I loved this video until Jeff Yang made the following comment: "Asian Americans, as the most savvy and in many cases the most educated...", imlpying exactly what about other racial groups?

the last poster was right. then again, jeff yang, while a good writer, ain't exactly the posterboy for actual progressive politics. it's a reaffirmation of the model minority all over again, cept coded: still overachieving and "savvy" but just more angry and pissed.

the problem with the "asian american" movement is how it so actively tries to distance itself from progressive "asian movements" in asia. given asian's historical construction as forever foreigner, the natural reaction by asian americans (highly privileged themselves in comparison to their "motherland" asian counterparts), has always been to actively disassociate with anything to do with "asia." yes, asia and asia america are different--but the danger of the disjunction is how in doing so it fails to recognize how western imperialism in asia has had and continues to have a mirroring effect on the experiences of asians outside of asia.