The Model Minority stereotype

When talking about the Model Minority stereotype, Ono and Pham argue that
it represents an ambivalent stereotype of both admiration and fear. Sunaina
Maira also points to ambivalence within “imperial feelings” that continue to be
experienced even in liberal-minded groups who support multiculturalism. Analyze
one of these examples of ambivalence and how it might resonate with your own positionality
with the US, which as we have been discussing, is both an imperialistic and
democratic nation. As Stuart Hall insists, positionality is central to identity
and representation. How do you culturally position yourself and navigate living
within a nation that maintains its imperial force and where values and
practices of liberal democratic multicultural inclusion can yet maintain
imperialist hierarchical power structures and cultural values.