[news] Asian Women Face 'Model Minority' Pressures

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Historically...Asian American women face conflicting sexual stereotypes that force many to juggle their identities between a seductive and treacherous dragon lady and the soft, lotus blossom character made famous by the century-old "Madame Butterfly" story, in which a submissive Japanese woman falls for a white man and commits suicide when she loses her love.

  


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