ith this knowledge we can try to lkprevent these actions from occorring in the future.The term model minority refers to the theory that Asian Americans have high educational attainmnet levels, high median family incomes, low crime rates, and absence of juvenile delinquency and mental health problems. According to Chan this perspective is not very accurate. I believe that Chan is correct about this theory.There are many critisicms of this theory. Many of the statistics used to get this information was taken out of context or looked at in the wrong way. For instance, both Japanese Americans and Chinese Americans had better education levels then Whites, and held more white collar jobs then whites,but their incom was much worse than whites. One of the reasons it appears that these minorities had high median family income levels was because more than one person of these minority families worked. Another reason why it seemed that they had high level of income was due to the fact that a large popluation of these minorities lived in large metropolitan areas where greater income is needed because cost of living are greater.(Part 2)Analyze the 1992 L.A. Riots fron a multi-racial perspective, Include in your discussion sources of African American and Asian American conflict.The L.A. Riots of 1992 began through feelings of resentment mostly toward Asian American store owners. Most of these store owners were Korean. Many African American and Hispanic inhabitants of L.A. believed that asian americans were taking all of their jobs and employment opportunites from them. Anger and frustration toward Asian Americans grew and eventually causes this riot. 2,597 bussiness were destroyed as a result of the riot. A good example of the conflict between the Asian Americans and African Americans is the death of Latasha Harling. Latasha was a fifteen year old black kid that was caught stealing from a korean market. The shopkeeper shot her in the he...
