Monday, December 19, 2011

Do you consider Kostya Tzyu and Nazeem Hahmed Asian?

I completely agree. This is a stereotype that me and my friends poke fun at all the time. I myself am also quite guilty of this. I remember once back in highschool we were filming a movie for our school's audio visual club and we needed extras. We asked this group of people and they laughed and they were like do you want all Asians in your movie? I questioned this and I was like huh? Because one of the men there was from India. The joke took me a second to get and I was like "Oh I get it ha ha". When people think Asian they think the countries you mention and no where else. Geography in my opinion has always been a subject the average American performs quite poorly in but even for someone like me who knows that you don't have to be from those countries only to be Asian always thinks of those countries first when they hear Asian (so does everyone else be honest). It is just the way it is with pop culture and what not and I don't see it changing but when you are reminded that it includes India during a blind date your friends set you up on and you expect the other type of Asian it makes for a nice conversation starter.

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