Unfortunately, Star Trek also had Klingons. (Who were stand-ins for Asian communists.) memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Depicting_Klingons Edit: In regards to the "They were Soviets, actually" replies, I should have said they were _largely_ stand-ins to imply they were not solely such stand-ins. Obviously(?), the Soviets were also communists, so _of course_ there would have been Soviet analogies to be made.

I thought Klingons were representing Russians. I didn't know they represented Asians too. Thanks.

@@LuckyJujube well, technically Russians are Asians. But I never had that in mind seeing Klingons.

@@TheMidwestAtheist Basically for Russia, yeah. But at least the real Russian was working in the crew, so I'd still call it progress. They also had an episode about two alien races who were enemies to each other, with faces that were half white and half black. Only difference? the one had the right side black and the other had the left side black. They hated each other and had been at war for a long time. Showing the stupidity of fighting because of skin-color. Also-also, before Lt Uhura came on the screen, there had been NO black people in a sci-fi movie or setting or anything. Tehre was no representation of black people even existing in the future before Uhura. Star Trek might not be the best thing since cheese, but it made a lot of "firsts".

I felt the same way about Uhura. I thought the show as groundbreaking in a lot of ways. They even managed to include a Russian character, at a time when the US was deep into the cold war with the USSR.

It reminds me of the scene from the movie “Dragon: The Bruce Lee story”.Bruce and his girlfriend, Linda, were watching “Breakfast at Tiffany’s “. When the Andy Rooney scene was shown, Linda realized how offensive it was to Bruce. It hadn’t occurred to her prior to that how Asians would be offended by the character. DRAGON was an excellent movie!

Rooney's racist preformance is why I refuse to see that movie

Yeah, that was *really* bad.

It makes me want to curl up and die. Its disgusting.

@@mocuishle1028 were they watching 60 mins with Andy Rooney? lol

Same for South Asians (like Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, etc.)!

The thing about Harold and Kumar is it plays on the idea that Asians are not represented. That's hardly a win.

As the child of Mexican immigrants, I can relate ... apparently we can’t speak proper English for some reason 🥴🤬 Add a British one, let’s see what happens 😆 Good luck

Does the term Asian American include people of Indian/Pakistani arc descent?

@@yodel1300 yes

I remember watching an episode of Gotham years ago that had a Chinese-American guest star role. Most of the comments were some variation of "wow, I can't believe who good [blank]'s English is. He even sounds like a New Yorker!" Spoiler alert: the actor *is* from NYC. I was born in LA and have lived here my *whole* life so I wanted to reach through the computer screen and just throttle those people. Smdh

@@yodel1300 yes. You can also say south asian to more specify the indian sub continent.

I was gonna say Crazy Rich Asians, but that movie was actually an indie film.

@@alondathomas293 Made by Asians, marketed by Hollywood

Hey, He once played Genghis Khan (for real) in a Howard Hugh movie and later may suffered for it. The movie location was, I believe, filmed at a site downwind from all these above ground nuclear test explosion. The fallout exposure later contributed to a life long battle with cancer that eventually killed him.

He did regret taking that role.

@@JeffreyPiatt Regret is one thing, actively using your super stardom to make a difference is another.

Kim's Convenience is SO GOOD!

She Probably didn't mention Kim's because it was made in Canada.

And Into the Badlands!

Kim's Convenience is Canadian, so it's not really relevant to how asians are represented in American culture, BUT also it'd be cool of Bee, as a Canadian, to give it a nod. It is really good.

I heard Kim's Convenience was cancelled a season early because one of the show runners/co-creators was ousted for not being Asian, and his partner refused to do twice the work alone so just quit. I was really looking forward to the pay off of Appa and Jung reconciling.

WMAF is cancer

especially Mark like to beat up Asian in real life

That’s why I watch cdrama, kdrama and jdrama. Maybe someday American will do great show with Asian has well !

Yes, but there was a lot right about his character to. Like as in he was a fencer in one episode and not your typical racist 'samurai sword wielder' or 'kung fu expert'. Honestly, for its time, it was ahead. And yeah, if you made that character in a version of Star Trek today, there' be a lot to change. But there was, in the modern version of that character.

@@KelRiever Yes, they were quite good and progressive in the original series, both casting and writing.

@@RoxnDox Not too much when it comes to women. Those had to wear highly unprofessional but sexy miniskirts, had minor roles and were mostly there to be romanced by Kirk in every episode. Do you know that it had been originally planned to have a female first officer called “number one” which should have been played by Majel Barret but the producers insisted it had to be changed to a man?

@@Celisar1 well, some progress is better than no progress...

Celisar1 I guess someone said to him make it so.

He’s long since passed away, but what an incredible actor and human being. RIP. ❤️

They also forgot the late greats jack soo and don ho. And need I mention is was also the Democrats who enslaved them and Republicans who freed them, just like African Americans.

@@thomasbenau2810 Ah, a party switch denier

Park ChimMin So they didn’t free them?

@@thomasbenau2810 The Republicans that advocated for the emancipation of slaves are different from the Republicans today. Same with Democrats back then and Democrats now.

It was Bruce Lee's idea for the show later to be "Kung Fu." He was not cast for the role because the show's producer confided to his wife that Bruce Lee was TOO Chinese for the role just like they have a white guy with makeup play a Asian male in "Miss Saigon!" 😫😭😖🤮

I was a bit surprised Sam overlooked that whole thing. I was in high school when Bruce played Kato on TV series The Green Hornet. All we wanted to talk about who was that Bruce Lee guy? Totally amazing!

I think in that series they did at least acknowledge that there was no way this guy was going to pass for Chinese. His character was half American and wanted to go to America as it was part of his heritage. It did at least embrace the positive steriotypes, but there wasn't any reason an asian actor wouldn't have worked just as well.

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I'm gonna have to agree with you there!

#time's up Market Mark!

Mark (The Happening): "What! No!"

Never thought that guy was funny.

What do you think of Mark from omni man? He's both white and Asian too

The ancient one is actually a whole different level of hurt cause they didn’t just cast a white actress to play an Asian character, they rewrote the character’s backstory to be white from the very beginning

@@xanderfulton3186 They did this to appease the Chinese Communist Party because Tibet is a no no for them and Hollywood loves the Chinese market. I was not pleased.

@@downbythelakehouse9120 Yeah, I definitely heard that.

@@kendrarasberry3078 which means it's doubly racist because it conforms to racist expectations in two countries :/

There a bigger market than the US domestic market and to get in some films are getting investment from Chinese studios to get around the limit on import films. Basically the investor from China tells them what to change to make it past the censorship board in China and they distribute it there sometimes with extra footage with native actors. Iron Man III has a China exclusive scene with Tony Stark meeting with a Stark Industries scientist played by a Chinese actress.

Made in Japan by Asian writers and directors.

Yeah but that wasn’t done by Hollywood

For similar reasons the Ancient One casting didn't bother me that much. And if a female Asian woman was cast in the exact role instead of Swinton, they'd have be accused of perpetuating the Dragon Lady trope (What bothered me more was the erasure of Tibet for China's sake). They tried to do something similar with the Mandarin in IM3: trying to turn stereotypes on their head. They might not have been successful but I don't think it was just racism. But the Doctor Strange franchise still has time to redeem itself by including a wider Asian cast of sorcerers, not just Wong, in future movies 🤞

It was actually because of issues with releasing the film in China given the political tensions between Tibet and China.

That was The Conqueror. There's a line in there about women being no better than the second squish of a grape.

I see your point about how the movie idolizes the mega wealthy however it’s still break stereotypes because it doesn’t relegate them to the side character that they can be used to make jokes about thin eyes, ascents, eastern magic jokes or ninjas etc. Give them a complete story.

No it was very much an Asian story. One of the major themes of Rachel's story was the disconnect between the (Asian-)American culture she grew up in and the Singaporean culture her boyfriend was from. There was so much Singaporean/Chinese culture embedded into all aspects of the story that you can't just gloss over them.

@@irams8486 it looks like it idolizes them but it’s actually a statement on rich people since it’s through Rachel’s perspective criticizing classism. Because sure she gets to enjoy their luxuries and have some fun but the elitism never disappears completely.

@@shouldbewritig I kinda agree but I believe the book achieves this better then the movie tho

I so love her ❤️

The director had Swinton in mind early on. He wanted the Ancient One to be female but thought casting an Asian woman would feed a stereotype so he went Celtic so he could work with her People assume China has more say in movies than they actually do. The movie that fills me with rage is The Martian. Most of the book Asian characters were replaced with white or black actors as if they're all interchangeable.

@@tiawilliams5690 apparently they are all interchangeable. Unfortunately in one direction. 😔

@@tiawilliams5690 I know the Indian character, Venkat I believe, was played by Ejiofor. Who else was changed? (though Hollywood doesn't count Indians as 'Asians', do they? We are South Asians to them. Even in the video, Sam is talking about a specific ethnicity and not all of Asia).

That was just an excuse mate. Did they asked CCP? Nope just excuses

Kurosawa made Seven Samurai as a homage to American Westerns. Sturges made Magnificent Seven as a tribute to Seven Samurai.

@@glennanderson3684 And he credited Seven Samurai as inspiration for film, so you are wrong in calling it "stealing"

To be fair, I think this segment was specifically about "Hollywood" as in American cinema. It's cool to see a Korean film get so acclaimed, but I don't really consider it as "representation" for Asian Americans.

@@clairekim2525 If that's the case (which I highly doubt but whatever, you might be right) there would've been no reason to mentioned Minari, it's also a Korean film with no context to Hollywood whatsoever. But I don't wonna fight, I agree with Ms. Bee, just thought Parasite deserved to be mentioned.

@@Balooza79 Oh, I see why there might have been confusion! Minari is an American film released by A24 and written/directed by Lee Isaac Chung (who was born in Denver and raised in Arkansas). It's about an American immigrant family who starts a farm in Arkansas in the 1980s, and it's loosely inspired by his own experiences. Because they're immigrants, over half of the dialogue is in Korean, but it's still very much about the "American dream" and the experience of Asian Americans. The confusion might have arisen because the HFPA forced the studio to submit Minari as a "foreign language film" in the Golden Globes campaign. It should be noted that this decision made a lot of people (including me) really frustrated, though, because it demonstrates the HFPA's lack of understanding about the difference between language and cultural identity. variety.com/2020/film/news/minari-foreign-language-film-golden-globes-1234874332/

His performance in The Sound of Metal is NEXT LEVEL. He's so talented!

@@pot8ho Love Riz, it's on my list to watch.

He's definitely worth mentioning (!) but because he's British I guess he doesn't fit as the "first Asian American" to be nominated...

In Hollywood only East Asian = Asian. The rest are South Asian, if even that.

I mean... why are you throwing other people who are stereotyped under the bus to make a point about how stereotypes are wrong?

Really? He tried to get his record expunged, the little weasel...

Jack Soo was always a hip modern Asian.