Why does the media or film industries never imply the real challenges that Asian or Asian Americans face?

  People that are Asian or Asian American heritage are just like any other.  It would be better if the media tried to help out Asians instead of portraying things that are racial. China provides a big labor force. Yet that is not the big picture China right now is suffering with its people for the economical stand. “While China has raised hundreds of millions of people out of desperate poverty in the last 60 years, there are still 128 million people living on less that $1 per day (World Bank defines poverty as less than $1.25/day)” (Poor Economics and China’s 128 million people living in poverty).
Although this is a big problem China’s nation is facing, media does not release this to the public. Leads people to believe that China may not be the only country with this problem yet nothing is done to better the situation. The people of China believe that there should not be any more poverty campaigns but more sufficient system that would get a majority of the population out of that category.

In the past, Chinese families placed great importance on children because there was no social safety net; for China’s poor, this is still the case (the one child policy is not as strictly enforced in the countryside, only a handful of my 300 rural students were only children). Instead of treating each child as an equal opportunity to be supported in the future, each one is seen as a lottery ticket, and all of the family’s resource are pooled behind the most promising child.” (Poor Economics and China’s 128 million people living in poverty)

 

     The media should rather show the public the horrific struggles that Asians face like China for example. As Chinese struggle to have a quality life for there loved ones they seek opportunities elsewhere. Chinese that migrate to new places and America being one of them; is where many Americans may see the Asians as a threat. As for the problem this shows that many of the young children in China are not getting the education they should be. As the issue is more to be on the government level, it remains that these children will be in the labor fields at a very young age. Not only does it affect the Chinese population, but it makes more people turn into migrant workers. Some children are left behind with other family members and their parents leave to another place for a better way of life. Yet that scenario might lead to portraying in that image in a negative way. This would be a negative connotation that Asians might be invading other territories.

http://seeingredinchina.com/2012/03/29/poor-economics-and-chinas-128-million-people-living-in-poverty/

Fu Manchu and the Yellow Peril are very negative stereotypes which should not be portrayed in media. Let China be the example that shows these stereo types have ascended to racial slurs. For Asian and Asian Americans there are true struggles, and the media has done well keeping them from the public. Media has a need to have these stereotypes because it makes people worry more about name calling for individuals, rather than showing a true negative issue. These two stereotypes are nearly small vessels compared to the many terms that are used to depict Asians and Asian Americans. Although these stereo types have made a negative impact on Asians, they have surpassed the false slurs. The media may continue to portray these certain aspects of Asian Americans, but the people will not stay behind. The Asian American culture has stood out from the rest in many ways, and in reality positive ways more than negative. Media might have to find some other way to stereotype Asians and Asian Americans because they are by passing as little men.