Extension
For South Asian Men
The Identity Between the Model Minority and Yourself
The model minority is a label. The man you are is a person. This is where you name him.
For the South Asian American man — Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, or of other South Asian heritage — working through the intersection of South Asian cultural expectations and model minority assumptions in America
The Name It First Experience
South Asian men in America navigate a specific set of assumptions — about intelligence, ambition, passivity, and what success looks like for a man whose parents immigrated and sacrificed for it. Those assumptions don't fit everyone who carries them. This workbook is about naming who you are — what you want, what you're choosing, what South Asian identity means to you personally versus what it means to everyone else. You leave with The South Asian Man's Identity Charter — a named account of who you are on your own terms.
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Sample questions
- Name one assumption about who you are or what you should become that arrived with your South Asian identity before you ever chose it.
- What do you want for your own life that doesn't fit inside the definition of success your family sacrificed to make available to you?
- What pattern do you notice in how you navigate model minority expectations — and what do you notice when you ask whether you're living your life or performing it?
Research basis
Phinney (ethnic identity development) / Berry (acculturation framework) / Nishina (South Asian American identity development) / Crenshaw (intersectionality) / Connell (masculinities theory)
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