Asians on American TV | Asian American Poll

HOW THE TV NETS TREAT ASIANS
(Updated Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:08:08 PM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

Which U.S. TV network is most Asian-Friendly?
ABC | 24%
CBS | 28%
FOX | 27%
NBC | 21%

Which U.S. TV network is least Asian-Friendly?
ABC | 28%
CBS | 20%
FOX | 26%
NBC | 26%

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Personal tastes are, well, personal tastes. I guess I happened to think that ZZ was prettier and more refined looking than RS in RH2. But supposing she is less...curvier, she's no less curvier than folks like Uma Thurman, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Gwyneth Paltrow, all of whom are pretty much straight up and down (and IMO have the most elegant and refined looks around in white Hollywood). Yet these folks get the camera panning them up and down all the time. Hell, even Calista what's her name in Ally McBeal is presented as a sex symbol despite being so emaciated!

I agree with you that RH2 was good in that showed mostly minorities. But at the same time, they are made to act like such stupid buffoons--ways in which even some of the silliest white actors are not made to act. Chris' cracks like "Y'all look alike" and "You're third world ugly" or Jackie's "I'm going to slap you back to Africa" are some of the most juvenile taunts. (Incidentally, as one reader has pointed out a few months ago, the cracks made by Chris' characters could easily have been applied to blacks a long time ago.)
Asian Dominatrix Thursday, January 24, 2002 at 09:08:20 (PST)

"I saw a pretty wierd film a while back. It was about an Indian family that
immigrated to Africa, while it was a white colony. Then the blacks revolted and
the family came to American South because the country was a "Black Africa
for Blacks only." It was a weird identity issue the indian kids had."

You mean Mississippi Masala. Regarding AM fooling around with WF and dumping her for a AF...happens all the time with the Indian community. I am currently visiting a university town in the midwest..the whites tell me this all the time and it is true, because I belong to the Indian community. May be they should make a movie on this.
Asian American Male Thursday, January 24, 2002 at 07:32:05 (PST)

I would actually like to commend Asian males for not marrying out of their race. Interracial dating my ass. Same with same equals wonderful.
missy girl Wednesday, January 23, 2002 at 22:48:31 (PST)

Okay ...maybe because i am a whitegirl for i don't understand why the media are getting the blame for everything these days ..sure there are tons of negative sterotype of asian in movies and in other races too but seriously u have to be pretty dense in the head if what u see on the screen is a true life reflection at the end of the day it's just a film it has no influence on my thinking at all and why the hell should it?
Geri K Wednesday, January 23, 2002 at 20:28:13 (PST)

AC Dropout:

Robert Downey Jr. played Kyle MacLachlin's brother and Wesley Snipes' best freind. Downey's character was dying of AIDs in the movie, which was a real downer on MacLachlin and Snipes' characters. In fact, the two men had met on more than one occasion to support eachother. Snipes just didn't know that MachLachlin was married to Natasja Kinski's charcter.

During the wake party, Snipes and Kinsky were starting to get down in the kitchen. While that was happening, the scene kept on switching back and forth to Ming-Na comforting MachLachlin at first, which then turns into a deep passionate kiss.

Eventually, Snipes and Kinsky go to a dark pool house or tool shed to get it on, but just as they start to do so, they hear a noise, then turn over and see Ming-Na and Machlachin in delicta flagrante on the other side of the room.

From what I read, the director of the movie cast the characters "color blind." He just picked actors whom he felt carried the parts the best regardless of race and never explained the hows and the whys of race whatsoever. A nice thought, but not entirely realistic. (Just like how the dog was going nuts because Snipes didn't shower after doing Kinsky the first time!).

The sad part of that whole movie was that Robert Downey Jr.'s performance as the friend dying of AIDs was more compelling than the rest of the movie.
Census Taker Wednesday, January 23, 2002 at 10:54:24 (PST)

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