interesting article on portrayal of Asian Americans in the Media

The Asian Equation

here’s a snippet:

“I went out for a McDonald’s commercial, and I was asked by the casting director to eat a Big Mac the way a Chinese person would,” says Tim Dang, producing artistic director for the Los Angeles–based theatre company East West Players. “And I said, ‘What do you mean, like, with a chopstick?’ I don’t know that the casting director was even aware of what he said, but it was, like, ‘Do you know how funny that sounds?’ Like we have different ways of eating other than through our mouths.”

(as a side note, tim was a floormate of mine way back when. ‘hi tim!’)

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