AAST 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter A: Nicholas Kristof, Model Minority, Juvenile Delinquency

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Asian American Studies
• Course: AAST 200
• Professor: Janelle Wong

Document Summary

Asian immigrants in recent decades are highly educated (more than the average. American) and are disproportionately doctors, research scientists, etc: obviously their children would flourish, but kids of working-class asian immigrants are also thriving and showing lots of upward mobility, difference is not driven by intelligence alone. Asian advantage is not intellectual-ness, but how it"s harnessed. Factors: east asian confucian emphasis on education. Likened to jewish emphasis on education and correlating success. Immigrant east asians try really hard to get into good school districts and make a lot of sacrifices for kids" education: asians believe a"s go to hard workers, not the smart kids. Results in a- as the asian f, and no room for b"s: strong 2-parent families. Less likely to sink into poverty and low divorce rate has good outcomes for boys: teachers" expectation higher expectations for those the teacher thought would succeed lead to higher success for those students self-fulfilling prophecy.