Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) have come to be defined in contemporary America as the "good" minority that seeks advancement through quiet diligence in study and work and by not making waves—the minority that other American minorities should seek to emulate. In reality, AAPIs are a diverse group of various ethnicities and cultural backgrounds; no simple generalization can characterize the group as a whole. Furthermore, despite the "model minority" stereotype, AAPIs also face academic challenges and socioeconomic hardships.
To help dispel the "model minority" myth, College Board Advocacy released "Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders—Facts, Not Fiction: Setting the Record Straight " in June 2008 in collaboration with New York University's National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education (CARE). The report provides empirical data to refute prevailing fictions about this group of students, and explains how the "model minority" stereotype can be harmful: in assuming universal academic strength, teachers and counselors often do not extend help to their AAPI students to the extent they do other students.
Although this types of stereotypes about different minorities are discussed privately amongst groups, these stereotypes can have adverse effects on the performance of the said minority and on those around them. It must be understood that the success rates of all minorities are dependent on their personal goals and ambitions.
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