Stereotypes Of Asian Americans

Asian Americans, having long been undermined and negatively systematized in terms of popular media and overlooked in the consumer market, have been unable to achieve a voice or leave a trace in American pop culture. As a matter of fact, there are plentiful Hollywood films nowadays that lack racial diversity in its casting members. Consequently, if the movie or television show did consist a diverse set of performers that consist of minorities, the characters are often portrayed with racial mockery. Asian Americans are great examples of being undermined as they one of the few races in this country that lack pop culture representation. While Asian Americans are considered the fastest growing racial group in the United States, their media roles
According to the Pew Research Center, Asians constitute approximately 6 percent of the total population of the United States, but only 3.8 percent of all TV and theatrical roles were portrayed by Asian Americans. This also applies to the two other underrepresented racial groups with Latinos coming at 6.4 percent and African Americans at 13.3 percent. To no surprise, Caucasians represent 72.5 percent of all roles in the big screen. Asian Americans have been portrayed on television based on people's judgement and are distinctively viewed based on how society categorizes them. If this racial group did get media roles, they would normally portray or act out as geeks, foreigners with limited English language proficiency, prostitutes, and the most prevalent act: Kung Fu fighters. The statement is truly accurate since Asians were viewed much differently in a negative sense on television in the past than they are viewed today, but the faulty judgement of many people still remains. The inadequacy of this racial group in the media has compelled Asian American youth to adapt the personas of different cultures in their desires for social and cultural
Men, specifically, have often relegated to acts as tech nerds, assistants, doctors, and desexualized characters. Kal Penn, an Indian American actor known for his roles in the Harold and Kumar movies and the television series known as ‘House,’ recently made waves when he posted tweets that contained racist script excerpts he had received, such as “Gandhi lookalike” and a “Pakistani computer geek… in a perpetual state of perspiration.” On the other hand, Asian women regularly go up for parts as sex workers or characters described as fragile. A case for this relates to Atsuka Okatsuka, a Japanese comedian and actress. Atsuka claimed that she had gone up for the roles that were clearly terrible matches for her - where it seemed the only reason she was called in was because of her race. She recalled one “Japanese schoolgirl” character for whom, she needed to squeal a lot and speak in a very pitched cadence in Japanese and giggle in a very seductive