The cultural emasculation of Asian American men also serves a sociological function: being portrayed as docile and harmless makes it easier for the majority to accept academic and income-based over-performance without undue resentment.

Yuri Slezkine's the Jewish Century set out a taxonomy of the gender inversion characterizing "middleman minorities" wherever they appear throughout history

As many have noted, Asian immigrant over-performance has gotten so extreme that the culture has moved to curtail it. What's interesting is that it is being done in the name of a struggle against "white supremacy."

Japanese Americans were a group who arrived in large in the early 20th century. They prospered in America but were expropriated by the government during the 2nd World War.

They responded to this trauma by becoming intense assimilationists and intermarrying in large numbers such that today there are mixed Japanese than pure Japanese.

Their desire for the promise of full integration has largely been achieved, though to some degree they remain a "middleman minority" in the racial imaginary -- "perpetual foreigners" as the ethnic studies literature puts it

I met a mixed Japanese-American guy who was writing a book about the American navy whose intense militaristic patriotism and bluff American masculine demeanor was regarded in a gently bemused way by the artists and writers at the colony where he was working.

The initial and lingering bemusement everyone felt is an index of the extent to which Asians remain middlemen minorities in America