My belief of Asian culture not looking highly upon entertainment seems to prove the lack of Asians in media at all in America. I rarely see Asians cast as actors or actresses in TV shows or movies. I was watching the show Friends the other day and I realized that they were all white. Flipping thrrough the channels, I saw a few shows that had all black people in it and a good number of shows that had all white people in it. This did not surprise me one bit, seeing as I'm not in Asia so I would assume that there wouldn't be any all Asian shows, but I'm finding myself not being able to connect with the outside world on these shows as much just because it is not my culture. Not seeing Asians in TV shows hinders my experience of the show and the connection I can make with the show isn't as strong as the connection that others that are the same race as the actors can. It almost seems that if I don't want shows that are the same race as the people I'm surrounded by, I will be mocked.
Where I am from, there is a much bigger Asian population than at JMU (like I have mentioned earlier in my previous blog). I know that many of the Asians I talked to watched korean dramas and anime shows, but entering JMU I don't hear much about either of them. Of course, there are exceptions like Avatar the Last Airbender and Naruto that I know many Americans, regardless of race watch, but I remember my friend who watches anime was looked down upon by the white people at JMU in my hall. It was just a difference in culture on what each person finds as entertainment in media, but they still seemed skeptical. I used to watch quite a bit of anime when I was little and it was normal since there were so many people watching it with me, but I feel that at JMU I wouldn't be able to have a conversation about anime with the majority of the people because of the difference in the little media that I did consume as a child.
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