Fresh Off The Boat A Soy Sorry Joke - 1185 Words

Fresh Off the Boat: A Soy Sorry Joke? â€Å"The only way they could even mention some of the stories in the book was by building a Trojan horse and feeding the pathogenic stereotypes that still define us to a lot of American cyclope.† – Eddie Huang Fresh Off the Boat is a controversial ABC sitcom that premiered on February 4, 2015. It is based on a memoir of Eddie Huang’s Fresh Off the Boat. It has caught many media attention, as it is the first American television to star an Asian-American family in 20 years. The comedy series is about the immigrant lives of Eddie, his parents, and his two younger brothers. Eddie and his family immigrated to America so that Eddie’s father, Louis, can pursue the American dream. Louis opens a western-restaurant†¦show more content†¦The network won’t take that gamble right now†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (Kaplan). Although the show is a progressive step towards minorities in media, the dramatic stereotypes of the characters harms the identities in Asian Americ ans. Methods The media is the biggest tool of circuit of culture, and yet there are very few representations of minorities in media. Fresh Off the Boat is a cultural artifact for Asian Americans. â€Å"Artifacts are charged with meaning, but many of those meanings speak for our identification with groups† (Brummett p.55). The show represents what the group is like as a whole. This is problematic as the show represents Asian Americans as chinkified, â€Å"ching-chong† caricatures. The methods used for methodological perspective are the nodal points of the Circuit of Culture. The Circuit of Culture is representation, regulation, identity, consumption, and production. Out of these five, identity relates to the show the most. The show represents Asian Americans and reminds or shows the audience the experience of immigrants. Many Asian Americans tune into Fresh Off the Boat because it is one of the few times Asian Americans are able to identify themselves and their families with the cha racters as they experience similar experiences. It reminds Asian Americans the struggles and difficulties of balancing two different worlds and experiencing extreme prejudice. The writer for â€Å"Saucy Dishes†, Gish Jen writes, â€Å"And all for the distancing of the