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Pardon my ignorance, but what is a "Golden Minority?"
by unhappyhippie 13y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but what is a "Golden Minority?"
- danso 13y agoI was going to joke about how you must not have grown up in the 80s-90s, but doing a Google search just now, I see that I might have used the wrong term... The better known term is "model minority," in which Asians, in America, were held up as what minorities should be like: smart, hard-working, non-confrontational to the status quo: http://www.nationaljournal.com/thenextamerica/education/asians-often-burdened-as-model-minority-20120511 http://www.nationaljournal.com/thenextamerica/education/asia... I swear "golden minority" was also a common term, because Asian-Americans were perceived as achieving toward high-pay professions (doctors, engineers, etc) and, well, we're also referred to as "yellow"...but there seem to be very usages of "golden minority" and Asian