A few days ago we mentioned Jeremy Piven’s new movie with an Asian in it, and who’s basically the whipping boy in the movie. Piven’s certainly no no stranger to such a concept, as his character has his own whipping boy, Lloyd.
One* can’t help but wonder then what would happen if Piven were to be born in an alternate universe, would the roles be reversed?
But in any case, I love Ken Jeong as much as the next ethnic or non-ethnic alike.
Knocked Up, Role Models, and The Hangover are among some of the funniest movies I’ve seen in the past few years–and Jeong has been remarkable in each.
From an overbearing asshole doctor (his actual profession) to a geeky RPG player (he stuck with his roots here) to a gay mobster leader (this was a minor stretch) here he is in his latest role below:
Oh imagine that, he plays a small goofy Asian pushover who’s taken advantage of by his less uh submissive coworkers.
Why does this remind me of freshman year of high school?*
Minimize your World of Warcraft and Age of Empires screens boys, it appears as if there is at least one woman out there that doesn’t find all Asian boys geeky and reprehensible–but dare I say it find us desirable?
That one woman then happens to be none other than Megan Fox:
Hollywood Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen actress Megan Fox recently openly expressed her interest in Korean star Rain and also a desire to date the latter, who replied plainly to her invite, “I’m not interested.”
Not only does this mean that the object of the world’s current hottest woman desire is Asian, but since he’s allegedly turned her down that means that she’s available folks.
All you really need to be is an internationally recognizable pop singer, dancer, model, actor, CEO and designer with boyish good looks and metro hair. Did I mention ridiculously successful, rich, and have a body of steel?
On second thought then, better go back to raising that level 78 Orc “warlock” or “shaman” or whatever they say in the mountain dew commercial.
Do you really want a girl with a toe thumb anyway?
There isn’t much in common between these three letter acronym companies–one provides phone/internet/cable services to millions of people in the US, and the other slaughters chickens in a quick, allegedly humane fashion and serves it to people, thereby making them fat and killing them in a much slower, heart/artery clogging matter.
Logically then their marketing departments differ greatly as well, see exhibit A:
Here we have Asians and whites interacting in a, uh, relatively normal fashion; the neighborhood kids are simply re-enacting a soap opera because the man doesn’t have AT&T U-Verse which would allow him to record up to 4 shows at once on a single DVR but instead can only record two at any given time.
The astute viewer would notice the different races of the characters involved, but don’t really *notice* the difference races here.
Later on your favorite episode of Desperate Housewives then you stumble upon exhibit B below.
Now you’ve probably seen this commercial before as well, but if you were anything like me and my friends, you may not have noticed anything particularly out of the ordinary here–and even if you have it’s worth watching again regardless:
Now this isn’t to say that AT&T is out and about supporting the great Asian-American cause out there, while KFC is pushing Asians back to a time where Japanese were captured and forced into camps and the Chinese were building the nation’s railroads (at least not directly), but it certainly provides any interesting contrast as to how Asians can be viewed in the media.
All this talk of chicken is making me hungry though–Popeye’s anyone?
While his song wasn’t titled “Black or White or Asian or Latino” (it probably wouldn’t have been as catchy), there’s no doubt that MJ’s music crossed boundaries and it really didn’t matter if you were green, purple, or transparent–his music truly transcended through all races, as evidenced below:
Rev Sharpton praised Jackson’s message of love, his talent and his work breaking down “the colour curtain” and eradicating barriers. “It was Michael Jackson that brought blacks and whites and Asians and Latinos together”.
It isn’t the first time in recent memory that a public figure has recognized America as being more than just “black and white”:
There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.
-Barack Obama
Of course while on the topic of racial integration, we can never forget the forever memorable “I Have a Dream” speech:
I tried to find a quote by a non-black person as eloquent as the above ones were, but such a task proved to be more difficult than a non-Asian doing Linear Algebra or O-Chem homework.
Sorry guys, maybe next time I can come up with my own.
If they were aZn | Tien July 24, 2009 | 
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ev Sharpton praised Jackson’s message of love, his talent and his work breaking down “the colour curtain” and eradicating barriers. “It was Michael Jackson that brought blacks and whites and Asians and Latinos together”.