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Proposed Merger: Model minority & Model minority myth

These articles are BOTH discussing the same stereotype. And, as has been written in numerous places (Time Magazine 'How the Model Minority Myth of Asian Americans Hurts Us All'; CNBC 'How the model minority myth holds Asian Americans back at work - and what companies should do'; NPR ' 'Model Minority' Myth Again Used as a Racial Wedge Between Asians and Blacks; USC Pacifica Asia Museum 'Debunking the Model Minority Myth'; National Cancer Institute ' 'Model Minority' Stereotype'; 'Unraveling the Model Minority Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth' by Stacy J. Lee, and even more dangerously described as the flip side of the coin of the money-mad Jew/Asian rendered seemingly positive (Transgressions of a Model Minority by Jonathan Freedman; etc); and the list goes on, it is being addressed in most of the current discourse as a stereotype that is harmful to everyone, whether the group described as such or an outside group, whether it has become a self-identifier or is externally applied. What is the point of having two articles on the same topic? Why not merge them both into one under the subsection of stereotypes? Model Minority Myth and Model Minority Stereotype are two names for the same thing. Why not merge the content and state them as name variations? Thoughts? KnowTheManyHistories (talk) 23:16, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Model minority myth is essentially a content POV fork with plenty of WP:SYNTH and coatracking. --Altenmann >talk 09:26, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support merging any content that's usable and isn't duplicated. Given the somewhat essay-like POV nature of the "myth" article, it remains to be seen how much that actually is. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 🛸 04:23, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Statistics: Update

Statistics should probably be updated to include African countries, as an extremely high percentage of immigrants from various countries in Africa hold a Bachelor's degree or higher and the chart does not include this. KnowTheManyHistories (talk) 02:22, 14 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Race in America, sec 2

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 10 January 2024 and 24 April 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Ec2903 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Ec2903 (talk) 22:48, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: AMST 345 American Dream

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