Students reject the ‘Model Minority Myth’

By Areeba Kamal. “You’re Asian, of course you’re good at math!”
This is the statement that Hannah Zhang, a sophomore at Columbia University, says she heard constantly growing up.
“I’m Chinese American, studying economics at an Ivy League school, good at piano, class valedictorian from high school. I guess you could say I fit the model minority myth,” she says. More...