- 352 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Kramer brings together experts from a variety of minority backgrounds and from around the world to give their perspectives on the most pervasive ideology today, globalism. The basic premise is that a developed country is different from a developed community. They need not be mutually exclusive, but neither is it assumed that they are necessarily consonant. The various essays offer answers to such vital questions as What does it mean to become a 'global citizen'? and What does it mean to be a 'model minority' in a global economy? The process of becoming a mainstream person involves being first marginalized with the implication that something is inadequate about one's self. The process of assimilationism is manifested as various forms of enforced and/or rewarded acculturation. With the vast human migration currently underway, the notion of assimilation has become a global phenomenon. What is occurring, Kramer and his colleagues demonstrate, is a worldwide shift from the village milieu to the city lifestyle. This migration is seen as a polycentric and global phenomenon whereby the promised land is nowhere in particular, but, instead, a way of life and mindset, an urban lifestyle. This process is far more than a simple change in geography. Moving from the village to the cityscape involves a mutation in worldview and self-identity. Additional questions asked throughout the collection are What set of persuasive assumptions are leading the world in this direction? and What might be lost in the process? A provocative collection for scholars, students, and other researchers involved with development studies, multiculturalism, and urbanization.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Assimilation and the Model Minority Ideology
- 1. Gaiatsu and Cultural Judo
- 2. The Hidden Justification for Assimilation, Multiculturalism, and the Prospects for Democracy
- 3. Adopting the Caucasian "Look": Reorganizing the Minority Face
- 4. The Violence of Assimilation and Psychological Well-Being
- 5. The Ainu: A Discourse on Being Japanese
- 6. Headache and Heartbreak: The Elusiveness of "Model Minority" Status Attainment for African Americans
- 7. Being Disabled in Modern Japan: A Minority Perspective
- 8. Successful Indians: Benevolent Assimilation and Indian Identity
- 9. Abandoned People in Japan: The First Generation of Koreans in Japan
- 10. Old and New Worlds
- 11. Demythologizing the "Model Minority"
- 12. Asian Indians and the Model Minority Narrative: A Neocolonial System
- 13. A World of Cookie-Cutter Faces
- 14. Cosmopoly: Occidentalism and the New World Order
- Selected Bibliography
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Contributors