Asians are rarely are put into films or movies, and when shown, often they act the same as \u201cgeneric California\/New York city\u201d in culture. In some ways this is because it is always assumed they will integrate without problems. Yet rarely is the \u201cback-story\u201d of their family\u2019s culture shown, or the problems of the pull between conservative \u201cold country\u201d versus American values.<\/p>\n
The last film highlighting Asian immigrants was Gran Torino<\/strong>, by Clint Eastwood. Then there was Mississippi Masala.<\/strong> (By the great Mira Nair<\/em>) But I bet you can count on one hand the number of Asian stories on TV or movies.<\/p>\n What is not recognized is that \u201cAsian values\u201d has a lot more in common with the values of the Christian right than with the values of the elitist left. <\/strong>So in the \u201cculture wars\u201d, many traditional Asians stand on the same side of these issues as Christian \u201cfundamentalists\u201d.<\/p>\n Another problem is that many Asians come from entrepreneurial families, and so in financial matters, they may sympathize with the frugal in the \u201ctea party\u201d movement.<\/p>\n <\/strong>And then there is the immigration debate dilemma.<\/p>\n Many were poor on arrival, and needed a \u201chand up\u201d. For this reason, many Asian immigrants would be natural for the Democratic party, and feel uncomfortable with the Southern Republican establishment, with it\u2019s racist taint.<\/p>\n But the social values in the Democratic party, one that is rabidly pro abortion and pro socialism, also goes against much of traditional Asian values, such as the importance of the family, a work ethic, and recognition of the virtues of capitalism. This makes many Asians more at home in the Republican party.<\/p>\n Yet a press covering this election as a \u201chorse race\u201d ignores these issue related themes that could steal voters from Democrats even in safe districts.<\/p>\n <\/strong>The real work will be for Democrats to demonize Republicans as racist: but the presence of moderate Republicans like Djou and Governor Jindal and Congressman Cao will be a problem if they are allowed a voice in that party, especially if these immigrants and children of immigrants are allowed to be leading voices for just and fair immigration reform.<\/p>\n <\/strong>Luckily for the Democrats, the Republicans have not shown their ability to be street smart in these matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Asians are rarely are put into films or movies, and when shown, often they act the same as \u201cgeneric California\/New<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Joshua","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"1","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Asians are rarely are put into films or movies, and when shown, often they act the same as \u201cgeneric California\/New","magazineBlocksPostCategories":[],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":123,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Joshua","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1213"},"magazine_blocks_comment":1,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}