americans kept a connection to Japanese culture. Furthermore, the model minority theory is misleading and contradicting in nature as Peterson cites the 1959 median Japanese-American income and how it was only $322 lower to that of a white-American income, in order to argue that Japanese-Americans are close to ’equality’ with
The assimilation of course, did not have very altruistic motives as it was used as a method to realign attention to black civil rights. The first time the term “model minority” was publicly realized was in an article, “Success Story, Japanese-American Style” by sociologist William Peterson in 1966, stating that “The Japanese on the contrary [to blacks], could climb over the highest barriers our racists were able to fashion in part because of their meaningful ties with an alien culture” (Peterson, 9). In the article, Peterson fails to acknowledge the efforts of Japanese-American intern’s forced assimilation and gives all credit to the fact that Japanese-Americans kept a connection to Japanese culture. Furthermore, the model minority theory is misleading and contradicting in nature as Peterson cites the 1959 median Japanese-American income and how it was only $322 lower to that of a white-American income, in order to argue that Japanese-Americans are close to ’equality’ with