Similarities Between Model Minority And Better Luck Tomorrow

Both Model Minority and Better Luck Tomorrow deal with the same issue, the criminal behavior of young Asian Americans. Ben and his friends in Better Luck Tomorrow sell cheat sheets, commit larceny, and eventually involved in murder. Kayla in Model Minority also ends up imprisoned. By presenting Asian American teenagers being involved in crimes, these two movies defeat the Asian American identity as the model minority and show the opposite way of living. These movies both examine the portrayal of violent and immoral young Asian Americans, and at the same time, they have some differences as well. The teenagers in Better Luck Tomorrow are from a stable, upper middle-class neighborhood. Their aberrations are rooted from boredom and stress with