January 15, 2004
AP Chinese???

Okay, I guess I've known about this one for a while. The college board is offering an AP class in Chinese Language and Culture. Oh I wonder if that's going to be popular amongst the exam school cliques. Duh!

Well given that the role of the Asian male is shifting from the geeky nerd, back to the idiotic stoner/slacker, although kind of positive, I think it's a bit of a rehash, think about it who in the world would think of the line "What'sa happenin' hott-stuff?"

Are people cheating on this college board exam as well. Sheez...

I'm still puzzled by David Henry Hwang's "Flower Drum Song" sure it's obviously racist, how can anything portraying Asian Americans in the 1950's seem not to perpetuate the stereotypes of the age. And Rogers and Hammerstein, aren't exactly known for putting forward accurate portrayals of complex issues related to multiethnicity.

Study your face and you will see—the shape of your face is the shape of faces back many generations—across an ocean, in another soil....The stories written on your face are the ones you must believe. —David Henry Hwang, Family Devotions

Posted by justin at January 15, 2004 10:45 AM
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