Posts Tagged ‘Asian American’

SAG Confirms Lack of Media Diversity

In Art, Film, History, News, Opinion, Racism, TV, fame on 27 October 2009 tagged African-American, Angry Asian Man, Asian American, Caucasian, Diversity, Hispanic, Ken Howard, Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander, SAG, Screen Actors Guild, Variety with Comments

Angry Asian Man points out that given the decade old census statistics, Asian-Americans are evenly represented, but another question to ask is what roles are they portraying?
As always, the specific roles available for a certain minority group is just as (if not more) important as the actual number of roles they have portrayed. It may [...]

Kal Penn to Work for White House

In DC, Film, News, Politics, comedy, fame, india on 7 April 2009 tagged Asian American, Barack Obama, Entertainment Weekly, Fox, Harold & Kumar, Indian-American, John Cho, kal penn, New York Daily News, Star Trek, White House, White House Office of Public Liaison with Comments

Kal Penn has always seemed like an oddity – on one hand he is an astute cultural observer and on the other he has pandered to many media stereotypes about Indians and Muslims throughout his career, but now it seems as John Cho is preparing to board the Starship Enterprise, Penn is headed to the [...]

John Cho and an Angry Asian Man talk Asian American Representation

In Film on 8 April 2008 tagged Angry Asian Man, Asian American, John Cho with Comments

Yesterday, everyone’s favorite Angry Asian Man posted an interview with John Cho, co-star of the Harold and Kumar films and now Sulu in J.J. Abrams’ upcoming re-imagining of Star Trek.
As in many interviews with his Harold and Kumar co-star, Kal Penn, Cho’s interview shows that though he has constantly thought about being Asian American – [...]