For the first time reading Trying to Find Chinatown by David Henry Hwang in 1996 which tells the story of two very contrasting culture perspectives of the Caucasian man Benjamin and the Chinese man Ronnie. The first time reading this, I was a bit taken off how rude Ronnie is at Benjamin and how unnatural the characters talk. As I read further and analyzed it, the brash arguments that Ronnie and Benjamin have are meant to be very exuberant and “in your face” about a culture that is not too often talked or represented as properly as they should be. To be honest, I am not as familiar with much works that are about or written by Asian Americans. There is not as much representation as for what is shown in media for the most part being stereotypes.…
There is this idea circulating that real ethnic media portrayals are not profitable. In Jessica Hegehorn’s article, “Asian Women in Film: No Joy, No Luck,” she describes how the film, The Joy Luck Club, based heavily on Asian culture which featured an Asian cast still managed to be extremely profitable and its significance in American culture is still prevalent today. In order for there to be a clear representation of ethnicities in Hollywood, there needs to be varying ethnic people writing the stories, producing them, directing them, and portraying them to the public. This idea that true ethnicities without their stereotypes are not profitable because they will be uninteresting to the public is simply not true.…
One of the common representational strategies that is used in My America… or Honk if you love Buddha is how some of the Asian Americans compare themselves to first-generation Asians. In the documentary, a Mr. Choi appears, and he is described as someone who works for a fortune cookie company, teaches martial arts, and does other tasks that are often associated with the “good oriental” image that Xing describes in “Cinematic Asian Representation.” Meanwhile, Victor Wong, who was born in San Francisco, describes himself as the “Wong that went wrong,” and is an Asian who actively takes part in the arts. Despite working together in the past, Choi practices the stereotypes that are often imposed on Asians, while Victor breaks these stereotypes.…
The video also mentioned that the stereotypes of all Asian Americans are seen as “honorary whites”, overachievers, and as a monitory group that does not…
Asian Americans and the Media by Kent A. Ono and Vincent N. Pham targets the topic of Asian American representations and their presence in media. The book provides a critical analysis of Asian American studies, film studies, communication arts and sciences for an overview of Asian American representations in broad media. Broad media consists of film, television, radio, music, the Internet and the like. The book attempts to understand constraints as a result of historical and contemporary dominant representations. Examples of Asian American representations are addressed in the book with a theoretical approach to make palpable the broad historical and contemporary field of representations in which the group finds themselves.…
Rebecca Oh from PBS Newshour, wrote the second article called, ““Sad Asian Girls” Collective takes on stereotypes of Asian Women.” Esther Fan and Olivia Park at two students Rhode Island School of Design. They described themselves as Asian femme creatures and have opened an inclusive place online for other women whom feel the same way. These women feel as though they unrepresented in coursework and in the media as they live in white-dominant societies. Therefore, they took it upon themselves to make a change through a variety of ways.…
Is TV Too White? Most, if not all characters featured on television programs are white. On the off chance that there are Asians, Blacks, or Latinos, they all usually have one thing in common. Asians are depicted as quiet, sexless, geniuses.…
We don’t see Asian Americans activists and leaders on televisions and social media like we do for African Americans and Mexicans. We all hear stories about “Black Lives Matter” and “Immigration/Dreamers” and we see strong activist groups speaking and representing their own race and culture. But after seeing W.E.B. DuBois and talking about voices and representation of Asian Americans, I have learned that Asian Americans do have a voice, we do have people fighting and standing up for their race and culture. Asian Americans have utilized spoken word and exercise W.E.B. DuBois’ four points theory by speaking out for themself and finding a place in society to bring themselves forward and publically standing up for what they believe is an equal…
The lack of Hispanic representations in the film industry is an important reason why there are prejudices and stereotypes in the industry. In fact, there are not many Hispanics who succeed to work in cinema. As mentioned by De Cones “bias appears to be a direct result of the systematic exclusion of Hispanic/Latinos from positions of authority in the Hollywood power structure” (32). Latinos are almost automatically excluded from higher position in the film industry. This suggests that the vision of Hispanic people in movie are created by people who do not have an idea of the reality of Latinos.…
Hollywood: Truly a Land of Opportunity? From white actors portraying black men in classics, such as Othello, or even from white actress playing dark skinned women, such as Mariane Pearl, white actors portraying people of color in american films has been a tradition in Hollywood. Hollywood has historically made the decision to cast white actors instead of letting minorities play their own roles. While Hollywood is known for being a white industry, over the past years more noise, such as the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite (8), has been made about the lack of diversity in their films.…
In doing so, Asian Americans are more likely to neglect the differences between their ethnicities and will stand together in the fight to suppress racism, an ambition among all Asian Americans which will unify…
Celebrities have influenced our culture greatly. Most people keep up with celebrities and some even become obsessed. Deborah King explains in her article how celebrities impact our society. I agree with Collin Palmer on some points, but celebrities have too great of an impact on us.…
The term “Tokenism” is maybe something the average person has never heard of. Tokenism is defined as “ the policy and practice of making a perfunctory gesture towards the inclusion of members of minority groups” If you look at any television show you watch or even movie for the most part you will always find at least one use of tokenism. There 's a token black guy who either acts like he is from what people have deemed the ghetto or he is soulful and acts like he’s from the south. There 's sometimes a token gay character that is always portrayed as a flamboyant white male with a high pitched voice and a love for fashion. The less common token is the love interest token which is the girl that the awkward main character has loved since forever but she has herself wrapped around some other guys finger.…
THE advancement of technology has enabled the celebrity culture to gain power to influence a large share of global population. In addition celebrity culture has taken an alteration in meaning and its new aspects are causing arguments amongst academics, with their expertise in the studies of celebrity culture.different aspects of this new culture is unveiled displaying celebrities rise to power, causes of mass media production with its constant feed of attention by fans and society reaction to death of celebrities. In order to understand the fundamental process of the change in celebrities culture, important aspects of present day celebrity culture must be compared to aspects before the advancement of technology. main aspects that is…
The East Asian media has become an important tool for conveying important ideas, knowledge, and skills that influence both commercial and political-engaged forms of pop culture in the society. East Asia, especially japan has rich cultural and in the recent past, they have incorporated this in the mainstream media as a way of promoting the contemporary cultures. The East Asian countries highly regard their culture and as such, they have made it an important aspect of their modern day technology. Thus, they have incorporated these cultural aspects in their media, thus promoting the culture among the people. Music and other forms entertainment aired on popular media and conveying a cultural message is spread across East Asia, thus promoting this…