To clarify: African-American refers to a people with ancestors from the CONTINENT of Africa, and Latino hardly referst to one ethnic group (Mexican, Puerto Rican, etc).

Furthermore, Asian Americans are not successful in the employment sector. A white college graduate earns more than an Asian college graduate with equal training/knowledge in the same field. Also, Asian Americans face a glass ceiling (as do other minorities and women) when it comes to job promotions and often find that they do not rise up the corporate ladder, even when they are very qualified. In fact, Asian Americans with more years of schooling have a lower return in terms of income in comparison to a white individual with less years of schooling.

What you failed to see from the article is that Asian Americans are being subsumed under a blanket category imposed on them by the dominant, hegemonic culture of America, which doesn't allow for diversity and uniqueness among the individual Asian ethnic groups.

Not all Asian groups come even close to the myth of the model minority, and for people to assume so is dangerous. So what sacrifice of success are you referring to?

Americans have rallied together many a time to fight for the rights they feel they deserve that the government is not giving them--from the American Revolution to the Woman's right to vote to Free Speech. Why should the collective strength of minorities coming together be any different?
 

Because Asians have nothing to gain from it. I don't see how not getting a degree is going to help them, even if they do face challenges when they get one.

I don't know how lame an asian culture has to be to be utterly destroyed by a vague category on college applications. It's not the job of everyone else in the country to help define your culture.