Asian Americans as Orientals and the Model Minority

This is a very short essay-style answer no more than (250-300 words).
Answer the question below.****Be sure to have a main argument or thesis,
supporting quotes, or other evidence from the texts as well as
analysis and evaluation of evidence and keywords.

Question: Why do authors that we studied argue that increasing
acceptance, appreciation, and inclusion of multicultural differences after World
War II does not result in challenging racial domination and racial
hierarchies established through US colonialism and imperialism? Analyze and
evaluate wartime, post-war, Cold War, and/or contemporary liberalism and its
impact on representations of Asian/Americans and/or Arab, Muslim, and South
Asians in two different historical contexts that we analyzed. How do authors
challenge or suggest that we might challenge this dominant gaze or narrative? Choose
two: Internment, liberal feminist belly dancing beginning in the 1970s, Cold
War and contemporary globalized Model Minorities (“Crazy Rich Asians” and/or
“Better Luck Tomorrow”), Refugee Exceptionalism. Focus on both
significant similarities and differences that you see. Be sure to cite, define,
analyze, and evaluate relevant keywords and concepts and to begin with an
arguable thesis (a thesis that requires evidence and analysis)

QUESTION: Take a stab at this difficult question for Extra
Credit. (3pts) (100 words minimum):
When talking about the Model Minority stereotype, Ono and Pham argue that
it represents an ambivalent stereotype of both admiration and fear. Sunaina
Maira also points to ambivalence within “imperial feelings” that continue to be
experienced even in liberal-minded groups who support multiculturalism. Analyze
one of these examples of ambivalence and how it might resonate with your own positionality
with the US, which as we have been discussing, is both an imperialistic and
democratic nation. As Stuart Hall insists, positionality is central to identity
and representation. How do you culturally position yourself and navigate living
within a nation that maintains its imperial force and where values and
practices of liberal democratic multicultural inclusion can yet maintain
imperialist hierarchical power structures and cultural values.

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