“…To emphasize, the Asian American label represents a heterogeneous population from diverse cultural backgrounds with distinct languages, customs, religious, and philosophical differences (Kitano & DiJiosia, 2002; Lee & Zhou, 2015). This diversity continues to be swept under the model minority rhetoric (Mun & Yeung, 2022; Museus & Kiang, 2009). The body of research offers scant evidence of effort to distinguish subgroups within the population of their studies.…”