Model minority

Model minority refers to a minority ethnic, racial, or religious group whose members visably achieve a higher degree of success than the population average. This success is typically in income, education, and related factors such as low crime rate and high family stability.

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Minority - Ethnic - Racial - Religious - Group - Success - Average - Income - Education - Crime rate - Family stability

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Some sociologists have argued that the greater success of such groups over the majority group, often in the face of historical discrimination, indicates supposed institutional racism is not the root cause of socioeconomic disparity between ethnic groups.

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Sociologists - Majority group - Discrimination - Racism - Socioeconomic disparity - Ethnic group

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While the term 'model minority' is rarely used outside the USA, and then usually only to refer to Asian Americans, the concept is also present in other areas of the developed world. Yale professor Amy Chua introduced the term market dominant minorities to describe this pattern (World on Fire, 2003).

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USA - Asian Americans - Developed world - Yale - Amy Chua - Market dominant minorities - World on Fire

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