Word: asian-american
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This is a deceptive message! For one thing, Chan is a comic foreigner, not a real action hero like Samuel L. Jackson. For another, when was the last time anyone heard him described as sexy, or even attractive? Chan is also Asian, not Asian-American, a distinction that is entirely neglected in the strip but is central to many. Until you can find several good counterexamples and not just one bad one, the stereotype unfortunately still stands...
That only makes it harder to admit that most of what I'm watching is pretty dull stuff. Like Curtis, the straitlaced Asian-American attorney, scrubbing the toilet bowl. Or Jamie, the squeaky-clean beauty queen, grating cheese for nachos. Or those endless dissertations on the virtues of Dryel, the horrors of amoeba-induced diarrhea, the burning shame of bunions...
...Times deserves plaudits for trying to get beyond conventional racial wisdom. It deployed a team of more than 30 black, white, Hispanic and Asian-American reporters and editors for the project for more than a year. As befits the Times when it's gunning for a Pulitzer Prize, the stories they produced are superb. Two of them--a riveting examination of the oppression of black and Hispanic workers in a North Carolina pork-processing plant and a nuanced portrayal of how two close Cuban friends, one black and one white, are torn apart by apartheid American-style after they immigrate...
...slick, shiny, vintage Corvette that ultimately led investigators to the suspect. A prostitute told police she had seen the killer's youngest victim, Jennifer Joseph, in the car nine days before her body was found. Joseph, a striking Asian-American teenager from Tacoma, had dropped out of high school only three months earlier. The hair of a Caucasian male was found on a towel near her decomposed corpse. Working through 6,000 tips associated with more than a dozen victims, police eventually compiled a database of all Corvette owners in Washington and Idaho and another of all Corvettes stopped...
...tends to be the intellectual and commercial elite. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, only 3% of Indian arrivals lack a high school education, and 75% of working Indians are college graduates. (For immigrants from China, the figure is 55%.) Says Rajini Srikanth, a professor of Asian-American studies at the University of Massachusetts: "What we got were people who already came blessed with all kinds of valuable baggage." In many cases, the Indian schools that newcomers had attended were as good as or better than many of their U.S. counterparts...