I'll clip an excerpt from my own book:Well partly that's because of how Chinese/Asians-Americans think. A lot of Chinese immigrants teach their children don't get involved in politics including voting. They're told to keep a low profile.
Tina Chen, a history professor at the University of Manitoba and a member of Skate Canada: Chen noted that the collective, uniform depictions of Asian characters imagine Asian American bodies as hard-working sources of labor, that are over-disciplined and no longer have their unique emotions. Asian Americans, according to the media, are “willing to always work hard, and people are always going to keep them working hard,” Chen said. “There’s a comfort in the idea that you can really discipline certain people (such as Asian people), and they will do what you want them to do,” she explained.
Iris Chang writes that as a middleman minority, the Chinese diaspora finds it easier to achieve economic and professional success than to acquire actual political power in their adopted countries. The mass media have projected contradictory images that either dehumanize or demonize the Chinese, with the implicit message that the Chinese represent either a servile class to be exploited (eg office cubicle slaves), or an enemy force to be destroyed.
From page 160 of my book.
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