Bollywood's Popular Culture in the South Asian Diaspora Essays

The 1987 film documentary Ethnic Notions directed by Marlon Riggs, identifies the evolution of African American cultural depictions through ethnic stereotypes and caricatures in American culture. I feel Ethnic Notions exposes the roots of false generalization from the beginning and presents a series of classifications for racial depictions that still are noticeable in today's society. These racial depictions identified with in this film begin in the mid 1800's and continue thought to the 1960's. I now after viewing Ethnic notions agree that there are generalizations and depictions that are exaggerated in American popular culture and entertainment.

Love and respect go hand and hand. Respect is earned but love is given, that is the only difference between them. Love should be felt all around the world and happiness will come with it also. But sometimes love isn 't in people 's hearts, that 's when wars are created and people die. A Lot of stories written throughout history have been about love, dedication to culture, and a race separated from respect and judged harshly. In the essays An Indian Father 's Plea, Gate A-4, and Just Walk On By:Black Men In Public Space, each tells of at least one and should be looked at with open eyes and minds.

Culture plays a big part on how you are as a person. A person beliefs are made up by their own unique cultural identity. Identity is what makes you who you are as person, and how does it defines you. Your identity doesn’t have to be just your ethnicity or how you look like, it’s way much more than that. While my culture is mixed with American and Asian aspects, Asian culture is most influential in my life because it helps me be motivated in school, affect my views on religion, and makes me have good deportment.

While watching the Ethnic Notions movie and reading the Collins’ essay, some of the images that made an impact are the images of the brute, and mammies, as describe by Collins. Throughout the early and middle of the 20th century, black people have been portrayed negativity in movies, TV shows, as well as books and this gave people the notion that black people acting like this in real life. People’s perceptions of black people were based on what they see in the media, but these perceptions can be changed with time. As I was watching the documentary, I can recall the disturbing ways that black people were portrayed and the fact that this has been happening for a long period of time. The portrayed of the brute for the African American male has been depicted as far back as the movie

Of Silk Saris and Mini Skirts: South Asian Girls Walk the Tightrope of Culture by Handa is about how the issues of race, ethnicity, and culture revolves around the lives of the South Asian women living in Canada. It is not only about how those specific issues affect their lives but also the impact of influence that others have on their lives. In the following book report, I will discuss the three main issues that the South Asian women face, the arguments that Handa makes, the theoretical perspective, the different methodologies used in the book, the style and prose of the book, and why I recommend Of Silk Saris and Mini Skirts: South Asian Girls Walk the Tightrope of Culture to others.

I have grown up my entire life on the metaphorical “fence.” Being a first generation American Indian, what I hear so often from the Indian community is, “but you’re not really Indian!” I’m tagged “whitewashed”, but at the same time I’m still “the brown girl”, never having deciphered to this day whether either is a stamp of approval or a term of derision. I never fully identified with the American culture, but was never able to fully embrace my Indian roots either.

Asian Americans have been part of America for almost as long as its existence. From the Chinese laborers building the transcontinental railway, inner cities laundry services, to Asian farmers who have helped build the agriculture communities around the country, Asian American have contributed to the industries and economy of America. Despite their loyalty and contributions to this country, Asian Americans have been discriminated and considered as “unassimilable” by many Americans. Racism toward Asian is further extended by Hollywood’s use of “yellow face,” where Caucasian actors applied make up and prosthetics to pose as Asians, stereotypes such “yellow peril” and “orientalism.” (Garcia, 13) From the beginning of motion

This paper tries to analyze race relations, ethnicity and how art and film relates to these social issues in their cultural context. Art and film have played vital roles in advocating for a society free of ethnicity and racism. Using vivid descriptions and evidence of both text and a movie this paper seeks to relate accordingly the concerned issues and factors affecting these social vices. It will demonstrate race and ethnic tendencies in diverse cultural contexts.

The cultural changes and continuities that were driven by political shifts that occurred in South Asia from 600 b.c.e to 600 c.e were the caste system, leaders using religion to form unity, and the widespread acceptance of dharma. Although the Caste System was always present in South Asia, it was not as active during the reign of Buddhism as it was during Hinduism’s reign. This was a result of Buddhism rejecting the Caste System entirely. Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of the belief, did not believe in the Caste System.

Thank you Kourtney, i felt like to give more information about Buddha since people do not know a lot about his childhood, since i'm from Nepal and knew it. The social structure from India is same in my country. There are outcastes who cannot touch others water, food, and cannot even enter others' houses. I used to feel bad for them because at last we are all human

There are many stereotypes regarding various races, one that comes to mind is about asians. For example, like their inability to drive. This has been a stereotype that has been believed to be true for a long time due to the fact it has been repeated consistantly. The video shown on MadTv showed the multiple preconceived notions people have about asian culture. Over the years, culture has been modified to fit into a box. People have gotten accustomed by putting labels on something they don't understand. In this case, asians have been boxed in to understand them as a whole. This is one of the many common habits culture as a whole has failed in expressing. Even though these stereotypes are only thoughts that have been expressed consistently, it

Although Hollywood provided exposure to Indigenous culture, the goal was not to raise cultural awareness but rather to reinforce dominant group status. Hollywood’s portrayal of Indigenous peoples as inhumane savages resulted in widened inequalities and laissez-faire racism which remains present in North America to this day (Diamond et al., 2010).

Hooks' term "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy" is an aspect of multicultural feminist theory because it is a central defining facet of the multicultural feminist theory. This term is crucial to her multicultural analysis of pop culture because, “upper-class White men and women have privileges [that are] denied to lower-class women and men of disadvantage racial and ethnic groups” (Lorber, 232). Furthermore, “white supremacy was that term that allow[s] one to acknowledge our collusion with the forces of racism and imperialism” (Hooks, Cultural Criticism & Transformation). Additionally, the analysis of pop culture by using the term “white supremacist capitalist patriarchy” explains the subliminally sexist, classist, and racist messages that are within the discourse of pop culture. This term is crucial in examining pop culture because it explain why certain sexes and races are depicted the way they are, and also why certain individuals have the privileges that they have. This term reveals the misogynistic, Eurocentric society that we live in, and it reinforces the messages that we are sent through pop culture every day.

“India’s production of tea has increased from 10.8% to 90.13% since the British East India Company started production in Calcutta, India over 35 years ago.” According to “India Tea News”, the British East India Company dramatically increased the production of tea in India in response to Qing China’s monopoly in the tea industry. During the 19th century, the British East India Company was focused on controlling India, political and military gains in India, and trade of spices and opium (Mohan). While the British East India Company was colonizing India and reaping the rewards, the British colonists were introduced to different aspects of tea and cooking styles from native Indians and Qing China (Liu). Soon after, the British colonists adopted the ideals/practices of trading/brewing tea from Qing China. Since the British were introduced to different types of tea, the demand had increased and thus prompted the British East India Company to intervene (Mohan). This paper argues that Qing China struck fear in the British East India Company which forced the company to use cultural imperialism throughout India and Europe during the 1840s-1890s.

As seen in most third transnational films from Asia countries, “popular cultural products criss-cross cultural borders everyday” therefore these cultures remain circulating in transnational cinema (Aquilia 2006). The power of transnational cinema could not be ignored as global screen reflects a transnational cultural exchange (Aquilia 2006). My clip shows that those sections of films we studied consisting crossover boundaries of actors and actresses, overseas settings and different cultures portrayed. Athique also argues that non-Indians and people with little Indian history background found enjoyment in the mixture of Bombay films (Athique 2008). Thus, transnational cinema in both ways depicted the cultural identity audiences can relate to, as well as transnational culture exchange among the globe.