Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Young crusaders rail against those Asian-Americans who don't share their belief in saber-rattling as the way to realize progress. They use the label "apathetic" as their epithet of choice: "If you don't agree with us, you're just apathetic and unconcerned...
Increasing racial tensions isn't the only problem with aggressive Asian activism. It also imposes a false unity on the Asian community and a non-existent coherence on the Asian experience. What Asian-American activists fail to realize is that our community lacks the wealth of unifying experiences and coherent group narratives possessed by the other minority groups to which we like to compare ourselves...
...continue to stress our identity as Asian-Americans as the activists would like us to do, we encourage the outside (white) world to think of us as Asians first and Americans second. If we want to make it clear that Americans can be of any race or ethnicity, if we want to disprove the tired equation "American=white," we must continue to assimilate into the mainstream as we have successfully done up until...
...outdated model of strident minority activism may have worked in the '60s for Blacks and other groups, but it won't work today for Asian-Americans. The separatist paradigm, by stressing difference and discrimination, simply alienates our mainstream (white) allies and creates division within our ranks...
...time for us to move on in our methods of fighting lingering racism. Communal action and cheap, crass identity politics have nothing left to offer us. Totaling activism destroys the rich diversity of opinion within the Asian community. Individual achievement and the creation of strong role models are the true keys to Asian-American empowerment...