american man in america. and as his history, it unearthed all of these feelings and issues that we had never really talked about that i had no idea he was struggling with. >> on the one hand, you can be told your exceptional and part of being told you're exceptional means you don't have normal challenges and you didn't help. >> exactly, exactly. that is the model minority myth. it is the idea that asian americans are pegged as the good immigrants. and there comes with that all of these, sort of, signifiers. these suggestions of exceptionalism. but there are many problems with the stereotype.