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  <a href="/slantyeyedmama/blog/5475540/crazy-rich-asians-has-everyone-saying-finally">CRAZY RICH ASIANS has everyone saying FINALLY</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message">Everyone Asian in my social newsfeed which is a lot of people, were all simultaneously jizzing and crying when Crazy Rich Asians came out and  again when it hit the record breaking box office numbers it did. Most successful studio Rom Com in 9 years! First all asian cast in studio film in 25 years! Best labor day weekend release of all time! Everyone says Asians love doing math and this time they certainly did.  The "finally" part came through in the #goldopen trending hashtag that circulated in our networks to encourage people to buy tickets, multiple tickets to send a message to the studios about the bankability of Asian product.<br>1. FINALLY we are seen as part of the pop culture conversation and we needed a fun funny light rom com to do it. NEEDED that. Before this the vibe was "oh you are asian so do a, you know exotic story about Asian Stuff." Something serious that justifies you taking up screen time. About Asian Stuff. Like a college class you will force audiences to take about asian-ness. (But no interest in a story about things everyone can relate to like love, and greed and mean girls. Led by Asians) or "There is an Asian lady part in this so we need an Asian person to tell this part of the story." (Not, There is a lady character let's see if we can cast an American who happens to be Asian to embody her story. ) so finally our Asianness didn't have to be plot point or a piece of exoticism or stunt casting.<br>2. FINALLY Asians had a clear platform on which to prove the Money Talks Bullshit Walks thesis of all American business and media. There was no ignoring these numbers and everyone celebrated out collective success at being seen as human persons with love and mean moms and hot guys and drunk parties. And no one had to do martial arts.<br>3. FINALLY my colleague Lyris Hung said "finally a movie where i don't feel like an outsider looking in at other peoples lived experience and trying to localize myself in it. I grew up in Connecticut. I am an American. But nobody ever sees me as that."<br>4. FINALLY a studio also had to acknowledge an audience wanting to see fun cool scripts made with or, WITHOUT "name stars". Everyone in that cast meant something to us and there were familiar faces. But no one was a marquee blockbuster star and a lot were pretty unknown.  Surprise! a good movie works with passionate, talented people in it!<br>I don't have a point other than to echo the op ed in the new york times that says we need more like this, including and perhaps especially crazy normal mundane and even mediocre Asian American films and stories. The right to tell a just ok, just amusing, not earth shattering story seems o be the domain of the shite privileged mucky mucks who run the entertainment business. And David Spade. We should be able to have our own David Spades and you know sort of Ok actors who make us laugh. Or do a two hour movie staring into the camera which everyone knows sucks but still wins oscars. We get to suck and be great with the same freedom as the white people. That's equality!</div>
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  <div class="message"><div class="MsoNormal">The Aloha Brouhaha<p></p>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YoNUIQwShKE/VXHVHIs6VsI/AAAAAAAAARE/YLKzLcvD6FQ/s1600/aloha-movie-poster-2015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/-YoNUIQwShKE/VXHVHIs6VsI/AAAAAAAAARE/YLKzLcvD6FQ/s320/aloha-movie-poster-2015.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="245" width="320" /></a>A lot of casting Asians to play Asian roles controversy has come up in the last year. When I saw the poster for Aloha and saw blonde hair blue eyed movie stars standing in front of the Hawaiian landscape pleading with their eyes for us to all give a shit about their romantic mishaps and misunderstandings I rolled my eyes and thought about how another opportunity to put beautiful brown people got eaten up by the machine. Then people started freaking about how a character in there played by Emma Stone (blonde/blue) is actually called Allison Ng is part chinese and reps Hawaiian culture. They bitched about it so much that Cameron Crowe said whoops my bad then pointed to all the native Hawaiians he gave jobs by shooting there. It reminds me of british colonials saying how grateful the Indians were that they had jobs being their servants. It also reminded me of people in turn of the century france and En<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>saying where is MY all American and they are not wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>But Hollywood is a business. They look at numbers As I said on facebook:<p></p>
</div>gland putting on chinesey looking dresses and decorating with enamels and that beginning the orientalist craze. The brouhaha about casting is also about just generally feeling unseen. If I describe the cast of Aloha as typically “all American” the Asian americans who have been paying taxes and buying movie tickets and getting fat off fast food just like everyone else are <br><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #10131a; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“Just as banks are a business. a bank doesn't care if you achieve your life's dream to own a house with a white picket fence. They care about fees bonuses and their personal portfolios. Hollywood does not care about your dream to be represented or have your story told. They care about selling tickets and the way they do that is by making you "aspire" to something (something more beautiful than your humdrum life somemething more noble, rich, etc.) Once in a while by accident an artist peeps through with a story that "matters" but mostly its a cash proposition. Emma stone did not audition for the role of Allison Ng. It's a lead. It was an offer and the conversation was like "who can we get on this list who will sell tickets." And by the way the foreign sale, the sale of the american dream to all the ticket buyers overseas is an Abercrombie and Fitch type play-- the utopian white unattainable romantic white america. You think my relatives in indonesia care if the cast of the movie looks like them? Nope they WANT to see white people because they have been taught for decades that THAT is beautiful and desirable. so listen all ye outraged artists and activists. You want to see more roles for asians? You want Hollywood to expand its terribly narrow view of what is beautiful START COMING TO SEE MY SHOWS. START GOING TO SEE ASIAN PLAYS IN GENERAL. BUY TICKETS TO MOVIES STARRING ASIANS. GO SEE GEORGE TAKEI ON BROADWAY. HIT LIKE ON MY SLANTY EYED MAMA FACEBOOK PAGE. HIT LIKE ON ANY ASIAN ARTISTS PAGE. VOTE FOR THE ASIAN CONTESTANTS ON THE VOICE. STAND THE FUCK UP AND VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLARS. this is America. Money talks bullshit walks. Get involved by supporting writers who write asian stories. 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mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Today I was on a very interesting panel at the first ever National Asian American Summit on Media images, stereotypes and  represent-asian held at the center for democracy/Japanese American Museum in Los Angeles. We were the final panel, on new directions for Asian America, what's next and what's up in the arts and popular culture. My wheelhouse so to speak. And I was asked one question in particular that distills a lot of the cultural thinking we are all doing about the actual A/Pi identity in the media and in the personal realm and in terms of the community activist and otherwise. What is the Brand of Asian America and what does it mean? Is it a good one or a bad one.<p></p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I spent the last decade as a freelance brand consultant for various corporations and institutions. I also worked at a great company called Siegel and Gale which is one of Omnicom's finest branding firms in New York City for some pretty major clients. When asked why I, juilliard trained actor, stand up comedian and playwright and entertainment producer would spend so much time in the branding world my answer is simple-- I like the art side of business and the business side of art. Branding is really the art side of business. When you are building a brand you are considering what message you want out in the marketplace, what audience you are targeting and all about that audience, and the messages about your brand that already exist.<p></p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">For Asian Americans this is a very complex question-- what is the brand of Asian America. At countless college summits and Asian heritage months and symposia where I have been the keynote speaker we address this question under a multitude of titles and nuanced perspectives: What is Asian America? Is there an Asian American community? What are its attributes? What is the direction of community building in Asian America? What makes you an Asian American? (that last one is literally a branding question.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><p></p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">There is no easy answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>And here’s why. Asian America is still a term that really umbrellas a diaspora of distinct cultures under one title. Chinese Americans and Thai Americans and Japanese Americans etc are all bicultural in their inherent connection to the cultural mores of their Asian motherlands in juxtaposition with their lives as Americans. We Asian americans actually have a tri cultural experience: Our American-ness, our culturally/family specific ethnic mores and histories, AND our Asian American-ness. This last element of the triptych is the most difficult to define. And it is made more complex by the continual influx of immigrants in waves, and different waves from different countries at different times to boot. A 4<sup>th</sup> generation Japanese American is going to have a very different relationship to the words Asian American than a 2<sup>nd</sup>generation Cambodian. Fact. And as new people show up and become americans it’s a groundhog’s day of laying down the roots of “what is Asian America?” because the answer changes every time someone new gets here and has their experience added to the pile.<p></p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Part of brand is how we are perceived. Like I said when building or re-imagining a brand you look at what the marketplace already thinks of it—how it is perceived, what stereotypes exist, what expectations exist. So that is where Asian America, unfortunately has the strongest brand identity. In the often unflattering eyes of the media which is where stereotypes become such a hot topic of discourse. Which is why everyone is freaking out. Especially American born AP/I’s who cant relate AT ALL to the pidgin speaking noodle sucking nerd boy dragon lady sex kitten king fu master math genius wily suspicious clown like lampooned characters we see still very much alive and well in popular culture. <p></p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Obviously that is not at all our total brand package. We do have Jeremy Lins we do have Kate Riggs we do have John Chos we do have Lisa Lings. But they are still pretty few and far between.<p></p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">So here’s what I said to the group today. This is America. Money talks bullshit walks. We have a duty as Asian Americans who are raising consciousness and fighting for the kids in college and high schools around the nation still paralyzed between the pressure of being Asian and the pressure to be cool, slash assimilate slash separate themselves from words like chink and geek and whatever else subtly or not so subtly makes them outsiders in their own nation. We have a duty to support the few voices that are breaking through. With cash money. That means you buy not one but two tickets the next time a movie like Better Luck Tomorrow comes out. That means you go see that play or listen to that record and pay for a download or buy a ticket to see an Asian Comedy tour. You vote with your dollars. <p></p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">What are you voting for? The self esteem of millions of Americans just like you. Why is self esteem and all this academic chit chat about representation in the media important?<p></p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Because every single time without exception that I tour a college and do some oral history interviews with Asian students, EVERY SINGLE TIME, I hear a suicide attempt story. Yes that is right. A suicide story. Inspired by the thankless, voiceless, relentless experience of feeling unwelcome every where you turn. By your Asian family who want you to act more Asian. And by your non Asian colleagues who deep down don’t get it and treat you like a foreigner, or just want you to assimilate much harder than you can. <p></p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">We need an Asian American brand and we need it now. So thanks Jeremy Lin and thanks Lisa Ling. But also thanks everyone who is attending summits and being brave and living with grace and joy and looking for connections to both Asians and all the other Americans. And to those who are artists and media makers who are trying to execute direct change along the chain of information we consume. Keep talking keep thinking. Our brand is under construction. But for right now at this point in history i borrow from my own motherland for our Brand tagline: Unity In Diversity.</span><p></p>
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  <div class="message">I am still wearing my Jeremy Lin jersey (actually I have two NBA Knicks Lin Jerseys and one tshirt) all over town with the insane pride that against all odds Jeremy Lin just stuck at what he does and kept doing it and doing it and kicked so much butt last season on the Knicks. (somewhere his asian mom is saying "why didn't you kick TWO butts?") You gotta wear the colors when someone from an under-represented demographic proves all the stereotypes and the predjudices and the exlusionary politics wrong. In case you need a lexicon:<br>Asian men suffer in this country from, amongst other things, the perception that they are:<br>Not athletic<br>Nerds<br>Un sexy<br>Quiet<br>Meek<br>Sort of gay<br>Un cool<br>Easily dismissed<br>Second bananas.<br>Hardly the stuff that American role models are made of. So when a guy like Jeremy Lin kicks butt in an Arena So unused to seeing Asian Americans prevailing, and surrounded by his sterotypically higher status race-as-athletes, it is a moment to hang on to. Tiger Woods is part of that too and I am so glad he calls himself Cablinasian no matter what anyone else says. And that scandal, well once in a while, seeing an Asian man as a skirt chasing Lothario who makes the girls swoon, that aint such a bad thing for the rest of the guys out there. Self esteem = the ability to get up in the morning, try, strive for your dreams. We are crippled without it. So Jeremy Lin, I am wearing your Jersey to remind everyone that WE ROCK.</div>
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