Asian Stereotypes | Asian American Poll

ASIAN STEREOTYPES
(Updated Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:08:21 PM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

Which stereotype of Asian women do you find most offensive?
Quiet/Submissive | 22%
Sexually Available | 73%
Materialistic | 5%

Which stereotype of Asian men do you find most offensive?
Small Stature | 6%
Quiet/Submissive | 56%
Nerdy | 38%

Has American society's stereotyping of Asians decreased during the past 3 years?
Yes, there's less now. | 37%
No, it has stayed about the same | 43%
No, it has actually worsened. | 20%

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kitty ny:
"what really scared me was when i went to high school where a lot of the asian girls were literally had anorexia nervosia"

It not just the asian girls...many teenage girls are obsessed with their appearance and weight. I too was very vulnerable to the media's standards of beauty when I was in high school. I think I weight the same then as I do now...105lbs, 5'4". I cant believe how stupid I was back then...I actually thought about going on a 'diet', until my friends reminded me how ridiculous I was being.

It's almost a decade later, and now my little sister is in high school. She, too, has become a victim of the stick-thin-beauty image. Now I am the one reminding her how lucky she is to be looking healthy at her natural size, and if she becomes any thinner she would look aneroxic.

Althought we're asians, I think this is a problem not only unique to us. Teenagers of all races are susceptible to criticisms b/c they are at an age when they are 'finding themselves' and hoping to fit in somewhere.

Teenagers are also recognized as a very powerful group of consumers. It'll be a long time before the fashion industry would be making any changes to their disgustingly thin image of beauty. Why? B/c the fashion industry have what they want (POWER and MONEY!!). And they would not change until money and power become an issue for them.
be Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 20:08:36 (PDT)

kitty ny,

5'4 and 95 lbs? god that is really sick, I'm 5'4 and the least I ever weighed was about 105 and I was an absolute stick then. Why is being stick thin such an important beauty standard for asian girls?
? Tuesday, May 28, 2002 at 13:42:20 (PDT)

the definition of beauty is usualy defined by the average mean. Since the average asian woman is small-frame/petite, frail (not to be offensive), and delicate, that's what the standard of the ideal asian woman becomes. of course not all asian woman sticks in that category, just like not all american woman are tall w/ long legs and blond hair.
what really scared me was when i went to high school where a lot of the asian girls were literally had anorexia nervosia. Many of them, although they were no taller than 5'4, barely weighed 95 lbs. Whatmore, they constantly complained about how fat they were.

kitty ny Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 15:26:32 (PDT)

This message is for mangomonkey. You talk about how "white people think this, and white people think that". You say we stereotype you Asian women all the time. Well, if you look at your statement, aren't you stereotyping white men? You see, you say that all of us white me think a certain way, so you are now stereotyping white men. Just thought I would point out your hypocritical statement. I am married to an asian woman, and I don't think she is submissive or a comfort women. She also does not have hostile feelings toward white men as you do. Also the majority of people I know don't think this way about Asian women. I think you are just watching too much television. I know that Asian women are normal people, and so are white men. Oh yea, by the way, not all white men are hairy, I'm not. :) There you go STEREOTYPING white men again. Later.
alanjason Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 18:38:43 (PDT)

YP:

Do I count as a Pink Brother since I'm Euro-American? Like I tell my students who seem surprised at my mode of dress, I dress for comfort, not style or to look professorial. Houston is hot and humid most of the time, so I'm not going to be wearing a tie, a longsleeved shirt, wool slacks and leather shoes if I can avoid it.

Have a good one bud!
Hank L. Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 05:41:40 (PDT)

DD- I live in the northeast. I guess I haven't seen enough of the US to really make generalizations, that's just what I see around me every day. A lot of women here are just stick thin, it's the fashion, maybe like under 115 lbs, but I do actually see a decent amount of larger people. What was Cali like? I always thought that LA was full of perfect, tan, thin, tall beauty queens.
me Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 10:55:45 (PDT)

Hank:
that would do it for me if I saw a brother dressed like that ! I would make you park over on the next campus myself.
But then again even with a comfortable salary myself, I buy a lot of stuff at the thrift shop ! That's just my style, none at all !!!
peace-yp Thursday, May 09, 2002 at 07:22:39 (PDT)

Me,

What part of the country are you from, if you don't mind my asking? I'm in the South and I would have to disagree with you that there are few thin people here. There are lots of fat people here but there are just as many or more thin people. Perhaps your definition of thin is different then mine. Anyway, I was in Cali a couple of months ago and I expected to see all these skinny, beautiful people and was surprised by what I saw. To me they looked typical of what I see here. Some fat and some not. These are just my observations. Perhaps you live in an area where there truely are a lot of overweight people. Take care.
DD Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 12:19:54 (PDT)

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