The Asian American community in the contemporary period faces many racial relationship issues that are all interconnected with each other. Asian Americans are faced with the underpinnings of the “model minority” that supposedly whitens Asians into believing that there are no problems such as racism and poverty within the Asian American community. With this, they address the problem that there is no racial discrimination against Asian Americans due to the contextualization of the racial barrier within a “black or white” framework. Another problem they face is mainstream America's lack of awareness of the diversity of the Asian population, which causes many misperceptions and misdirected racial hatred towards certain ethnicities within the Asian race. This causes the pan-Asian community to not be supportive, not willing to support each other, in order to avoid racism by avoiding being associated with that ethnicity just because they look alike. This causes the Asian American community and the ethnic groups within it to be invisible to the American community as they lack organization and unification to make their voices heard. In class we learned about the 1992 Los Angeles riot which was the boiling point of civil anger from the pent-up minority in Los Angeles. With anger over the October stock market crash, the police brutality that was routine in Los Angeles, the never-corrected social and racial injustices, and the economic deprivation of minorities. All this was revealed by the final verdict which found the four white police officers not guilty of attacking motorist Rodney King. Within hours riots broke out and a civil uprising was in the making. The revolt needed an outlet. With racial conflicts between blacks and Koreans, the near… middle of paper… factors that make adoption of Asian and American children preferred. Many of these Americans are influenced to adopt from China, Vietnam, and South Korea due to the perception that Asian children are “beautiful,” that “there are no ugly Asian children” (Dorow 273). One of the biggest deciding factors in preferring to adopt an Asian over another non-white or white is the 'model minority' factor that "Asian communities have excelled in our society" (Dorow 274). They are more adaptable to American culture as their stereotypes are seen as "different". That “'True race and racism were sometimes reserved for blacks” (Dorow 280) which made them more favorable. Another favorable factor was the accessibility to many single, married, gay and lesbian candidates, the availability of healthy children and severe cultural and paternal attachments.