Asian American Stereotypes

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Race, gender and class stereotypes of Asian Americans in the media, especially those described in popular movies, gave the unfair infection of what Asian Americans were “really” like to other Americans as well as to Asian Americans themselves. And usually, that image of Asian American has been shaped by people with little understanding of Asian people themselves and with little foresight into how such images would impact the Asian American community. Despite some harmless intentions of individual producers and filmmakers, narrow and unbalanced portrayals of Asians have traditionally been the norm in the entertainment industry. The early general statues of Asian immigrants could date from the mid-to-late 1800s of the first wave migrants for…show more content…
Due to the physical appearance, Asian in the media was always strange and loathsome. The appreciation of the beauty in the mainstream media couldn’t rank the Asian, especially Asian men, among the top. The media liked to remake the exterior of Asian to be more fashion and cool to cover the race identity. In the video She bangs (William Huang), Huang was primped as a funnyman, so he complained that he wanted to be himself. Another case about Asian was Abercrombie & Fitch T-shirts with the logo “Two Wongs make it White” and the Two Wongs implied the yellow face working in laundry as cheap labors. The differences between west and east were ordinary, while Western cultures are perceived or believed capable of change and modernization, Asian cultures are considered (in contrast) ancient (Rosen). White always had the privilege thought to despise the Asian culture and wanted to civilize them. The simple racism often came from the privilege thought and resulted in the stereotypes of Asian. Meanwhile, Asian as a ethnic race in American society, were lack of enough desire to correct the stereotypes and they didn’t have too much political right, only to know to work hard, study hard and come back home. The Asian also had not enough presence in media and they were forgotten by the mainstream…show more content…
Facing the stereotypes, Asian should be organized for chance to correct the wrong image. The media could try to set Asians as positive contributors to American society, portraying Asians as an integral part of the United States. More portrayals of acculturated Asian Americans speaking without foreign accents, show Asian in diverse jobs, like doctors, lawyers, therapists, educators and U.S soldiers. What’s more, Asian cultures should be depicted no more or less magical than other cultures and Asian could be the romantic leaders and the roles of the society. At last, if absolutely necessary for a film or TV project, anti-Asian racial slurs should be contextualized as negative and

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