Are Asians really that uncool?

Are asians really that uncool?", Asks the Youtube star KevJumba.

Sure we’re the stereotypical passive math geeks and our lives are mostly micromanaged by our parents who only finds it acceptable that we over achieve. And for fun we either play the piano or chess. But think about it, we know karate or kung fu. We can’t be that uncool.

So uncool are we that Hollywood decided to replace our Asian hero Goku with a white guy.(Fortunately I heard the movie was terrible).

It was hard to write this post in the mind frame that Dyer proposed typically because I am an international student and where I’m from; seldom do I see white people. Hence the construction of the “other” was typically white people.

It really wasn’t hard to idealize the notion that white people are of better standing when typically English is considered a superior language, image after image: we see a cool white dudes or a gorgeous white girl in our malls, movies and all sorts of media and a proper education is typically regarded as a western education. Thus I can’t really comprehend when Dyer writes about the normality of whiteness, where all other race is managed or thought of as different. Because the only “different” I was brought up in (in relation to white people) is that they are superior.

But with thousands of images like these(the one above), you can imagine why this was a specifically a hard topic for me to write about. The hero or central focus of the whole story has to be a white guy( who would have thought of putting an Asian in there). Probably speaks proper English which makes him cool already(not like Hiro Nakamura for Heroes) and has the archetypal muscular built of a white dude(which makes jealous). I am constantly asked to look at someone else through the lens of a white person, to think of white people as normal or even desirable but when I look at myself I find a discrepancy. Perhaps thats the reason why my society interprets white people as superior because of the discrepancy between what they are made to think of as normal and what they are made to think of themselves.

Now drawing from my genetically enhanced mathematical skills: white=superior=cool.

Than: Me (not white)=Asian=inferior=uncool. Noooooooo!!!!!!! The math never lies.

Uncool=(look below)