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Regular Characters The Secret Asian Man comic strip features a few regular characters. All issues feature the character SAM (Secret Asian Man) who is a guy. His wife is white, but is never portrayed in the comic strip. Their son is a multiracial Asian American and White who is portrayed sometimes. Asian American Issues The comic strip deals with Asian American related issues. The comic strip believes Asian American history is not understood completely by the United States at large. SAM believes McDonald's "I'm Asian" advertising was misguided, because SAM identifies as an "Asian American" instead of just "Asian". SAM believes the Asian American entertainment awards superfluous, because Asian Americans should get entertainment awards in the regular entertainment awards ceremony. SAM pretends he's an Asian Fob with no English language skills to avoid talking to someone which brings up the issue of Asian American s being perceived as foreign by some people. SAM portrays the atmosphere of pan-Asian restaurants as a comical combination of elements from different Asian cultures. SAM believes Asian Americans are the targets of spam e-mail because they are marked with Asian last names. SAM would like to see more movies with an exclusive Asian American cast. Similarly, SAM was thrilled to see AZN TV which was a pan-Asian television network. SAM believs the United States' media lowered its standards for respectable portrayal of corpses during the Asian Tsunami . SAM would like to see more Asian male pornstars and anchormen with women of different races. He also would like to see more Asians in sci-fi flicks. SAM meditates over the relationship between an Asian identity and an American one. The Asian part of his identity he considers practically meaningless, because of the diversity and distinctness of people it includes. East Asian American Specific Issues Many of the racial issues labeled under the umbrella of " Asian American " are in reality only East Asian American issues or themes. It portrays Whites as grouping all East Asian American s as " Chinese American s". The comic strip portrays the magazine "Oriental Trading Company" to be non-Asian in nature and highly comercialized. SAM discusses the identity issues faced by Korean Adoptee s. SAM mentions the way East Asian Americans in United States cinema have been historically portrayed negatively. SAM mentions Hollywood's inconsitent casting of different East Asian ethnic groups for East Asian roles which feature a specific ethnic group. SAM is very proud to be of East Asian ancestry. SAM questions whether other cultures have an equivalent to interconnectedness of Buddhism and Shaolin martial arts. SAM is also proud of Chop Stick s, East Asian Martial Art s, Anime and East Asian noodles. SAM believes black men and white men are considered better sexual partners to white women than East Asian men. SAM believes William Hung positively represents East Asian American s because he is gutsy. Japanese American Specific Issues Many racial issues are Japanese American or Japanese in nature. A comercialized product mentioned is the Newman's own Teriyaki sauce. Someone stereotypes SAM as being knowledgeable about Manga , Anime and Martial Art s in a comic strip due to his Japanese ancestry. SAM brings up the unfairness of post-WWII hysteria and Japanese Internment Camp s. He lists funny examples of English to Japanese mistranslations in Japan. SAM highlights how some Chinese American s, Vietnamese American s and Korean American s are racist against people of Japanese descent, because of the war-time atrocities of WWII. SAM portrays Japanese American s to have an innate knowledge and preference for all things Japanese . SAM believse Japanese Americans are stereotyped as Ninja s, Geisha s and Buddhist s. SAM celebrated the passing the Japanese American actor Pat Morita . SAM considers the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan at the end of WWII and the attack on Pearl Harbor to be cowardly. Universal Racial Issues The comic strip also deals with broader racial issues. The comic strip deals with the practice of racial stereotyping. In one comic strip, SAM states he is against the practice of racial stereotyping. SAM believes the United States should give reparations to people for past injustices. He uses the example of Mexican American s who were deported under the Mexican Repatriation Program. SAM believes United States' movie roles which are not race-specific should be given to non-Whites more often. SAM highlights the way ethnic groups put people of great accomplishments on a pedastool if they are of the same ethnic background. SAM believes race-centered organizations are usually too narrow in their scope and exclude others, creating the racism they seek to stop. The comic strip remarks on the way people only rally to fight racism when it is against their specific group of people. SAM believes events of global unrest bring all people together. SAM believes sporting events which pit different nations against each other lead to racism. SAM believes White is considered normative in discussions on race in the United States and the term "ethnic" is only applied to non-white ethnicities. SAM portrays racially-based affirmative action to be racist and unfair. EXTERNAL LINKS |