AAS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sixteen Candles, Portrayal Of East Asians In American Film And Theater, China Doll
18 Dec 2015
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Whitewashing (asian roles change to white roles) ex 21, Physical appearance: breakfast at tiffany"s, william hung. Economic (job) pattern: a&f two wongs make it white. Cultural difference / lifestyles: wok, bowl, rice. Hinting that aas will never truly be accepted by their own country. Sense of self, culture conflict, sense of belonging. Asian american cultural values: collectivism: group orientation (interdependence) Splitting in half is so white patchworking : conformity to norms: respect to authority, emotional self-control: reservation of feelings, family recognition through achievement, face consciousness: saving face, losing face, filial piety, self-effacement: less assertive. Honoring parents (appreciation of parental sacrifice and feeling of burden) Asian american identity development (fobs, whitewashed, negotiating bicultural identities) Marginal man: bipolar marginality - ambiguity, tension, and uncertainty about who they are culturally (parental double instances: be americanized, but not too. Acting and being white: temporary negative images of the self and their culture.
