Feel free to add common myths about the East that you’d like cleared up. Or how you’ve already cleared it up. It might help me or another reader.
Feel free to add common myths about the East that you’d like cleared up. Or how you’ve already cleared it up. It might help me or another reader.
Just watch any television show or film from the 70s to the 90s and you’ll see the root of it.
The doctors and nerds stereotype is the newer version while the older version is more about spiritualism and magic. Kinda funny how “magic Asian Man” became “Chinese doctor” and “Spiritual and Wise Chinese man” became “Nerdy Chinese man”
There’s also the “All One People” trope where cultural identity for all Asian people are flattened. Kinda how all Asian restaurants are labeled as “Chinese restaurants”, this is improving thanks to more representation of those subcultures in food and media, but it’s still around.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InterchangeableAsianCultures
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Orientalism