The Minority Model

The goal of the the conference is to raise the awareness of the mental health in the American society to foster the communication among individual that are suffering through the stigma. It is related to the problem we tried to tackle in class, the minority are expected to be silenced instead of trying to raise their voice. The key note speaker, Emily Wu Truong, also addressed the minority model concept problem. She was borned and raised in a model doctorate Asian American family, so she was expected to be a straight A’s student. With the high expectation, her family care more about the achievements than her actual inner feeling. Thus, she set an example of herself to prove that the concept of the model minority is just a generalizing assumption,