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''Crash'' Course on Societal Racism Shortchanges Asian Americans
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Posted by Andrew on Thursday, May 15 @ 06:31:54 EDT (2008 reads) |
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By Erin Wong
©2006 Hardboiled
March 2006
Though Crash has been nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Motion Picture, it is difficult to say how the film advances racial tolerance given its vilifying portrayal of Asians. Hailed as an honest and provocative depiction of post-9/11 racism in America, Paul Haggis's directorial debut dares to blatantly display common racial stereotypes, in order to deconstruct them through the reality of race. The film deals with society's perceptions of blacks, whites, Middle Easterners, Latinos, and Asians by depicting racial interactions that boil over, exposing the latent ethnic discrimination within the supposed melting pot of Los Angeles. Yet the film attempts to bridge these ethnic divides through unsettling sequences that dispel preconceived notions about race, advance universal tolerance, and promote understanding of people whose lives are ruled circumstance.
Crash brazenly shows skewed prejudices against minorities. Latinos become cheating Mexican gang bangers. Middle Easterners become stubborn and incoherent convenience store owners. Blacks become gun-toting criminals. Asians become greedy smugglers. And whites oversee this chaos with condescending bigotry. The film boldly takes the perspective of intolerant and quick to anger white Los Angelinos, a perspective filled with racial slurs, injustices, and narrow-mindedness, leaving viewers in disbelief. |
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Photographer Charges Star's Staff With Racism
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Posted by Andrew on Friday, January 18 @ 12:45:21 EST (2820 reads) |
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By Marsha Lederman
©2008 Globe and Mail (Toronto)
January 16, 2008
VANCOUVER — Allegations of racism are being levelled at a member of Jennifer Aniston's staff while she shoots a film in Vancouver. A photographer trying to snap the Hollywood star's photo says the staffer repeatedly called his girlfriend, who is Asian, a "chink."
Rik Fedyck says the incident happened Monday after he tried to shoot photos of Ms. Aniston arriving on the set of the film Traveling, which began production in Vancouver this week.
It appears unlikely, though, that Mr. Fedyck, who has made paparazzi-related headlines before for an incident involving Denise Richards and Pamela Anderson, will be able to persuade police to lay charges.
Mr. Fedyck says his initial run-in with Ms. Aniston's staff happened Monday morning, when Mr. Fedyck was in his car with his girlfriend, who is Thai.
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CBS Radio Pulls Show After D.J.’s Prank Call to Chinese Restaurant
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Posted by Andrew on Monday, May 14 @ 00:43:03 EDT (6051 reads) |
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©2007 Associated Press
May 13, 2007
One month after the firing of radio host Don Imus, a pair of suspended New York shock jocks have been permanently pulled from the air by CBS Radio for a prank phone call rife with Asian stereotypes.
“The Dog House with JV and Elvis,” featuring Jeff Vandergrift and Dan Lay, “will no longer be broadcast,” CBS Radio spokeswoman Karen Mateo said yesterday.
CBS Radio dismissed Mr. Imus in April for a comment he made about the Rutgers women’s basketball team. He plans a $120 million breach of contract lawsuit.
The cancellation of the other show yesterday, nearly three weeks after Mr. Vandergrift and Mr. Lay were suspended, was another indication of the increased scrutiny on radio hosts and the heightened sensitivity of management to complaints in the wake of Mr. Imus’s firing.
“This is a victory not only for the Asian-American community, but for all communities who find themselves constant targets of racist and sexist programming,” said Jeanette Wang, an executive with the Organization of Chinese Americans. |
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Weighing Cho's Heritage, and Identity
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The Anti-Model Minority Myth
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Posted by Andrew on Sunday, January 21 @ 12:41:02 EST (17127 reads) |
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LuXun writes "or Why E.R. Will Never Have an Asian Male Doctor
©2005 By Lu Xun
Special to ModelMinority.com
June 2005
Several years ago, I had a ritual where I would have lunch with several Asian American friends at a Chinese restaurant every Sunday afternoon. Although women were often a part of this lunch group, it was mostly young Asian American men. Unintentionally, it turned out that most of these Asian American men in my Sunday lunchtime ritual were either physicians or attending medical school. " |
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Posted by Andrew on Friday, April 07 @ 19:37:08 EDT (7960 reads) |
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By Daniel Negreanu
Card Player Magazine
January 14, 2005
I grew up in Toronto, which is one of the most multicultural cities in the world. It was common in a classroom of 30 kids to see 20 countries represented. While growing up, I saw that racism was virtually a non-issue. If you watched the news, you’d see a Jamaican woman doing the weather, an Indian woman covering entertainment, a Chinese man covering business, a black man doing sports, and the anchors were from Greece, Italy, Russia, or Israel. Talk about a melting pot, Toronto was like a utopia of peace and harmony among cultures. I’m so proud of my hometown, and I know for a fact that it’s had a very positive effect on my view of the world.
Having said that, in the poker world today, I’m not so sure that I see the same respect for other cultures that I did back in Toronto.
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Studying Films' Asian Females
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Posted by Andrew on Friday, January 20 @ 10:00:00 EST (9695 reads) |
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By Craig Takeuchi
©2005 The Straight (Vancouver Free Press)
December 15, 2005
What a difference a decade can make. The year 1993 gave rise to a pivotal celluloid event in Asian North American culture when director Wayne Wang adapted Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club into a film showcasing an all-female, all Asian-American leading cast. The weepfest hauled in over $32 million at the box office. In its wake, East Asian females have been popping up everywhere on both small and silver screens with increasing frequency, from CBC’s This Is Wonderland (Siu Ta, Mung-Ling Tsui) and ABC’s Lost (Kim Yoon-jin) to film stars like Korean Canadian Sandra Oh (Under the Tuscan Sun, Sideways, Cake) or Eurasian American Devon Aoki (2 Fast 2 Furious, D.E.B.S., Sin City). Even the latest Harry Potter features Cho Chang (Katie Leung) as Harry’s love interest. Now, almost 13 years after The Joy Luck Club, another predominantly female, all-Asian lead cast is set to mark a new milestone with Memoirs of a Geisha. |
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Racist Images Persist in Films
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Posted by Andrew on Saturday, December 31 @ 21:55:57 EST (12787 reads) |
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OmegaSupreme writes "By Andrew Ma
©2004 Ka Leo O Hawaii
February 26, 2004
I love a good movie.
Enough so that I've even joined the University of Hawaii's brand-new, forward-thinking Academy for Creative Media, where crazed action, intense drama, and side-busting comedy have all been part of the fun in our filmmaking. But crossing the line from movie-watcher to movie-maker has also brought something else to the forefront -- my perspectives as an Asian American.
Looking around now at modern movies and TV shows, I'm thinking, "What the hell is going on with Asians in the media?" Something seriously stinks, and that something even has an appropriately nasty name: Racism." |
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Goodbye to Pat Morita, Best Supporting Asian
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The Asian Sports Conundrum
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Harry Potter and the Asian American Image in Media
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49ers Owner Goes to Chinatown to Apologize
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Americans Can't Get Enough of Asia
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Prejudice Against Asians is Alive and Well
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Radio Station Loses Ads After Racial Slurs
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Study: Asian Actors on TV Underrepresented
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Posted by Andrew on Monday, May 02 @ 13:26:58 EDT (4559 reads) |
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By Erin Texeira
©2005 Associated Press
May 2, 2005
"The King of Queens" is set in a New York City borough where almost one in five residents is Asian American — yet none of the CBS sitcom's regular characters is Asian. And of the dozens of regular characters in CBS' entire prime-time line-up, not one is Asian.
At most other networks, the situation is slightly better.
A study of Asian Americans in prime-time television, released Monday, shows that Asians, who make up 5 percent of the U.S. population, play 2.7 percent of regular characters. It also shows virtually no Asian actors are on situation comedies, and the characters they play in dramas tend to have less depth than most regulars, with minimal on-screen time and few romantic roles.
"Television is still the place where people get to know other people from other cultures... if they don't have regular contact with them in real life," said Karen K. Narasaki, president of the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, the Washington-based civil rights group that commissioned the study. "If Asian Americans are absent, it tends to reinforce the stereotypes." |
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Actors Grapple with Asian Stereotypes
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Marshall Defends Controversial 'Geisha' Casting Decision
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Posted by Andrew on Monday, March 14 @ 10:00:00 EST (5068 reads) |
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DFH writes "©2005 Los Angeles Times
March 7, 2005
KYOTO, Japan -- Every move Komomo makes is rooted in Japanese ritual.
The way her body sinks to kneel, or how she uses just the fingertips of her right hand to slide open the wood-framed Japanese doors. The way she moves like smoke across the room on her dancer's toes." |
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Abating Stereotypical Attitudes
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Posted by Andrew on Monday, February 07 @ 10:00:00 EST (3921 reads) |
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Views on career paths of an Asian American comedian
By J.M.Fujioka
©1991 Career Development Quarterly
vol. 31, pp. 337-40
I first saw William Mar
perform at a small night club when I was invited to audition a dozen stand-up
comedians for a charity fundraiser. He was the only Asian American comic
among a predominantly White crowd. After viewing his act, I decided that
he was a rising talent for one basic reason: He is good.
At a glance, Mar looks
like a typical Chinese American. He has black hair, stands 5'8" and weighs
135 lbs. His style is genteel, his mannerisms are polite, and at the same
time, his material focuses on the Asian American experience. Unlike Asian
American comics of the past, Mar does not mire himself in cultural depreciation.
Instead, he provides insight into stereotypical views of Asian Americans
as well as the commentary of an American of Asian descent staring back
at people who are looking at him. |
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Protestors Boycott Radio Station for Tsunami Comments
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Steering Clear of the Big Broadcast
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Rejecting Stereotypes of Asian American Men
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When the JPNZ say ''JAP''
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Posted by Andrew on Tuesday, January 04 @ 10:00:00 EST (2595 reads) |
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By Karen Crouse
©2005 Palm Beach Post
January 1, 2005
FORT LAUDERDALE — Running back Reggie Bush, who can fill up a reporter's
notebook as well as he does a stat sheet, was present and accounted for. So was
quarterback Matt Leinart, who has become almost as big a media darling as
Lindsay Lohan since winning the Heisman Trophy last month.
The USC players were ready to roll Friday after a morning news conference. A
cursory head count revealed one member of their caravan was missing.
Paul Goldberg, a USC sports information assistant, was sent to retrieve Norm
Chow, the Trojans' offensive coordinator, from the interview room where he was
holding court. "Norm's gotta go," Goldberg said as he shepherded Chow
to the exit. "The engine's running."
In one hour Chow had effectively hit the kill switch on a years-old fallacy
fueling the perception that he's not cut out to be an effective head coach in
college football. |
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Death Is All Around, But the Band Plays On
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Posted by Andrew on Friday, December 31 @ 10:00:00 EST (2923 reads) |
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montyp writes "For many in key Thai resort, it is sun, sex and booze as usual
By Jason Burke
©2004 The Guardian
December 30, 2004
PHUKET, Thailand -- Stefan Johansson, a 41-year-old air force officer from Sweden, is hoping that tonight is the night. He is not concerned about aftershocks hitting the beach half a mile from here, or about the haphazard rescue operation finally under way in southern Thailand.
Nor is he worried by the deaths of several hundred compatriots. Mr Johansson is anxious that the bar girl he has his eye on is going to keep holding out on him. "I'm having a good holiday," he said. "I went for a walk along the sand this morning, did a bit of swimming. Now I'm off drinking, and then we'll see."
Mr Johansson is not alone. Four days after the tidal wave hit, normal life has returned to much of Phuket and surrounding resorts such as Patong. The "girlie" bars are reopening, the bazaars selling rip-off Rolex watches are busy, the tourists are streaming off flights and on to the beach. Here Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's request for the country to wear black and forego New Year festivities seems likely to fall on deaf ears. " |
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New York Times: Tsunami Kills White People, Too!
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Posted by Andrew on Friday, December 10 @ 10:00:00 EST (4260 reads) |
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OmegaSupreme writes "The karate-chop stereotype sells tickets, but sells us out
By Oliver Wang
©1998 AsianWeek
August 6, 1998
Is 1998 really the year of the Asian male--as in film stars? There's certainly a greater presence. From Garrett Wang's weekly appearances on Star Trek: Voyager to Chow Yun Fat's explosive Hollywood debut in The Replacement Killers, Asian and Asian American men in popular media seem at first glance to have come a long way since, say, the goofy, sex-starved Long Duc Dong of Sixteen Candles in 1984.
Unfortunately, stereotypes still abound. Take the latest installment in Richard Donner's Lethal Weapon series, whose fourth sequel debuted in early July. This time around, Lethal Weapon 4 resurrects the familiar nefarious triad gangster, mixed with another abused cliché, the kung-fu master." |
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Posted by Andrew on Tuesday, December 07 @ 10:00:00 EST (8240 reads) |
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OmegaSupreme writes "By Ryan James Kim
©2004 The Advocate
August 10, 2004
A few months ago Details, the metrosexual men’s magazine, ran a feature called “Gay or Asian?” as part of its regular section that points out the similarities between gay male stereotypes and other cultural stereotypes. But unlike in previous issues, with features such as “Gay or Eurotrash?” and “Gay or Jesus?” that ran with little to no complaint, the magazine was surprised to see thousands of angry e-mails from subscribers and activists criticizing their latest choice.
“Gay or Asian?” sparked a rare fury not only from the gay community and the gay Asian community but the larger Asian community as well. The reason should be painfully apparent. Asians are one of the least represented racial groups in media, having to continually settle for tiresome stereotypical roles as the exotic seductress or the martial arts master. Asian males in particular are probably the least represented racial group of all when taking into consideration our percentage of the U.S. population.
Because of this underrepresentation, any depiction is crucial to either confirming or destroying common stereotypes. When Details compares the stereotypical gay male and the stereotypical Asian male by writing “one cruises for chicken; the other takes it General Tso–style,” it isn’t just a harmless joke—there’s nothing on TV or in the movies to counterbalance that point. The satire, the very title of which suggests that one cannot be gay and Asian, could well have shaped the only image that a reader has of Asian-Americans.
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Vietnamese TV Show Put Back on Schedule
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