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How did the perceptions of chinese immigrants affect other immigrant groups? so, if we look at the article, it states, as the chinese american community has become more diverse in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, chinese americans have been received in conflicting ways.
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So, beginning in the 1960s, the image of chinese americans began to change.
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Chinese and japanese americans came to acquire the status of the model minority.
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They were seen as economically and academically successful, and they were said to have achieved success the old -fashioned way, through hard work and perseverance.
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So, as the model minority, it would have affected other immigrant groups.
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So, the other immigrants would have seen chinese and japanese as the model minority, and would have tried to work harder to become like these model minorities.
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However, later on in the 1980s, chinese americans were targeted by hate crimes.
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This is because of the fact that it was believed they were taking jobs away from the americans that were already living in america.
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So, the article states, it was not uncommon for auto workers and the media to blame japanese imports for detroit's economic woes, for example.
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And then in 1982, vincent chin, a chinese american engineer, was beaten to death by two white auto workers, who equated him with japan's increasing power in the auto industry...