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Notice any similarities about
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these East Asian women on screen?
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They all have what is referred to as
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the "Asian hair streak."
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It's a shortcut used by Hollywood and the comic book world
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to signal that a character is rebellious or edgy.
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There are a lot of examples.
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Back in 2014, the Tumblr blog Writing with Color
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found 12, and there have been more since.
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And for the most part, it's just a boring, racist trope.
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Oh, God.
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I look so
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good.
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The overwhelming amount of Asian girls
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with purple hair streaks is just like kind of ridiculous.
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This is Annie Shi.
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In 2017, she tweeted about the trend
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and there were thousands of retweets.
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It's just like a symptom of altogether,
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the non-diversity of Hollywood and popular media.
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Representations of Asians in American popular culture
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are very shallow.
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And so, if you only have a few Asians ever appearing,
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then if you have something like streaks,
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then of course it's going to take on a significance
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of bad or good.
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It wouldn't happen with white characters,
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because there's so many white characters.
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Kim examined the roles and stereotypes
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of Asian women in film and TV in a 1988 documentary,
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and revisited the topic in 2011.
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Twenty-three years later,
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she didn't find that much had changed.
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The same archetypes still exist today.
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Wow.
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The most common representations of Asian women
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were of them as docile, sex objects.
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Get massage from Chinese girl people?
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Oh, I got to have that one.
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Oh, let me get her.
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Her in the black, her in the pink.
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Hey, baby.
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Or as kind of sinister, dragon lady types
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who would stab you in the back.
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The Dragon Lady was sometimes sexy too.
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Or as completely deracinated,
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or sort of honorary white characters.
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The deracinated ones that I mentioned are usually
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helping the white folks, or being a foil
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to the white folks in the film.
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They're a sidekick.
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It's been an issue that's gone through 50 years,
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and it never really has gotten a whole lot better.
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Sum is a fantastic cook.
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And you won't eat better Thai food in Bangkok.
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More cellophane noodle, Mr. Harvey?
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Mainly, there were just no central characters.
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So, how do we solve the problem?
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It starts by giving Asian Americans control
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of their own narrative.
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If you give Asian Americans
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the ability to do the representation,
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to write the story, it will come out completely different
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from the usual stereotypes.
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There was one person who was the lead,
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and that was in the silent film era in the early talkies,
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and that was Anna May Wong.
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Although she played mostly Dragon Ladies,
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she was in some B movies that she had a voice
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in producing.
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She was a central character.
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She was not a Dragon Lady.
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She was not a Madame Butterfly.
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She was usually like an adventuresome doctor
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or some businessperson, or something like that.
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And what we want is just somebody who's a complicated
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human being, the way we know ourselves to be.
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We could deal with Dragon Ladies and Madame Butterflies
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if we had lots of other things there, too.
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In the 100 top films of 2017,
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65 films did not have a single female,
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Asian speaking character.
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By comparison, white females were only missing from 7 films.
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More East Asian women are needed on screen.
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And there needs to be more diverse characters.
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They don't need to be over-sexualized.
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Maybe some of them are coming of age.
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Maybe some of them are leads.
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And if they're rebellious, they don't need streaks
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in their hair.
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Hey, this really burns.
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You should rinse.