But he has a deep understanding of the historical and socio-cultural roots of anti-Black sentiment in Asian immigrant communities. 'Model minority' mythChuong Trinh, a 26-year-old Vietnamese Montrealer, is intimately familiar with the negative stereotypes some Asian community members have about Black people in North America. "[Those stereotypes] kind of get proliferated in the Asian community a lot, and I think my parents aren't any different in that sense." Vietnamese Montrealer Chuong Trinh, centre, says he's focusing on working with other young Asian Montrealers to support the Black Lives Matter movement. While he hasn't gotten too far with his parents, Trinh says, he has taken his fight against anti-Black attitudes to others in the Asian community — most recently, mobilizing fellow Asian Montrealers under the hashtag #Asians4BlackLives.

Source: CBC News June 15, 2020 09:56 UTC