- Chau is addressing the mistreatment of Chinese immigrants in the early 1800s, and how eve though things are not as bad now, Chinese are still faced with mistreatment and a large amount of ignorance towards them from the American entertainment world.
- This is a controversial issue because some people can and do devalue arguments like those of Chau’s. They say that everyone here is faced with stereotypes that other’s feed off of, and it’s not a big deal. It’s an argument of “what makes you so special?” vs. “why are we doing nothing about this.”
- I’m most persuaded by Chau’s argument using the example of Crazy Rich Asian the movie. The line ” The movie only shows the lavish lifestyles of Chinese-Singaporeans, but fails to acknowledge that 80% of Singaporeans live in public housing (The Economist),” really stuck out to me. It showed the lack of understanding and representation in a film that was supposed to be dedicated to a certain culture.
- The best argument I could think of is that of ignorance. One can argue that they simply do not know enough to be able to properly represent a culture in their film/tv show. All they can base what they create entertainment on is what is widely known, which in most cases, includes a bunch of stereotypes.
- I discovered that I also did not know much about this topic. As I continued to read I realized that I did beforehand realize a lot of the stuff that Chau pointed out, but failed to take the time to do more research on it.
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Thanks, Akosua. Yes, I often find when reading a good analysis that I never even knew how little I knew about a topic! Thoughtful work here.