Yellow Face Reflection

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For this reflection, I would like to focus on the topic of yellow-face of Asian Americans after reading the chapter “Defining trends: South Asian characters in American popular media.” But first, I would like to go over a few main ideas that I took away from this chapter: I am called a 1.5er since I immigrated to America at age of 8, which means I don’t relate to my parents (who are generation 1), but I don’t identify myself with the Asians born Americans (generation 2) either. I haven’t heard of the term until today. I’ve always heard people referring to Asians as either first gen. or second gen., but not a 1.5 gen. Secondly, Hollywood productions will only be a hit if the Asian/Asian American characters are Westernized, otherwise, they will the …show more content…
Even after 95 years, yellow-face is still prevalent and a dilemma to us, Asian Americans. Moreover, the Asian population has grown since the 1960’s, yet Hollywood is unwilling to work with us and rarely opened up their circle to us. I personally felt this affect first hand since I used to go to an academy that would train little kids to young adults to be entertainers. We had weekly auditions and we would frequently check the bulletin board at the end of class to see if we had any audition that we can go to that weekend. Whenever I would look at the bulletin board, I would walk away in sadness because not of agencies are looking for Asian talents. Never have I felt the white privilege so strong; I often walked away wishing I was taller, paler, with bigger, un-slanted eyes, a higher nose bridge, etc. thinking that maybe I would’ve been able to attend more auditions if only had I looked more Caucasian-like; that maybe I would’ve been picked up by more agencies. Not only were my fellow classmates getting more auditions than me, they were also started to get booked with jobs. I had none of that. I didn’t have the special white

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