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====**The model minority myth operates under the structural triangulation of the White, Asian, and Black. Racial categories are embodied onto different identities through racialization and enforced by modern schooling practices. Even though Asian are upheld as the Model Minority, they are simultaneously racialized as foreign and unassimilated foreigners. The duality of Forever Foreigner syndrome and Model Minority Myth simultaneously posits Asian as a threat to America and undermine solidarity between non-black groups.**==== Lee et al. 16 (Stacey J. Lee, a Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Eujin Park, a Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison & Jia-Hui Stefanie Wong, a Professor of Educational Policy Studies at Trinity College; 2016/12/14; “Racialization, Schooling, and Becoming American: Asian American Experiences” http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00131946.2016.1258360)

====**The myth of the model minority compares the successful Asian American to the Black/brown body---this places the blame on these black and brown students instead of the structures that create such conditions**====

Ching 15 “Racialization in the Context of Urban Asian American Student & the Asian-Black Binary” Yenhoa Ching is a Doctor of Philosophy in Education in University of California, Berkeley.

**This forces Asian Americans to conform to whiteness in order to access to schooling and education, this push toward whiteness is an attempt to distance themselves from blackness**

 * Lee et al. 16 **(Stacey J. Lee, a Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Eujin Park, a Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison & Jia-Hui Stefanie Wong, a Professor of Educational Policy Studies at Trinity College; 2016/12/14; “Racialization, Schooling, and Becoming American: Asian American Experiences” http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00131946.2016.1258360)

====**The Myth is anti-black at its core—it posts Asian as the “model minority” and criminalize blacks as “the problematic minority”. Assimilation into Model Minority behavior only strengthens the tool White Supremacy used to maintain the system of antiblackness.**==== Lee 17 et al. ( Stacey J. Lee, a Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Choua Xiong, a graduate student pursing a joint degree in Cultural Anthropology and Educational Policy Studies. Linda Marie Pheng, an associated Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Mai Neng Vang, a third-year graduate student in the Educational Policy Studies program; “The Model Minority Maze: Hmong Americans Working Within and Around Racial Discourses”; 2017/6/10; []; p11-13)

====**The Model Minority Myth mystifiesthe plight of the Southeast Asian by upholding an image of universal success—the invisible hand of White supremacy locks Southeast Asian the cycle of poverty, underachievement, and senseless violence. Their culture is portrayed “savage and primitive” in comparison the white ideal of the Model Minority image. This pits Asian communities against each other by portraying students who internalize the Myth as “good students” and those who dare to resist the system as “problematic students”. The Myth is only a tool to sustain White Supremacy.**==== Lee 17 et al. ( Stacey J. Lee, a Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Choua Xiong, a graduate student pursing a joint degree in Cultural Anthropology and Educational Policy Studies. Linda Marie Pheng, an associated Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Mai Neng Vang, a third-year graduate student in the Educational Policy Studies program; “The Model Minority Maze: Hmong Americans Working Within and Around Racial Discourses”; 2017/6/10; []; p2-5)

**The Model Minority Myth is complicit in ALL vectors of oppression. It helps to perpetuate a laundry list of oppressions through the brainwashing of Asians themselves.**
Yang-Stevens & Pham 16 [Kat Yang-Stevens is a queer gender femme and first generation Chinese Am, they are a writer, educator, organizer and and cultural creator who creates and facilitates original teaching materials and workshops; Alex-Quan Pham is a Vietnamese queer, gender non-conforming femme warrior; “Akai Gurley the "Thug," Peter Liang the "Rookie Cop" and the Model Minority Myth”; February 26, 2016; https://katyangstevens.squarespace.com/complicatingourcomplicity]

====**Debate is complicit in a larger system of oppression that render us voiceless in a foreign culture. The forced assimilation into normative, English-centered debate make the activity incompatible with the democratic deliberation and policy education of international debaters. Without the acceptance of diversity in debate community, white supremacy will continuous codified most vulnerable minorities as disposable “second-class citizens” to maintain America’s global dominance.**====

Darder 16 (Antonia Darder is a scholar, artist, poet, activist, and public intellectual, and the Leavey Presidential Endowed Chair in Ethics and Moral Leadership in the School of Education at Loyola Marymount University. “CULTURAL HEGEMONY, LANGUAGE, AND THE POLITICS OF FORGETTING: Interrogating Restrictive Language Policies”; 2016-4-23; []?)

**We refuse to distance ourselves from the pathology of blackness. Our disavowal of the Model Minority Myth is claiming our proximity to blackness, which is an orientation to destroy the world.**
Phạm 16 (Xoài Phạm is is a Vietnamese queer, gender non-conforming femme warrior “Ending Anti-Blackness Needs to Be a Top Priority for Asian Americans – Here’s Why”; 2016/2/26; [])

====**Asian rhetoric functions as a disruption of the dominant discourse surrounding the Asian American identities. This counter-memory empowers Asian people who have had scripts placed onto them. Although different Asian groups have had different experiences, situating shared tropes creates a locus for Asian people to galvanize around, and creates the foundation for Asian spaces of resistance.**==== Franchini 13 (Jennifer Lee Sano-Franchini, Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing. Michigan State University, Professor in the Department of English, Virginia Tech, XCaliber Award for Exceptional Contributions to Technology-Enriched Teaching and Learning, 2015, THE RHETORICAL MAKING OF THE ASIAN/ASIAN AMERICAN FACE: READING AND WRITING ASIAN EYELIDS, 2013, Doctoral Dissertation - Michigan State University)