East Asians Are Misrepresented In The Media

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According to Huh 2016, East Asian communities have long been battling with ‘model minority’ perception, which can be explained as a minority group considered achieving a higher degree of socioeconomic success than the population average. East Asians are known for ‘tenacious work and family values’, which are positive but they restrain the ability of each unique East Asian to be perceived as an individual. Therefore, each member of the East Asian community is trademarked with the image of the whole group that he/she belongs to rather than who he/she really is. This problem leads to the fact that Asians are misrepresented in the media through inaccurate and stereotype lens (Huh 2016). Therefore, this research aims to discover how to undermine

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