The New Math of the Asian-American, Model Minority

Being Chinese in America, born and ultimately raised in the Reagan 80’s, I was reminded of the constant, familial/cultural pressure to work/study hard, so as to enter into a university–prestigious especially, so as to presumably get a lucrative career, hence the model minority mythology. So as many outside observers may see, it’s not something easily accomplished–in spite of my ethnic/racial background… especially with my convoluted childhood history! And with my Dad, being ever the traditional Chinese father, i.e, using guilt trips and the psychological warfare practice of comparing one kid with another (sort of like being Coke vs. Pepsi), one can only fathom what it is like to not only try to measure up to the stereotype, however “positive” it may be, but likewise with getting over those familial issues, once entering into adulthood; I can testify to that!

But nearly a quarter century later since those shame-inducing public service announcements, trying to encourage then-kids like me to get into college, I’ve come to the love-hate conclusion concerning how complicated an investment (at best) a college education is; overrated at worst. When I was coming to age with not only my personal Christian faith, but likewise with my political beliefs, I’ve been made aware of the rampant, Marxist, atheist, post-modernist snobbish, politically correct nonsense that has permeated American, or shall I say, generally in Western-industrialized, university culture for almost a century.*

*some quote, possibly by V.I. Lenin, saying that it’s strategically better to recruit the educated classes to the cause for a workers paradise than say (ironically), the very peasant/working classes that is meant to take part and ultimately benefit from.

Had my parents, or pretty much all other FOB Asian parents, seen what has been taught in their children’s colleges (or better yet, even from the K-12 level), I am relatively assured that there’s absolutely nothing potentially, career-building with such classes as New Left Theory, critical of Judeo-Christian culture, capitalism/free markets, the basic work ethic, just so it can be replaced by solipsist thinking, entitlement culture, and above all, the nonsense over “human sexuality” courses! Everything mom and dad worked/struggled hard in vain, to get over to this side of the Pacific pond, is subverted/destroyed by a bunch of over-glorified, perpetually adolescent-pathetic hippies/hipsters, completely out of touch with the working every-man’s reality, and sheltered from the very outside world they ironically, condescended to the rest of (suburban) America for not getting in touch with! Think Ward Churchill, Bill Ayers, and if you want, Capistrano Valley High School, “European History” teacher, James Corbett! What sort of future the sons and daughters of Chinatown/Little Tokyo/ Little Saigon/Korea Town/ Little Manila and Little Phnom Penh should be looking forward to, if their professors/teachers constantly are ramming (Orwellian) newspeak, down their throats, brainwashing them into thinking that free market systems are evil, America is racist/imperialist-guilty, moral-relativism, the God-is-dead dogma (now that’s ironic!), humanity is the disease of nature/Mother Earth (a la, that misanthropic, junk science/ fairy tale book, “A World Without Us”), feel-good mediocrity (i.e, you don’t have to prove your “special-ness”), anti-Semitism… uh, excuse me: anti-Israeli Occupation of Palestinian land… and a “do-as-thou-art” amorality, supplanting the hard work ethic of the tried-and-true earlier Asian generations–with an entitlement mentality, conveniently forgetting the reality that in order to have all the fun luxuries socialism claims to be spreading (to the little guys/gals everywhere), something has to come from someplace/somewhere, with painful, sometimes even messy hard work, risks (i.e, one can’t get something out of nothing–even with “Star Trek” -caliber, replicator technology).