@Alluring
Do you believe institutional racism is real and rampant? If so, how to explain these Asians who clearly don't look like whites succeeding in the West?
Yes and no.
They came primarily as economic immigrants, and they have a culture of hard work. So, the institutional racism is not meant to be directed at them, but nowadays they exceed so much that they are capped off and limited.
They also deal with overt racism like any other POC but they tend to ignore it. It's important to mention that many Asians are white-aligned or white-adjacent, they aren't loud about their racism like blacks and have profited off being the "model minority." They are the POC group that racists will use to justify as to why racism doesn't exist. Note that many white nationalists or racists actually like Asians, although superficial, because they don't complain.
Overall, their experience can't be compared to refugee/migrants or enslaved people. But, I believe that their community work ethic is what preserved to make them the group they are today. But, blacks, hispanics, and all other POC are disenfranchised communities who tend to use racism as a clutch to avoid hard work.
