So what is the model minority?
They refer to a minority group, which can be racial, religious or ethnic, and that they achieved a higher degree of success than the average person.
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The model minority in Singapore, my home country, would be the Chinese Christians. Chinese make up three quarters of the Singapore population, but the Chinese people who practise Christianity only make up one third of all Chinese. So even though they could speak in the same language as the rest of the Chinese, because of what they believe, they picked up Confucian-Christian ethics to make them more motivated, more well-connected and more successful than the rest of the population.
My family does not fall in the group. We, like two-thirds of the Chinese populations, believe in traditional Chinese deities. We aren't poor, but we aren't too well-off or socially active as our Chinese Christian counterparts do.
There must be something in the water people use to spray people in baptism, I thought.
No. It isn't, isn't, isn't the case.
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I was in one support group for special needs people. I am not sure why was I there. I just needed to do something to do in life. I lost interest in pure medicine alone, that my sisters and parents did. I was interested to be a clinical psychologist. So I did unglamorous volunteer work in the group.
The heads, leaders of the group are all Chinese Christians. I only see three non-Christians there. They're all Chinese but they're outcasts. But I found something more shocking in the group. Mind me if I share it.
They're also split along fissure lines of exclusivity. They're so close-minded, they think they're right and others are wrong. They insist that no people should reveal their autism (because autism is so poorly understood, and then mocked in Singapore. Fair enough, at least, for now.) They do politicking. In other words, they use several less able members, manipulate them for influence, to do things that gain their favor over the others, for personal pursuits. And most important of all, they have no support structure to enable members to use their innate talents, to add value to society's good. What do they do? Just watch movies, watch this, watch that. No discussions. Oh yes, we did have one discussion session. That went awry somehow...
So end up, members chase each other out. And finally, things get so bad. There are only three, four members in the end, excluding me, because I'd been chased out. And even amongst them, they reported fundamental disagreements, ideological differences. They have to use many, many (3) NTs to moderate our forum, where they previously rejected NT intervention by parents and even friends.
I call this group hypocritical, hyperbolically nonsensical, and simply stubbornly ineffective.
I believe the time used in the group can be used for other pursuits. Like, for example, building a sister forum for our great Aspies Central forum here (which I can't have the energy now, due to previous nasty experience that won't shake off). And perhaps really do better to refine my interests. Should I have totally given up on the health side of things and do art and design, since the nastiness of human politics and even knowedge of autism irk me so much?
Little wonder that we're stuck in our hole of unemployment in Singapore. Or even, at best, underemployment. Because we had never given ourselves the chance to show real effective leadership beyond what leadership schools teach us, for our own little community.
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Looking at things in the other Anglophone countries, we should know better.
In these countries, autistic people have real power. They organize political rallies to vote in Members of Parliaments favorable to their cause. They get advanced vocational and academic degrees. Most important of all, they concentrate their energies on getting things done, plus self improvement.
Of course there are publicized failures. We don't try to repeat them.
As Singapore straddles between the Anglophone and Sinosphere, a word has to be chipped in for the East Asians.
The East, maybe even South Asians, present tremendous opportunities for Singapore autistic professionals and people, to shine and inspire for success.
Unfortunately, we can't bring ourselves together. We remain divided. So we're three years behind our own development in thinking in that line.
And poverty isn't the issue. Singapore has a higher GDP per capita than any country in East or South Asia.
We just can't unite.
But if we do, things will be better... And brighter for all of us in East and even South Asia.
Already, Singapore is losing the critical mass to achieve all these.
In the best organizations, those outcasts, no matter how good they are, will be cast away to seas of unknown.
They just simply rot, or wait to move to the next shores.
As I had drifted through many groups - I know. They aren't great anyway, they don't value-add to me as much as I can't value-add to them. It's not just attitude - it's altitude of where we both are, relatively.
If I sounded as if I have a bad attitude... Well, I can always do many, many more things.
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My solution?
Stop bickering.
And get working.
If not, don't end that, start complaining.
They refer to a minority group, which can be racial, religious or ethnic, and that they achieved a higher degree of success than the average person.
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The model minority in Singapore, my home country, would be the Chinese Christians. Chinese make up three quarters of the Singapore population, but the Chinese people who practise Christianity only make up one third of all Chinese. So even though they could speak in the same language as the rest of the Chinese, because of what they believe, they picked up Confucian-Christian ethics to make them more motivated, more well-connected and more successful than the rest of the population.
My family does not fall in the group. We, like two-thirds of the Chinese populations, believe in traditional Chinese deities. We aren't poor, but we aren't too well-off or socially active as our Chinese Christian counterparts do.
There must be something in the water people use to spray people in baptism, I thought.
No. It isn't, isn't, isn't the case.
--- --- ---
I was in one support group for special needs people. I am not sure why was I there. I just needed to do something to do in life. I lost interest in pure medicine alone, that my sisters and parents did. I was interested to be a clinical psychologist. So I did unglamorous volunteer work in the group.
The heads, leaders of the group are all Chinese Christians. I only see three non-Christians there. They're all Chinese but they're outcasts. But I found something more shocking in the group. Mind me if I share it.
They're also split along fissure lines of exclusivity. They're so close-minded, they think they're right and others are wrong. They insist that no people should reveal their autism (because autism is so poorly understood, and then mocked in Singapore. Fair enough, at least, for now.) They do politicking. In other words, they use several less able members, manipulate them for influence, to do things that gain their favor over the others, for personal pursuits. And most important of all, they have no support structure to enable members to use their innate talents, to add value to society's good. What do they do? Just watch movies, watch this, watch that. No discussions. Oh yes, we did have one discussion session. That went awry somehow...
So end up, members chase each other out. And finally, things get so bad. There are only three, four members in the end, excluding me, because I'd been chased out. And even amongst them, they reported fundamental disagreements, ideological differences. They have to use many, many (3) NTs to moderate our forum, where they previously rejected NT intervention by parents and even friends.
I call this group hypocritical, hyperbolically nonsensical, and simply stubbornly ineffective.
I believe the time used in the group can be used for other pursuits. Like, for example, building a sister forum for our great Aspies Central forum here (which I can't have the energy now, due to previous nasty experience that won't shake off). And perhaps really do better to refine my interests. Should I have totally given up on the health side of things and do art and design, since the nastiness of human politics and even knowedge of autism irk me so much?
Little wonder that we're stuck in our hole of unemployment in Singapore. Or even, at best, underemployment. Because we had never given ourselves the chance to show real effective leadership beyond what leadership schools teach us, for our own little community.
--- --- ---
Looking at things in the other Anglophone countries, we should know better.
In these countries, autistic people have real power. They organize political rallies to vote in Members of Parliaments favorable to their cause. They get advanced vocational and academic degrees. Most important of all, they concentrate their energies on getting things done, plus self improvement.
Of course there are publicized failures. We don't try to repeat them.
As Singapore straddles between the Anglophone and Sinosphere, a word has to be chipped in for the East Asians.
The East, maybe even South Asians, present tremendous opportunities for Singapore autistic professionals and people, to shine and inspire for success.
Unfortunately, we can't bring ourselves together. We remain divided. So we're three years behind our own development in thinking in that line.
And poverty isn't the issue. Singapore has a higher GDP per capita than any country in East or South Asia.
We just can't unite.
But if we do, things will be better... And brighter for all of us in East and even South Asia.
Already, Singapore is losing the critical mass to achieve all these.
In the best organizations, those outcasts, no matter how good they are, will be cast away to seas of unknown.
They just simply rot, or wait to move to the next shores.
As I had drifted through many groups - I know. They aren't great anyway, they don't value-add to me as much as I can't value-add to them. It's not just attitude - it's altitude of where we both are, relatively.
If I sounded as if I have a bad attitude... Well, I can always do many, many more things.
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My solution?
Stop bickering.
And get working.
If not, don't end that, start complaining.
