Typecasting Asians

McDonalds Ad

Do you have 30 seconds to spare to watch this short commercial?

Okay, let's go ahead and watch it then.

Office Full of Kleptos Meal

Harmless Fun?

What do you think? Funny? Cool? It's alright? Okay? <Shrug>

Now whatever it is, let's just be honest here, if Paul was not an Asian guy, would you still think this ad would be funny, cool, alright or okay? In fact, would it have been aired at all?

And seriousy, would you think, this would have even been conceived in the first place, if Paul would not have been an Asian guy?

Stereotyping?

And again there are over 2 billion Asian Guys in the world, why does it seem like this same (stereotypical) Mr. Yunioshi type Asian guy look is casted.

Why not any of the other Asian guy looks -- the Daniel Kims, the Hiroyuki Sanadas, the Donnie Yens, the Bolo Yeungs, the Sharukh Khans, the Tony Jaas, the Monsour Del Rosarios and the Ian Venaracions?

Yes, but it sure wouldn't have worked for the "concept" of the ad.

Typecasted

Ken Jeong as Ben Chang in Community

And that is where the main issue, lies.

Asians (whether East Asians, Far East, Southeast and West Asians) just seem to be the ideal race to work with, to fill the typecasted roles of a willing bullying victim, or people who wouldn't fight back, people who would stay quiet, take the abuse and move on, or in this case, be a "happy" victim of office kleptos. And this would really be putting a whole new meaning to the term "happy meal".

But why not, right? And for sure, because Asians have taken it and rolled over for generations. But guess what? This might be "fun" for some of you, for Mcdonalds and their ad agency, but this is not right and it shouldn't be the case, and it shouldn't be the case anymore. And because no one other race will fight for Asians anyway, than Asians themselves should.

ANTS Up, Asians!