Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brown people, I'm referring to South Asians and South Asian-Americans. There are plenty of other groups that don't exist either, according to the much-venerated tube, but South Asians and South Asian-Americans happen to be my particular field of expertise...
...happen to be South Asian-American--Sri Lankan Tamil-American, to be exact. And I never see anything even remotely related to myself on television...
Envision, if you will, a normally dressed person of South Asian origin. Without a pocket protector. Without an accent. Have you ever seen that on TV? Of course not. And 35 percent of the world's population is South Asian or of South Asian origin. Now, I have nothing against either pocket protectors or accents. But I don't think that absolutely every person of South Asian origin has them...
...film distorts religion--notice the villainous cult's poorly veiled similarities and references to South Asian religions, including Hinduism. As David Sterritt of the Christian Science Monitor wrote in 1989, "racist implications...became uncomfortably strong in 'Temple of Doom,' where Indy strutted like a Great White Hero among people of color who were consistently helpless, villainous, or both...
...another commercial example of this problem aired on a radio station that I was listening to over the summer. The ad, for efortress.com, began with audio of someone--South Asian, to judge by the intentionally distorted accent--leading a session of yoga. Then the efortress.com pitch line: Basically, they said, some things have to be slow. Your Internet service provider doesn...