we fight against model minority myth- to yell out, it's a myth, goddam*it.
say it isn't true. it does not represent the whole asian american community.
it's a sick myth created to shame other minorities, to reaffirm the american dream (ah).
i was reading the first few pages of ralph ellison's invisible man, and then
cold sweat and hair on my back stood up and i realized
--> i am recreating the very thing i thought i stood against, i keep putting on the stereotypical costume and mask, i continue to bow in front of all the things that hold me (and my ancestors and perhaps children in the future) down.
i AM a model minority. it isn't a myth.
and can i say that i am being responsible? or is the well that i have fallen into something that i dug myself into?
once, i thought i could change from within.
but i think i will die before i poke anything.
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