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Statistics are not unbiased objective information, they are presented in ways to construct a narrative. My post aims to present MY narrative on this, it not only serves to correct the Model Minority Myth yall love to impose on Asian Americans, but also to show how the eligibility of voters and those who actually did vote has a big influence on who gets to have a say in America.

Monoracial non-Hispanic/Latino white Americans

In 2024, monoracial non-Hispanic/Latino white Americans form 56.1% of the US population, ~157.37mil in total.

Of these, 76.3% (of total) reported as registered eligible voters & 69.2% reported voting. Of these; 55% voted Red, which is ~38% of total white non-Hispanic/Latino Ams (~59.8 mil/324 mil of US pop).

Total Red white non-Hispanic Ams/US pop: 18% of the US pop, were white non-Hispanic/Latino Americans who voted Red.

Proportionally, 38 in every 100 white non-Hispanic/Latino Americans encountered are red voters.

Hispanic/Latino Americans

In 2024, Hispanic/Latino Americans form 20% of the US population, ~47mil in total.

Of these, 42.8% (of total) reported as registered eligible voters & 35.2% reported voting. Of these; 48% voted Red, which is ~16.9% of total Hispanic/Latino Ams (~7.94 mil/324 mil of US pop).

Total Red Hispanic/Latino Ams/US pop: 2.4% of the US pop, were Hispanic/Latino Americans who voted Red.

Proportionally, 17 in every 100 Hispanic/Latino Americans encountered are red voters.

Monoracial Black Americans

In 2024, monoracial Black Americans form 13.5% of the US population, ~33.79mil in total.

Of these, 64.8% (of total) reported as registered eligible voters & 55.1% reported voting. Of these, 15% voted Red, which is 8.27% of total Black Ams (~2.79mil/324mil of US Pop).

Total Red BlackAms/US pop: 0.86% of the US pop, were Black Ams who voted Red.

Proportionally, 8 in every 100 Black Americans encountered are red voters.

Monoracial Asian Americans

In 2024, monoracial Asian Americans form 7% of the US population, ~17.7mil in total.

Of these, ~47.1% (of total) reported as registered eligible voters & 41.1% reported voting. Of these; 34% voted Red, which is ~14% of total AsAms (~2.48 mil/324 mil of US pop). (The stats frequently quoted (40% of Red AsAms), originate from a dataset for “Asian and Other Ethnicities”, not just Asian; so even that is questionable.)

Total Red AsAms/US pop: 0.7% of the US pop, were AsAms who voted Red.

Proportionally, 14 in every 100 Asian Americans encountered are red voters.

21.86% of USA decided your fate, and that of the rest of the world, in 2024. Only ~47% of AsAms were eligible to vote, and only 41% did vote; this cannot represent how the whole would answer to who they choose to lead this country.

Every racial group contributed more to Trump being in office than Asian Americans did. Whoever wanna play like Asians had some landslide hand in the voting results, even if racial proportions were used to suggest otherwise.

To me every red voter is condemnable, I wouldn’t want to walk into a room of 100 Asian Americans and know that 14 are red voters. But the fact is that you’d only encounter 7 Asian Americans for every 100 USAmericans, and 14% of that is 7 MAGA Asian Americans in 1000 USAmericans. That’s 7 too many, regardless.

But if you wanna play numbers, this is the turnout.

Sources:

https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/tables/p20/587/vote02_2024_4.xlsx

https://aapidata.com/blog/aapi-turnout-dipped-in-2024-remains-above-2016-levels/

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/25/asian-voters-in-the-u-s-tend-to-be-democratic-but-vietnamese-american-voters-are-an-exception/

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/01/10/key-facts-about-asian-american-eligible-voters-in-2024/

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/RHI225225

https://blackdemographics.com/

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/fact-sheet/facts-about-the-us-black-population/

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patterns-in-the-2024-election/

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/05/20/an-early-look-at-black-voters-views-on-biden-trump-and-election-2024/

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045225

every group within the poc umbrella deserves larger generalised poc protections against whiteness, but every group also deserve protections tailored to our specific singular group, which surprise surprise may often be attacked by malicious actors, ethnosupremacists and white supremacist puppets from other poc groups too.

and no i dont support using ‘poc’ in a way that reifies model minority myths, or any such contextual usage that wants to suggest my group of peoples experience “less than” other groups of poc.

Firstly, I grew up in SEAsia; and I know for a fact that non-Sino SEAsian families did not discipline their children in the same way of culturally ingrained lessons of pain. Where they carried out the same actions it was not justified by culture but was seen as abuse, or as mirroring Chinese methods of hardcore militant discipline. I know this because it is a running joke amongst non-Chinese SEA peers that if they misbehaved, their parents would send them to the closest Chinese tiger mom to be disciplined, as well as the trauma of witnessing Chinese families disciplining their children in public.

So I will be speaking primarily about the Chinese view on pain and discipline. If you’re one of those Chinese kids who was beaten harshly, was held down or pinned while getting beaten, had one or more articles of clothing removed to be beaten, or else was coerced into being beaten by something else being threatened (opportunity, rights, social standing, more hurt or shame, another loved one); this is specifically for you.

Something that was always said to me before and after every beating, as though saying it enough would come true, is 打就是爱. It means “hitting is love”; specifically in the context of discipline. It was explained to me that if my parents did not love me, they would not teach me the way to be a properly behaved person. And that way; is through pain. ( Also pain from one’s parents is “better than” pain from a stranger/society ).

Being disciplined in Chinese culture is seen as a virtue, and disciplining one’s children is seen as a duty to the collective. Contrasting Western individualism and other cultures, Chinese culture scores as one of the highest internationally, for collectivistic culture and power differential index [look it up if you don’t know what this is]. The individual’s worth, their values, behaviour, productivity, is all measured by how well they contribute to communal harmony, most especially at the expense of individual desires. Acceptance for, and upholding the power hierarchy and differences, keeps Chinese society in order. This is how it has been for many millenniums. [Again no black/white judgment on this.]

There is a word for being “home taught” called 家教; and this is what ‘Being Disciplined’ refers to. Not the autonomy of self-control, but the internalisation of lessons taught at home, owing to the parents. Misbehaving children are by extension, the public humiliation of their parents, and indicative of parental failure to discipline them; there are pros and cons to this expectation.

The Pros; one might assume this alleviates pressure from the child to be responsible for behaviours and mannerisms, and directs it to adults. They may assume by extension, some understanding of conditioning, systemic and environmental factors.

The Cons is that the Pros doesn’t actually occur. Why? Because when a child misbehaves, the public shames the parent, the parent cracks down on the child for both shaming them and for acting out. The inflicted pain is a personal vendetta AND “disciplinary” method. Also, that for the layman—education and awareness of conditioning, systemic & environmental factors impacting behaviour is relegated to bloodline inferiority, moral failure or divine punishment, as opposed to sociopolitical marginalisation. Therefore while pressure is oriented to parents to discipline, the pressure to BE DISCIPLINED is still on the child.

A lot of Chinese children downplay how this abuse has shaped them, and like their predecessors they credit their ‘well-socialised behaviours’ to this cycle of disciplinary methods. It is a gift, a reward from their parents, a hallmark of love. They joke about it, and when they talk about other peoples who are poorly socialised, they bring up how they must be beaten more as children.

I think because they may not be outwardly violent peoples, they believe they haven’t been damaged by this, and therefore it is a flawless method. And yet the wound is telling in how this is the only way a lot of us can conceive of socialisation or discipline, and we defend it as culture when its more than likely also trauma from the consequences of what would occur to someone deviant from the collective culture. It is telling in how we discuss children, what we would readily inflict on them to fit our expectations, what we expect from them and thus what we expect of our inner child.

And more than that we expect them to understand, to take it without crying; and some of us were punished for expressing pain or emotion when we were beaten. It is forbidden to make the person inflicting pain on you, realise or acknowledge your suffering as expressed by you. Yet it is fine for them to do it TO cause pain unto you. You do not even have the autonomy of expressing that pain.

It keeps things “impartial” so to speak, easily deflects from claims of sadism. And an impartial Chinese parent who would inflict pain on their own child for the sake of society, is glorified as self-sacrifice, while the child and their body is a means to fulfil such a moral.

Recently, I’ve reflected some on how this impacts my sexual behaviours as well, especially noting the study on how the same parts of the brain in a child lights up whether they’re being hardcore beaten, or experiencing sexual abuse. Specifically, how sex may be used as punishment for myself to manufacture a detached relation, as self-harm, to dissociate ( so that the pain would pass quicker ) , as a form of self-abuse, masochism, specifically to give up bodily autonomy and allow others to use my body to satiate their anger. To replaying allowing someone close to me to cross my boundaries, and do as they wish to my body, to violate or inflict pain on me, and believing I deserve it bc I made them angry or hurt (personally or as a matter of general ‘righting a wrong’). Not deserving aftercare afterwards as the usual process was abuse > mocking me, forcing me to stop crying, stop the pity and comfort, I do not deserve it. I did not earn it.

And I think this bleeds into, stems from, and is a part of a larger “cultural” conditioning of how Chinese peoples seem to look at politics surrounding class and race. How we tend to talk about other groups and our own groups, especially regarding “home taught failures”. How quickly we become enraged at people expressing their pain, and lack the tools to hold our own, much less theirs. Because we were taught we should take our beatings soundlessly, tearlessly. We were taught not to give a name or a voice to our pain, by those who claimed to love us, who looked like us, who conceived us, who is of our blood, who is responsible for our existing here. And we’d allow it done to ourselves and our most vulnerable, so as to upkeep the status quo, even if it serves a dominant ethnic majority (white or otherwise— sideyeing SEAsian politics) or the upperclassmen (ie Ancient Chinese feudalism, wealthy people), or people in power (the group deemed normative & mainstream, authority, systems, institutions), against our interests.

Maybe its time we grieve and be aware of this in ourselves, so that we can show ourselves and our children the grace we deserve, be observant of the gaps and biases in our worldview and how this also then translates to how we may expect more rights for ourselves and for other marginalised peoples.