Some Asian Americans bristle at Andrew Yang’s use of stereotypes

Some Asian Americans bristle at Andrew Yang's use of stereotypes

Jenn Fang was home Thursday night, not really paying attention to the third Democratic debate, when she came across a video clip circulating on Twitter showing presidential candidate Andrew Yang casually declaring onstage, "I’m Asian, so I know a lot of doctors."

For Yang, it was a lead-in to a broader response on health care. But for Fang, it was grating.

"I found this part galling, because here he is sort of obtusely reinforcing the model-minority myth and model-minority stereotypes," said Fang, who runs the blog Reappropriate, where she writes about Asian American and feminist issues.Yang, perhaps the highest-profile East […]

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