Asians In The Media
If you have been following the news lately, you might have heard of the story of the truck driver in Chinatown who left his van unattended in reverse, which then crashed into a group of children killing two. You might also have heard about the student at Virginia Tech who was having a coffee with a fellow student when he all of a sudden decided to lop off her head in the middle of the coffee shop.
The one common denominator in all of this is that they're all Asian. Why are Asians involved in so many unsavory headlines these days? I guess the truck driver can get a pass since it was an accident, and you hear about crazy shit happening like people driving their cars into storefronts and what not all the time who aren't Asian. But he still doesn't do much for the stereotype of Asians being inept drivers.
Both of these incidents are tragedies, so I'm not trying to dismiss one as being better or worse than the other. But as far as the Virginia Tech incident goes along with the incident in Toronto and the first Virginia Tech incident, I'm worried about what ramifications these will have on the image of Asians in America. Maybe I'm just more sensitive to the whole race thing because I'm Chinese, but I just can't help but feel that Americans will associate "Asian" with "crazy". I don't want people thinking that Asians have these unresolved issues that manifests itself into a beheading or mass murder of some sort.
Because Asians have their fair share of crazies, just like everyone else.
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January 25th, 2009 - 12:04
Don’t forget the sushi chef who sliced a guy’s face up due to road rage.
http://gothamist.com/2009/01/23/road_rage_fight_with_sushi_chef_lea.php
January 25th, 2009 - 22:22
We need more Asian lawyers. That article is exaggerated and I bet every single word the guy stated was written by his lawyer.
January 28th, 2009 - 04:01
The majority of school shootings have been caucasian males, so when it turned out to be a Korean male at Virginia Tech in 2007, many were shocked–so I still think that Asians are stereotypically viewed as quite, polite, studious etc…
I’m not worried about negative images being portrayed–if Asian gangsters can’t give us a negative image by now, it would take a lot more crime to make it happen.
February 2nd, 2009 - 23:48
“I don’t want people thinking that Asians have these unresolved issues that manifests itself into a beheading or mass murder of some sort.”
Uh-oh. The novel I’m working on is about an Asian with unresolved issues that manifests itself into mass murder of some sort.