Portrayal of Asian-Americans in the Canceled Sitcom, All American Girl

Portrayal of Asian-Americans in the Canceled Sitcom, tout ensemble American GirlEver since arriving in this country, Asian-Americans have been misunderstood and discriminated against. Lately things have gotten better, but there be still people trying to further change their situation. Margaret Cho, a Korean-American, is whizz of them. In the late 1990s she got her own situation comedy, All-American Girl. This was a perfect chance to improve the portrayal of Korean-Americans, and Asian-Americans in general. Positive AspectsAll American Girl telled galore(postnominal) positive portrayals of Asians in a modern day society in California. The show is the first show in history to have a multi generational Asian cast portraying a Korean family in America. The grandparents are typical Korean people who came to America wholly the steering down to their grandchildren who are all American (All American Girl).Despite a great deal stereotypes present in the show, including the portrayal of an average Californian teenage daughter chasing boys, All American Girl does show some of the general Korean traditions. In one episode, Margarets, the main character, mother is upset at her granddaughter for move a non Korean boy romantically. The theme of Margarets romance continues into the beside episode when her new Korean boyfriend wants her to be the typical Korean woman (All American Girl). Another example of Korean thinking in the show is portrayed when the grandmother blames the severely luck of family on bad feng shui. Feng Shui is probably a term that most Americans are oblivious about, and this show brings it to light.All American Girl made a good elbow grease at trying to educate the American people on the Korean way of life and traditions. People living in America run away to ... ...owed to date?Hiltbrand (p.17) argues that the show takes cheap shots at Asian culture and makes unsportsmanlike use of stereotypes. He says of the show, In its own warped fashio n, this misshapen sitcom reminds me of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis -- only with rickshaw jokes. Grade C. Here you can bring in some of the negative sentiment that people had towards the show. Hiltbrand uses the example of Rickshaw Jokes to postulate his opinion that when it came down to it, this show wasnt all that much better than all the other stereotypical portrayals of Asians in other shows, despite its good intentions.All American Girl, while having its positive aspects, was still seen by many as detrimental to the Asian-American community. It is unfortunate that because of network executives and ignorance in general even a show that has good intentions still leaves people out in the cold.