MoorNam #107: “model citizen” clever counterpoint.

Dumb and dishonest bullcrap. RTFA:

“THE 2.2 MILLION Indian Americans in the U.S. constitute a model minority, highly educated and well paid.”

What part of that led you to the conclusion that she “is talking about a specific subset of the Indian-American population”??

Very well said! I could not have put it down in a better fashion.

Thanks!

Regards,

Is that so?

Fight..Fight…Fight

Is that so?

I got a problem.Why? First, because you refer to yourself as a minority. Minority is, in part, a state of mind.

I define myself as a minority of one. And I consider myself to be a model citizen (education/money/social standing etc).

you define yourself by reference to a majority.

I consider America to be a collection of minorities of one.

If you call your ethnic group a model minority, then I got a problem

I don’t have a problem with individuals of any group calling themselves anything. Just as I consider myself a unit of one, I considers others’ right to surrender their individuality to an ethnic/caste/race/linguistic group identity. None of my business. Does not affect me in any way.

Do you have a problem with Jews calling themselves “The chosen people”? I don’t. Similiarly I don’t care if desis call themselves a model minority.

However, if anyone wants me to fit into their mold of how a model minority should be (because I’m desi), he/she will get a bloody nose.

M. Nam

As someone with a more mixed up SES upbringing, by the time I got to college I was wildly disappointed with the community consciousness of my desi peers. Like Cicatrix mentioned, everyone assumed anyone desi was affluent with doctor/engineer parents. I had grown up in a really poor, ethnically diverse, city in the Bay Area, and all my friends who had immigrated in the 80s/90s or had parents who were truckers, taxi-wallahs, farmworkers, etc., didn’t go to college. The idea of someone having to work to pay their way through school, or having grown up with family members who were undocumented, or living with 10 people in a small space was something my college peers associated with [poor] Latino families. Just because they didn’t grow up with this experience – and generally grew up in really affluent “white” neighborhoods -, they assumed that this reality didn’t exist. I was pretty shocked and disaffected.

And unrelated:

On one side is the moderates and on the other side is the conservatives sikh’s. The moderates are the one with tables and chairs in the temples and the conservatives are the ones where none.

Clueless, these “moderates” were “excommunicated” from the larger Sikh community. This wasn’t because of tables and chairs in the gurdwaras (not temples, thank you), this was because SOME people were sitting at chairs/tables and others were sitting on the ground. The reason behind the controversy was that, at langar, everyone is required to be at the same level (physically) as a representation of a casteless community in which everyone is valued and considered to be equal. So long as there is uniformity in accommodation, there is a lot of flexibility.

WTF? Outside? It’s 60 degrees on the left coast and i cannot find my Prada scarf.

Haha, it was 27 degrees outside 2 nights ago. I have never wanted to be on the east coast for winter, but apparently NYC/Boston with their 60/70 degree days are the place to be!