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**UMATURLIN** · 10-31-2010, 01:43 PM

I only can say I like Asian culture(especially japanese) but I don't know about how media portrays asian people besides the known stereotypes.

There is no such thing as "Asian culture".

Japanese share a lot of cultural traits with Viets, Chinese, and Koreans due to shared contact with China, Confucianism, similar type of Buddhism, but they don't share many traits at all with Indonesians, Cambodians, Filipinos, etc.

That is like saying "I like African culture".

Bitterender is right the media thrives on stereotypes, but these stereotypes are the ones that elite white (often Jewish) New Yorkers and Hollywood types hold and they transmit them around the globe.

10-31-2010, 01:43 PM	#32
UMATURLIN Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 446 Senior Member	I only can say I like Asian culture(especially japanese) but I don't know about how media portrays asian people besides the known stereotypes. There is no such thing as "Asian culture". Japanese share a lot of cultural traits with Viets, Chinese, and Koreans due to shared contact with China, Confucianism, similar type of Buddhism, but they don't share many traits at all with Indonesians, Cambodians, Filipinos, etc. That is like saying "I like African culture". Bitterender is right the media thrives on stereotypes, but these stereotypes are the ones that elite white (often Jewish) New Yorkers and Hollywood types hold and they transmit them around the globe.
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