Fighting Stereotypes: Constructive Approach

In the fight against stereotypes, I feel that some Asian males are not fighting them in a constructive manner. Here is my take on this issue.

This is a video response to my youtube friend Ksister920. Below is the link to the video that I am responding to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbd0LLJnAlQ

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• asian
• males
• fighting
• stereotypes
• generalizations
• shyness
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• Ksister920

[heroKYH28]

Part 3 - lastly, many asain's parents came to the U.S. for freedom and a good edu. for their future generations (for a successful life)--and they expect them to be a good student, or other expectations they have of them, which made them more concentrated on those priorities than socializing (therefore, they can be shy)...

[icysparks2007]

@heroKYH28 Interesting insight. Thank you so much for sharing :D

[EmIlY72912]

Icysparks2007, You are the perfect example of how to constructively approach situations. :) Your videos are very insightful and helpful; I especially liked the one about Hapas. I can understand how some AMs would jump at hearing something they don't identify themselves with. But its like you said, in some cases its not meant to generalize every AM.

[icysparks2007]

@EmIlY72912 Aww, thanks... *blushes* ^.^

[YunSeung]

I do, however, believe that it is possible to break the Asian stereotype quite easily when interacting with people. When you encounter people who don't know much about Asians (without the predispositioned belief of Asians) and interact with them, it is easy to eliminate all the stereotypical views. If we worry about the negetive stereotypes, there is more of these issues that come to our attention. Personally, I think that all we have to do is debunk them rather than bring attention to them.

[icysparks2007]

@YunSeung Thanks for the insight bro. I agree with you 100% =]

[heroKYH28]

Part 2 - Some may want to be an individual and not follow what other people around are doing... others may have a greater prioity than socializing with other people the way american pop culture has modeled for them.

[heroKYH28]

Part 1 - hello, i just wanted to share that from my point of shy asain males (this is what i see with my church brothers in Christ or relatives)... they sometimes aren't raise within american pop culture, meaning that their parents or people they're around with aren't "Americanized" (don't follow american traditions and attitude).

[icysparks2007]

@poorch Haha, no worries bro. It happens to the best of us =]

[YunSeung]

Hello there Icysparks! I remember some of your comments from my older videos and of course, your friend invite. You come up with some key points about media and the portrayal of Asian men, but this is changing quite a lot. Quite recently, in the longest time since Mortal Kombat, we are now having American made movies with strong Asian male characters in movies such as Ninja Assassin, The Warrior's Way, and the upcoming Green Hornet will also have a strong Asian male role.