I’m thinking about adding a paragraph in my paper about how media representation of Asian cuisine. As I mentioned before in an earlier post, it seems that Asian American food has made it’s way into media. One particular show that touches this is Rick and Morty where they make fun of Panda Express (I actually understand why). However, I wonder how I should talk about this in my paper because I don’t exactly know if this is necessary to talk about since there is a page limit.
Month / November 2017
Film
I thought this was a very good film to watch because from my perspective I don’t know much about the Indians who came from Uganda. I first heard about South Asians in Uganda from an article that I read and that was it.
On a side note, I wonder how many South Asians stayed in Uganda. Plus, how many of those who stayed survived?
I found a few short documentaries on Idi Amin on YouTube. Most of them have the fact that he was part of one of Britain’s imperial armies. That seems to be a very common fact on most military dictators in European colonies.
Idi Amin (left)
Reggie Ho
For those of you who are wondering if there are any other Asian American athletes, there was a college football player named Reggie Ho who was a key placekicker for the 1988 Notre Dame Championship team. There is a short documentary about him called Student/Athlete.
http://www.espn.com/30for30/film?page=student/athlete
Adding
In my paper I am currently adding my perspective of my history with Asian-American food. I think the one problem that I cannot confirm is the fact that I still can’t tell if a dish is Asian or Asian American. I’m still debating on whether or not I should keep some of the facts and quotes that I found from the books I read.
On a side note I did eat Panda Express on Saturday.
Reading
The book kept me thinking about a crossroad because of the way it depicted two, maybe three different lives of what could of happened to all those Vietnamese orphans.
One other thing that came into question was the first chapter where the woman drops off her child at the orphanage, where I believe that the children could have been dropped off in a number of different ways.
Vinh kind of made a good point where he asked, “What makes you so special”? However, someone can ask him the same question.
Film
The Beautiful Country took place in a time that surprised me. If the setting is 1990 then the main character must have been born sometime in the late 60s maybe.
I was actually satisfied with the ending when Binh finds his father and works with him. However, I believe that a sequel could have made for this considering we don’t know what Binh would do if his father passes away.
I always wonder how Vietnam Veterans would react when they saw someone of Vietnamese descent. In the one scene where Binh meets a few veterans who have missing arms, they ended up giving him a ride. This is probably one out of many reactions that veterans would have done if they met someone who is Vietnamese.
Super Teams
We should all know by now that the popular kid show, Power Ranger, is the American version of the Japanese series Super Sentai. There are a number of differences between the two though, but here are the main ones:
- I notice in the Super Sentai series blood is present
- There are 4 rangers that are American original
- Some of the storylines for the Power Ranger teams do not match up with their Japanese counterparts
- Super Sentai is much older than Power Rangers. Don’t believe me? Super Sentai has 41 total teams since 1975. Power Rangers has 20 or 21 depending on how you count Power Rangers Megaforce and Super Megaforce
The following does not contain the 41st Sentai team.