{"id":1497411,"date":"2022-05-30T19:14:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T23:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497411"},"modified":"2022-05-30T19:14:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T23:14:48","slug":"madison-avenue-stokes-racial-division-during-aapi-month-with-new-film-the-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/madison-avenue-stokes-racial-division-during-aapi-month-with-new-film-the-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison Avenue Stokes Racial Division During AAPI Month With New Film \u201cThe Myth\u201d\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmadison-avenue-stokes-racial-division-during-aapi-month-with-new-film-the-myth%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497411&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The global creative firm Wieden &#038; Kennedy (W+K) released a new film in May, just in time for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Myth\u201d is the perfect title for the new film promoted by the leading advertising firm. That\u2019s because the entire film is based on sophistry and a conspiratorial theory, resulting in a story that totally ignores Asian excellence, stokes racial tensions, and worse, outright promotes Anti-White animus.<\/p>\n<p>How, you ask, could I say such a thing?<\/p>\n<p>After all, the film starts with a little Asian girl next to an American flag. It\u2019s a story about belonging and inclusivity, right? That\u2019s a wonderful thing, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>If only that\u2019s what \u201cThe Myth\u201d was about: The American story of an immigrant population who, in spite of real hurdles like, yes, racism, have managed to achieve stratospheric success.<\/p>\n<p>Asians, in fact, have <a href=\"https:\/\/thepractice.law.harvard.edu\/article\/the-model-minority-myth\/\">the highest median income<\/a> of any group in America. Far higher than whites, who, we are constantly told, oppress and prevent other non-white groups from succeeding.<\/p>\n<p>But to understand the message of the film, \u201cThe Myth\u201d, you must first understand the underlying poisonous argument of its narrative. A lie emanating from the Left today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Myth\u201d Embraces A Conspiracy About White America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The argument being made by the Left and embraced in \u201cThe Myth\u201d is this: White people are the source of all ethnic tension and \u201cwhiteness\u201d is what truly ails us as a society\u2014specifically, those twin scourges of \u201cwhite privilege\u201d and \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>White people, the argument goes, are born racists by deign of their skin. And everything they have created\u2014all American laws, institutions, and policies\u2014are, therefore \u201csystemically\u201d racist and \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This is the basic premise of the Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the Diversity, Equity &#038; Inclusion (DEI) movement. In a nutshell, these movements claim the very fabric of America was woven together with the expressed purpose of oppressing people of color, to keep them in check. All done with the intention of preserving \u201cwhite power\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, when it comes to Asian Americans, CRT\/DEI\u2019s porous logic runs into the hard brick wall of reality. Asian excellence defies the assertion that \u201cPeople of Color\u201d (POC), can\u2019t succeed because of America\u2019s supposed \u201csystemic racism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Asian achievement throws a monkey wrench into the Left\u2019s \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d argument \u2013 a charge that\u2019s recently been mainlined into America\u2019s body politic by the Democratic Party.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Asian American success bears witness to the imperfect, but still enviable, U.S. system of individual rights, free markets, and equality before the law (not equity which demands equal outcomes).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This may explain why so many Asians immigrate here and are the fastest-growing ethnic group in the country.<\/p>\n<p>So, why is the progressive Left hellbent on dividing Americans into warring tribes? And what does it have to do with America\u2019s overachieving Asians?<\/p>\n<p>Conjure up a new pernicious myth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Myth\u201d Replaces A Positive Myth With A Negative One<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Myth\u201d attempts to blow up the stereotype of Asians as America\u2019s \u201cModel Minority\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>What is the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/breaking-taboo.org\/2021\/03\/03\/modelminority\/\">Model Minority<\/a>\u201d? It\u2019s essentially a common, positive stereotype about Asian-Americans:<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s an ethnic minority demographic group whose members are perceived to achieve a higher degree of socioeconomic success than the population average. This success is typically measured by income, education, low criminality, and high family\/marital stability\u201d [1]. Asian Americans are commonly seen as the \u2018model minority\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>While the film\u2019s title suggests the goal of the piece is to shatter the \u201cmyth\u201d of the \u201cModel Minority\u201d, bringing more nuance to the Asian-American story, it doesn\u2019t actually do that. It just swaps one \u201cmyth\u201d about Asians for another, replacing the supposed \u201cmyth\u201d of Asians being high-achievers with another more vile myth: that Asians are servile, agreeable, and \u201cmodel citizens\u201d, but only because white people made them this way.<\/p>\n<p>Dissecting The Not-So Subtle Racism In \u201cThe Myth\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The filmmakers of \u201cThe Myth\u201d, start the film, with a uniformed, forlorn-looking Asian girl, about to have her school picture taken. White hands from a man appear from out of frame, as he raises her chin to orient her for the photo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA model student\u2026 a model citizen\u201d, the narrator says as we watch this.<\/p>\n<p>The suggestion here, of course, is that she is already being molded into some perfect \u201cwhite standard\u201d by white people, even as a young girl.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s instructive to note that by constructing a new \u201cModel Minority\u201d myth, the film avoids any depiction of Asian success. Our female Asian hero is fatherless and low income. She is presented as servile, quiet, and agreeable\u2014all familiar Asian stereotypes\u2014and \u201cThey\u201d, she tells us, made her this way.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, this is the new \u201cmyth\u201d about Asians we are being asked to accept.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not the only troubling part.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Film Dripping With Anti-White Racial Animus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What reveals \u201cThe Myth\u201d to be anti-white? The narrator\u2019s monologue.<\/p>\n<p>Repeatedly she says \u201cThey\u201d did all these terrible things to her. \u201cThey\u201d made her a \u201cmodel citizen\u201d. \u201cThey\u201d wanted her to comport to some inauthentic cultural standard.<\/p>\n<p>The film continues with its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global creative firm Wieden &#038; Kennedy (W+K) released a new film in May, just in time for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) month. \u201cThe Myth\u201d is the perfect title for the new film promoted by the leading advertising firm. 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