Directed and edited by Calvin Sun. Produced by Aretha Choi, Marilla Li, and Calvin Sun.
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watc...
***WINNER of the audience favorite "One to Watch Award" in the longe...
Directed and edited by Calvin Sun. Produced by Aretha Choi, Marilla Li, and Calvin Sun.
***WINNER of the audience favorite "One to Watch Award" in the longest running Asian American film festival in the world; the 30th Annual Asian American International Film Festival!!!***
This is part 1 of 2 in a film discussing the Asian American opinion on female body image, beauty standards, eating disorders, and unspoken pressures to be thin in both American and Asian cultures.
An otherwise taboo subject to talk about among specifically Asian Americans, students at Columbia University are now tired of keeping mum about the issue and are speaking out.
This video does not aim to cover every single ground regarding the topic; instead it seeks to begin dialogue with a generalized approach to the problems as a first step. We want first to show that Asian Americans are like any other American struggling with issues of body image while at the same time facing pressures coming from their own respective cultures.
This video certainly focuses on the former point; We hope that the latter will be explored more in the future.
We also must reveal the contradiction of how Asian American girls are pressured in this society to look both "western" and "Asian."
This includes pressures on how many Asian American girls are supposed to play up this well-known image of looking innocent, weak, and petite as "attractive", but at the same time mainstream media depicts Asian American females as alluring, "exotic," and sexy.
We hope that the people in this video will inspire others around the world to undertake similar projects that would focus deeper into these issues regarding body image and perhaps more specifically Asian American body image.
Therefore, this is only the beginning.
Produced by Aretha Choi & Marilla Li.
Directed & edited by Calvin Sun.
For more information, please contact aaa@columbia.edu
Dedicated to my father, Alexander S. Sun 1939-2006
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I don't believe in biasing of beauty at all. I think that beauty is diverse and comes in many forms, cultures and looks. And I think that people that people who favor "white beauty" are just like white supremacists on a superficial level. And white supremacy blows.. I know how they feel. I wasn't born to be thin so I used to contemplate bulemia and tried anorexia because exercise and diet didn't work. Having a positive self image is key, and I really feel that almost everyone deserves that.
I really like the videos. I just wish the sound quality was better. Maybe shoot on a different location or using better microphones would help. Thanks for posting.
another problem is when you described your preference for Asian American women, you focused entirely on the stereotypical physical attributes that has been tantamount to the kind of objectifying language of the long history of men who fetishize Asian American women. If you truly believe you don't have a fetish, then I would reevaluate how you express yourself because you come across as very objectifying.
I actually wrote that for you guys to feel good about yourselves instead of the complaining that i hear in this video. Be yourself and enjoy yourself insted of being who someone else wants you to be. Its not a fetish. Southeast Asia has alot of smart, funny, caring and loving skinny Asian females and if i thats who i choose to be with then thats who im going to be with and not some Asians who were either born here or either brought here and think they have to be like females around them.
If your aim was to make them feel better then you could have done a far better job instead of saying how you "dislike" them for speaking out against a culture that constantly pressures young teenagers to abide by a standard of beauty. In fact, they are being most themselves by being outspoken and not some quiet, passive stereotype of what people perceive most Asian American women to be.
We think you're either an internet troll looking for attention or that you are actually a real person who didn't understand the video, enjoys objectifying women, and that you relish in your fetish because you are unsuccessful with women.
We hope for your sake and self-esteem that it is the former.
Im a black guy and have only dated Asian women..i dislike asians that are here and feel they have to be tanned just because they are in the West. just give me a pale asian that is 100 lbs, with a small butt, small chest preferably A cup, with small feet and im happy because im dealing with anyone that strives to be what the West wants if she is pale. What do you guys think?
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I just wish the sound quality was better. Maybe shoot on a different location or using better microphones would help.
Thanks for posting.
We hope for your sake and self-esteem that it is the former.