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In response to: The Model Minority Myths

The model minority myth situates Asian Americans as the highest-achieving minority group in America and therefore the “model” minority. this narrative invisibilizes historical systemic racial violence and persecution experienced by Asian Americans and distracts from the reality that Asian Americans experience the highest income gap in the united states and are targeted by ICE raids and deportations. the model minority myth was created in direct response to black liberation efforts of the 1960s, and is used to pit communities of color against each other by implying that “bootstrapping” behaviors, hard work, and good intentions are enough to heal the deep wounds of our country’s systemic racism.

How does the Model Minority Myth show up today? Within the Asian American community, and between Asian American communities and other People of Color?

Currently there is an account on tiktok called robin.gan. He is an asian who has lived in the United States for years. His account is dedicated to posting his raps, which are all about him focusing on studying, and he doesn't care about anything else except studying.

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2-3 themes that are emerging that you'd like to continue to research further

I'm intrigued by some of the photography projects at the time and I thought I'd focus on collecting some photos

2 questions you have after researching

About the reason why the US military confiscated some of Dorothea Lange's Japanese detention photo records

What it means for society to now be able to see banned photo collections

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resources: https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/japanese/behind-the-wire/ https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/japanese-american-internment https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/Internment_Handouts.pdf https://catalog.archives.gov/search-within/536000?sort=naId%3Aasc book: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment

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As a creative, what is your relationship with social movements?

The thing that I've always thought of is that the point of creating is to give voice to certain groups. I want to express so I create. Whether for yourself or for others. Only when you learn things from society or social movements, and then you make those things take root in your mind through thinking, will you have the desire to express. This is what I consider to be the origin of creation. That is to say, in my opinion, the relationship between creation and social movement is like soil and seed.

There are no right or wrong answers, tell us about your past, present, and where you might like to be in the future.

I used to have a very low desire to create, and I think it came from not paying much attention to what was going on in the world at the time. What I want to do now is to create some stories or art that can make people understand the cruelty of the world while still feeling the beauty of the world. For the future, I don't think I have the ability to change even a small part of society. I don't even think I'll be able to do what I want to do in the next five years. So I think I'm going to focus on what I'm doing now.