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=== Asians === In '''Canada''', [[Asian Canadian]]s are viewed as a model minority, which whether seen as a 'positive' or 'negative' supports the stereotype of Asian Canadians as solely driven by professional and economic success, dehumanizing them in comparison to other groups.<ref>{{cite journal|author-last=Kim|author-last2=Kirpalani|author-first=Sunny|author-first2=Amrit|title=The Model Minority Myth: a threat to Asian Canadians in higher education|date=July 2022|journal=Canadian Medical Education Journal|volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=79β80 |doi=10.36834/cmej.74344|pmid=35875434 |pmc=9297252 }}</ref> The majority of this is aimed toward the East Asian and South Asian communities.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Gordon Pon|year=2000|title=Importing the Model minority discourse into Canada|journal=Sociology|volume=17|issue=2|pages=277β291|jstor=41669710}}</ref><ref name="KillModel">{{cite web|title=Killing the Model Minority Stereotype: Asian American Counter β Stories and Complicity|url=http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/kmms.pdf|access-date=15 September 2013|work=Sociology}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=GUILT, SHAME AND MODEL MINORITIES: HOW SOUTH ASIAN YOUTH IN TORONTO NAVIGATE THE CANADIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM|url=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/30100/1/Navaratnam_Sangeetha_201111_MA_thesis.pdf|access-date=18 April 2019|work=Sociology and Equity Studies in Education}}</ref> In '''[[New Zealand]]''', [[Asian New Zealanders]] are viewed as a model minority due to attaining above average socioeconomic indicators than the New Zealand average, though the phenomenon remains small, underground, and not as widespread compared with their American counterparts.{{Citation needed|date=June 2018}} In a study of a popular New Zealand [[The Evening Post (New Zealand)|newspaper]], articles "never portrayed the [[Chinese New Zealanders|Chinese]] as a model minority that silently achieves" and this was "not in line with overseas research, suggesting that this stereotype merits further analysis".<ref>{{cite web|author=G. Hannis|title=From Yellow Peril to Model Minority? A Comparative Analysis of a Newspaper's Depiction of the Chinese in New Zealand at the Start of the 20th and 21st Centuries|url=http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1302&context=apme|access-date=15 September 2013|work=Education|publisher=Massey University, New Zealand}}</ref>
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