Asian American Audience Analysis
Audience Analysis:
The following essay are addressing the audience of people who shows, at minimum, an interest in Asian American issues of today, and is willing to take many different perspective on how each different issues are tackled by experts or people who have interest in it. A secondary audience could be people who has no general knowledge of the topic, but want to learn about Asian American issues and promote advocacy. Demographically, these people would be of Asian descent with an age range from 16-50 years of age. The audience would have a beginner’s level of reading skills and are willing to read the essay even if it goes against his/her belief or does not. I expect the audience to have a better understanding on how Asian Americans …show more content…
Asian American stereotypes are a product of myths that are spread by various media, from books, plays, movies, television, to even historical propaganda. An example of a myth that exist is that all Asians are nerds. The media has made this myth true by various TV shows like Grey’s Anatomy’s Dr. Christina Yang played by Sandra Oh where she was first in her class in Stanford University (Grey’s Anatomy, 2005) or Lloyd played by Rex Lee who graduated at Stanford where he was first of his class. (Entourage, 2004) Popular comic strips in the late 1890s called “The Yellow Kid” and “The Ting-Ling Kids” (Olson) are depictions of racial cartoons of the Chinese American for mass audiences. The roles these Asian Americans portray in media greatly affects how outsiders perceive Asian Americans and how they perceive …show more content…
In “Memoirs of the Geisha” (Memoirs of a Geisha, 2005) the main character was a Japanese female named Chiyo Sakamoto as it was portrayed by a Chinese female, Zhang Ziyi. M*A*S*H (M*A*S*H, 1972) was a TV show based around the Korean War, and Mako, a supporting actor who is Japanese, portrayed many racially different roles. He played roles such as a Chinese doctor, North Korean soldier and South Korean major. This gives society the negative stereotype that Asians all look alike, but common sense tells us that we do not and that we are uniquely different from one another. As media is a big issue to why Asian Stereotypes exist, it also might be due to how exposed they are to Asian Americans in their
The following essay are addressing the audience of people who shows, at minimum, an interest in Asian American issues of today, and is willing to take many different perspective on how each different issues are tackled by experts or people who have interest in it. A secondary audience could be people who has no general knowledge of the topic, but want to learn about Asian American issues and promote advocacy. Demographically, these people would be of Asian descent with an age range from 16-50 years of age. The audience would have a beginner’s level of reading skills and are willing to read the essay even if it goes against his/her belief or does not. I expect the audience to have a better understanding on how Asian Americans …show more content…
Asian American stereotypes are a product of myths that are spread by various media, from books, plays, movies, television, to even historical propaganda. An example of a myth that exist is that all Asians are nerds. The media has made this myth true by various TV shows like Grey’s Anatomy’s Dr. Christina Yang played by Sandra Oh where she was first in her class in Stanford University (Grey’s Anatomy, 2005) or Lloyd played by Rex Lee who graduated at Stanford where he was first of his class. (Entourage, 2004) Popular comic strips in the late 1890s called “The Yellow Kid” and “The Ting-Ling Kids” (Olson) are depictions of racial cartoons of the Chinese American for mass audiences. The roles these Asian Americans portray in media greatly affects how outsiders perceive Asian Americans and how they perceive …show more content…
In “Memoirs of the Geisha” (Memoirs of a Geisha, 2005) the main character was a Japanese female named Chiyo Sakamoto as it was portrayed by a Chinese female, Zhang Ziyi. M*A*S*H (M*A*S*H, 1972) was a TV show based around the Korean War, and Mako, a supporting actor who is Japanese, portrayed many racially different roles. He played roles such as a Chinese doctor, North Korean soldier and South Korean major. This gives society the negative stereotype that Asians all look alike, but common sense tells us that we do not and that we are uniquely different from one another. As media is a big issue to why Asian Stereotypes exist, it also might be due to how exposed they are to Asian Americans in their