Asian-American sitcom 'Fresh Off The Boat" and more new racially themed ABC shows

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Fresh Off the Boat is an upcoming American situation comedy series starring Hudson Yang, that is loosely based on the life of chef and food personality Eddie Huang and his book Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir. It is the first Asian-American television situation comedy since Margaret Cho's All American Girl, which aired for one season in 1994. Its style is akin to the racial comedy Everybody Hates Chris.

Synopsis
The story follows the story of Eddie Huang's Taiwanese family as they make their way from Washington DC to Orlando, Florida to open up a steak restaurant during the 1990s.[5] The mother struggles with culture clash, the father embraces the "American Dream", and Eddie and his brothers struggle with assimilating into the school.

 

If it's funny I'm cool with it.

 

I don't get it. They keep saying they're moving from DC. Eddie was born there and he looks around 10 in the show. So how is there so much culture shock?

 

I hope they are good
I hope they aren't stereotypical

but . . . I am not exactly confident about it

Rocket River

 

D.C. had a a much bigger Asian-American population in the early 90's than Florida. It would be kind of like a Hispanic person in Houston moving to Wisconsin.

 

the fake broken english by the actress playing the mother isn't very convincing.

 

Hmmmmmmm

Spoiler

 

Asian show looks stupid. And they didn't come off a boat. They drove to Florida from DC.

But at least it has a hot lead actress.

 

Constance Wu can sing, too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIx8INhbNAA

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All Asians love Karaoke, I guess? WTF, McDonald's...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3whnLkFLsc
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Swoly told me that Jeremy Lin is going to guest star!

 

This is a very divisive issue. The "normal Asians" quote in itself refers to non-American Asians or first generation Asians with a perceived deviance or lacking a certain cultural aspect. Stereotypes often run rampant in American media on Asian American and Asian individuals. Moreover, it doesn't help that Asians are already underrepresented on both fronts, while both groups remain horribly portrayed in some venues. Which is born out of ignorance and not having writers on your staff.

 

every Asian I know likes karaoke when they're in their early 20s. It's a true stereotype

 

I like Eddie Huang's online show on Vice, although sometimes he can be douchey and annoying. He knows his food very well.

 

Agreed
The need for strong Asian writers on the show
who are willing to say . . HOLD UP! THAT'S TOO FAR
will be key to the show

Alot of negative vileness comes out of ignorance, stupidity
and general lack of a person in the room with the experience and background
to know the climate/environment and audience.
Sometimes you need someone of that group to be there and just be the voice of reason
and
they are not the voice of everyone of the gorup
but it at least gives the opportunity to not offend

Spoiler

Someone thought this was a good cover for the new All African American Avengers comic . . . .. yea. . . . . that happened



and this

Yea . . the all African American Avengers are fighting fire breathing chickens. . . .
just wow.

I wish I was in the room when these were discussed.

Rocket River

 

This is interesting. When I say "normal asians", I mean normal freaking people, who also happen to have asian facial features and skin tone. You know, people who aren't martial artists, or speak with broken english. Asexual asian men who have no charisma and the personality of a drywall. Very little character development, aside from token attributes such as martial arts, the foreigner, or the unattractive short/fat funny guy (think Ken Jeong or Bobby Lee). Rarely will you see asian male roles that are flattering.

On the flipside, how are asian women portrayed? Sexual, exotic, submissive, unwithering loyalty (stereotypical asian core values), to their (white) boyfriend/husband.

“It seems to be okay if the man is white and the woman is Asian. The community thinks it typecasts Asian women as exotic or as playthings.”

At the same time, Imada says, “Asian males are just not viewed as being lovers, as being manly enough, or sexy enough, to carry a story or a commercial. The idea is that they’re not strong enough to woo a white woman. So they don’t get the roles” and are rarely paired with women of any race.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...59bc84-feb1-11e1-a31e-804fccb658f9_story.html

Another thing you touched upon. I agree, the term "Normal asians" is certainly subjective and means different things to different people. In media, there is a strong correlation to them being foreigners, as a tool for comic relief, or as an object of sexuality; with little to no personality. Basically, they're not portrayed like real human beings. Their typical roles are unrelatable, and difficult for the audience to actually become immersed with their characters; either due to their foreignness or lack of humanistic qualities. They're either a kung fu master, a court jester, or sex doll.

It's one thing for Asians to be underrepresented, its another thing when movies like Dragonball are being whitewashed. (was a childhood favorite comic of mine)
Goku is the lead character, so I guess he can't be asian.

More examples:
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2009/11/29/casting-white-actors-in-asian-roles-1957-to-today/

 

I'm Chinese-American, and I got to say they got some of the Chinese stereotypes spot on, lol.

 

What exactly does you being Asian have anything to do with this?

 

Out of those I thought American Crime was the most interesting. The Blackish one just was cringe worthy and the Fresh off the Boat one slightly less, although I did find the Chinese grocery scene pretty funny.

 

Yeah I found both parents accents pretty tacky.