TONIGHT: Live call-in show for Addicted to Race!
by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
Be sure to tune in TONIGHT for the latest Addicted to Race live call-in show. It’s tonight, October 17 at 10 pm Eastern U.S. time.
We’ll be discussing the dangers of positive stereotypes. Why are we so quick to agree with positive stereotypes about our ethnic or racial group? How can we begin to see that these positive stereotypes exist at the expense of other groups? Are positive stereotypes just as harmful as negative stereotypes?
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For those who can’t tune in for the live show, we will be recording the episode so you’ll be able to download and listen later on. To listen to a recording of last month’s live show, click here.
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
Vandia wrote:
I am listening to your discussion while typing the following few words. Thank you for shading light on these important issues.
In response to the article in Business Week about how successful Indian Americans are, I have to say this. There is no doubt Indian ( East) Americans are very successful. About two thirds of Indian American adults have at least a bachelors degree which is no easy feat. The problem arises when you try to make a wholesale comparison of success in the Indian American community and success in other like African American communities. Most Indians come to the U.S. on a H1B visa or other forms of visas for professionals and technical experts. This process itself selects the best educated individuals that India has to offer. If they are really representative of the Indian population and culture of success(as the article in Business Week argued) then why do we have hundreds and hundreds millions of people living in Poverty in India? The fact that you have arrived on U.S. soil armed with a Phd gives you a head start on almost every one.
Another way of looking at it is compare Africans who come through the same visa processes as Indians and African Americans. [There was one interesting peace on this on NPR]. Of course quite a significant proportion of these African immigrants are educated and successful. They too don’t represent the African population because they are a selected group. So as you rightly said in your broadcast, we should challenge these positive stereotypes as well as negative stereotypes.
Posted 17 Oct 2006 at 10:44 pm ¶