Editing Asian Americans (section)

===Bamboo ceiling===
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This concept appears to elevate Asian Americans by portraying them as an elite group of successful, highly educated, intelligent, and wealthy individuals, but it can also be considered an overly narrow and overly one-dimensional portrayal of Asian Americans, leaving out other human qualities such as vocal leadership, negative emotions, risk taking, ability to learn from mistakes, and desire for creative expression.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sitemaker.umich.edu/psy457_tizzle/the_model_minority |title=Asian Americans and the Media: Perpetuating the Model Minority |first=Joy |last=Cheng |author2=Charles Hsieh |author3=Scott Lu |author4=Sarah Talog |work=Psychology 457.002 |publisher=University of Michigan |access-date=February 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517073256/http://sitemaker.umich.edu/psy457_tizzle/the_model_minority |archive-date=May 17, 2013 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Furthermore, Asian Americans who do not fit into the model minority mold can face challenges when people's expectations based on the model minority myth do not match with reality. Traits outside of the model minority mold can be seen as negative character flaws for Asian Americans despite those very same traits being positive for the general American majority (e.g., risk taking, confidence, empowered). For this reason, Asian Americans encounter a "bamboo ceiling", the Asian American equivalent of the [[glass ceiling]] in the workplace, with only 1.5% of [[Fortune 500]] [[Chief Executive Officer|CEOs]] being Asians, a percentage smaller than their percentage of the total United States population.<ref>{{cite news |title=Asians in America: What's Holding Back the "Model Minority?" |author=Sylvia Ann Hewlett |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/sylviaannhewlett/2011/07/28/asians-in-america-whats-holding-back-the-model-minority/ |newspaper=Forbes |date=July 28, 2011 |access-date=February 19, 2013 |archive-date=June 17, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617112934/http://www.forbes.com/sites/sylviaannhewlett/2011/07/28/asians-in-america-whats-holding-back-the-model-minority/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The bamboo ceiling is defined as a combination of individual, cultural, and organisational factors that impede Asian Americans' career progress inside organizations. Since then, a variety of sectors (including nonprofits, universities, the government) have discussed the impact of the ceiling as it relates to Asians and the challenges they face. As described by Anne Fisher, the "bamboo ceiling" refers to the processes and barriers that serve to exclude Asians and American people of Asian descent from executive positions on the basis of subjective factors such as "lack of leadership potential" and "lack of communication skills" that cannot actually be explained by job performance or qualifications.<ref>{{cite news |title=Piercing the 'Bamboo Ceiling' |author=Anne Fisher |url=https://money.cnn.com/2005/08/08/news/economy/annie/fortune_annie080805/index.htm |newspaper=[[CNN]] |date=August 8, 2005 |access-date=June 14, 2012 |archive-date=April 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422134327/http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/08/news/economy/annie/fortune_annie080805/index.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Articles regarding the subject have been published in ''[[Crains]]'', ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'' magazine, and ''[[The Atlantic]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Training executives to think globally |author=Anne Fisher |url=http://mycrains.crainsnewyork.com/blogs/executive-inbox/2011/11/training-executives-to-think-globally/ |newspaper=Crain's New York Business |date=November 18, 2011 |access-date=June 14, 2012 |archive-date=April 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412160022/http://mycrains.crainsnewyork.com/blogs/executive-inbox/2011/11/training-executives-to-think-globally/ |url-status=live }}<br />{{cite news |title=Is there a 'bamboo ceiling' at U.S. companies? |author=Anne Fisher |url=http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/07/asian-americans-promotion-us-companies/ |newspaper=Fortune Magazine |date=October 7, 2011 |access-date=June 14, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212000635/http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/07/asian-americans-promotion-us-companies/ |archive-date=February 12, 2012 |df=mdy }}<br />{{cite news |title=Study of the Day: There's a 'Bamboo Ceiling' for Would-Be Asian Leaders |author=Hans Villarica |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/05/theres-a-bamboo-ceiling-for-would-be-asian-leaders/257135/ |newspaper=[[The Atlantic]] |date=May 15, 2012 |access-date=June 14, 2012 |archive-date=March 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326122541/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/05/study-of-the-day-theres-a-bamboo-ceiling-for-would-be-asian-leaders/257135/ |url-status=live }}</ref>