The mental health toll of being a model minority in 2020 Kimmy Yam © Provided by NBC News
In a year that saw the closing of businesses, skyrocketing unemployment and ongoing hate incidents concurrent with the public health crisis, the severity of Asian Americans’ struggles has been minimized at best or gone unnoticed at worst, experts say.
Many trace the invisibility of the community’s challenges, in part, to the mythical characterization of the racial group as compliant, successful and faring well tropes that have long obscured the reality of their struggles.
Asian Americans are the racial group least likely to reach out for help. And that fact coupled with an already existing belief that AAPIs don t struggle has only exacerbated pandemic-related problems for the community.
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