Yul Kwon: race war Survivor

All over the entertainment news, they applaud Mr. Yul Kwon for winning the race war TV show Survivor and for supposedly breaking racist Asian stereotypes.

Now I realize that living in the Bay Area and interacting quite extensively with Asians, my perception of Asian men and Asian stereotypes may be a bit different than most White Americans but let's take a look at this.

I think "breaking stereotypes" for Asian men simply means being attractive.
As if it is a shock that Asian men can be sexy after we are all forcefed asexual deviants like Long Duck Dong.
As a matter of fact, that is the ONLY factor any of the media outlets applauding Kwon go into.

Beyond that, Kwon is as cookie cutter stereotypical as you can get to represent Asian Americans.
Yul Kwon is a first generation child of Korean immigrants in Northern California. After becoming his high school's valedictorian, he apparently went on to attend Stanford and Yale where he majored in symbolic systems, which includes cognitive science, computer science, logic and philosophy.
With his winnings, Kwon plans on caring for his parents.

I guess good hearted Liberals don't care about positive stereotypes.

All anyone can be shocked about is "He's tall, athletic, staggeringly handsome".

I am not putting any of this on Kwon.
He actually backed out of the race-war Survivor season before being coaxed back in.
Aside from his working with right-wing fuck Joseph Leiberman, attending USMC officer candidates school, and drafting sections of the Homeland Security Bill, I got no qualms with this Korean dude.

However until Americans and American media can address actual racial stereotypes of Asians, I don't wanna hear any self-congratulatory shit about being able to find an Asian man attractive.




(thanx Mel)