Enter the Digital Dragon: Beyond Love You Long Time and Long Duk Dong
In the 21st century, new voices and faces have emerged to challenge these stereotypes and create new paradigms, and nowhere is this more evident than the internet, where outspoken bloggers, self-made YouTube stars, MySpace rockers, political activists, and other squeaky wheels are acting up and out to represent the diversity and difference within our community.
Hollywood and other mainstream media used to have a strong hand in defining Asian-American identity, from hooker with a heart of gold Suzie Wong to foreign exchange student Long Duk Dong, geishas to karate teachers, dry cleaners to sidekicks. In the 21st century, new voices and faces have emerged to challenge these stereotypes and create new paradigms, and nowhere is this more evident than the internet, where outspoken bloggers, self-made YouTube stars, MySpace rockers, political activists, and other squeaky wheels are acting up and out to represent the diversity and difference within our community. DISGRASIAN explores how and why the web is changing not only the way the world sees us but how we see ourselves.
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Jen Wang and Diana Nguyen are the authors of DISGRASIAN.com. They have been featured on NPR, Metro NY's "Best of the Blogs," and Michelle Malkin's website under the "Word of the Day." Jen and Diana also contribute to the Huffington Post's political satire site, 23/6 (http://www.236.com) and are developing a series called "Hollywood Slant" for Super Deluxe (http://www.superdeluxe.com), Turner's web channel. DISGRASIAN.com serves as media partner to the Asian-American voter initiative GENERASIAN VOTE, sponsored by Norman Lear's non-partisan, non-profit Declare Yourself, where Diana is Associate Director. Diana received her B.A. from the University of California, Riverside, and Jen received her B.A. from Yale and M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Columbia University.