ABCs New Sitcom Wants to Challenge One of TVs Biggest Stereotypes Next season, an Asian-American TV family will make television history by helming the first Asian-American-focused sitcom since Margaret Chos one-season show. Even with an estimated 18.9 million people of Asian descent living in the U.S., Asian-Americans on television are vastly underrepresented. A few shows like Elementary (which stars Lucy Liu) and The Mindy Project (which obviously stars Mindy Kaling) focus on empowering Asian protagonists. There are also a few shows out there with compelling Asian secondary characters like Veeps Danny Chung, Grey Anatomys Cristina Yang (at least until recently) or Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.s Agent May, but by and large, Asian characters on television shows get sidelined (think Kalinda Sharma on The Good Wife or Tina on Glee), painted with broad stereotypical strokes or are never even written at all.
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 04:23:31 +0000
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