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The Harmful Myth Of Asian Superiority By Takaki

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Takaki's essay on 'The Harmful Myth of Asian Superiority' is littered with statistics. He uses these stats to persuade the reader that Asians are not yet and still far away from being in par with Caucasians. He explains that Asians are perceived to have a higher income than Caucasians, but considering the majority of the Asian population in the US is concentrated in large, urbanized and expensive cities such as New York and California, they are barely making enough to get by in these cities. He goes on to explain various of other reasons why Asians are not "superior" than other races like how Asians make more money because they have more people in the family who are working and how the only reason Japanese Americans make a bit more than the

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