Taro Toporific wrote:Do not attempt to adjust your television set: There are no Asians here
By Joel Lanceta / June 8, 2004 in Voices, the Chicago Maroon
Have you also noticed that all of these movies are set in Japan? Did Hollywood forget all other Asian cultures, like Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino...
Duh. There's no marketing cache tied to those countries. The only example of any Korean breakthrough in American media was Margaret Cho's short-lived sitcom, "All-American Girl."
There's no mainstream interest in them, because nobody knows a lot about them, because there's no mainstream interest in them, because nobody knows a lot about them, because....
Hollywood's not in the cultural education business, it's in the money business. Don't expect that to change anytme soon.