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One of the most detrimental effects of the model minority myth is that it treats all Asians in the US as a monolith, rendering invisible those that don't fit the narrative. In NYC, for ex, AsAms suffer from the highest poverty rate of any racial group nbcnews.to/2pQyNqg
Stories like Kwok's in the above article aren't terribly uncommon. 1 in 4 Asian American seniors live in poverty, and many spend their last years alone, without family.
The MMM is directly harmful to Asians in the US, bc the overwhelming attention to success stories masks the need to allocate resources to communities in need. Despite the high poverty rate in NYC, AsAms only received 1.4 percent of the city’s social service funds from 2002-2014.
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