In the era of colonialism, Chinese Americans were represented as“Yellow Peril”, an absolutely negative inferior group of people; whereas with Civil Rights movements surging in the 1960s, Chinese Americans are entitled to“Model Minority”on account of their success supposedly to be based on their law-abiding, hard working, thrifty, submissiveness and even forbearance.
在殖民主义统治时期,华裔美国人被塑造成“黄祸”形象,是集所有负面性质于一身的低劣群体;而到了民权运动风起云涌的多元文化时代,华裔却因其遵纪守法、努力工作、克勤克俭、温顺忍让等中华民族的传统美德和在社会上取得的成就而被冠上了“模范少数族裔”的“美名”。
参考来源 - 从父辈到子辈N（名词） the power or alleged power of Asiatic peoples, esp the Chinese, to threaten or destroy the supremacy of White or Western civilization 黄祸; 指来自亚洲的（尤指来自中国的）对西方白人霸权的危胁