#exotifying

Portraying Fantasy Cultures of PoC

Basically the things to watch for are accessorizing and othering. This usually happens when someone tries to fuse two cultures together while creating a fantasy world.

Don’t do that - don’t pick and choose what parts of a culture you like and shove them together with another things from another culture you like because this leads to accessorizing and othering.

Also - don’t have a culture in the background with no one from that culture in the world or the main cast of the story. (See: Firefly and its racist shenanigans.)

Good luck!

I'm a loyal follower of Modern Family, but the shit Sofia Vergara puts up with has to fucking end. Now.

The treatment of her character is an appalling example of intersecting sexism and racism. She's seen as a trophy wife for a rich man. She's loud, abrasive, and only interested in looking good and taking care of the family. That would be okay if she was a well-developed character, but she's not. She's nothing more than the stereotypes Latinas face. And she is very attractive, which means she is made to be an exotic beauty, furthering the colonialism in current society.

And that's not just on Modern Family.

http://www.latinorebels.com/2012/11/04/ellen-and-sofia-laughing-all-the-way-back-to-the-caveman-era/

Come on, Ellen, I expected better from you. Gay women are always exoticized and fetishized, and then she turns around and dresses as a racist stereotype for kicks?

Seriously guys. This woman is actually very talented, and Hollywood is making her into a fucking joke.

and it came from a white, American male. Surprise, surprise.

Apparently I'm awesome, cute, chill, fantastic to flirt with etc BUT NOT ASIAN ENOUGH to come near with a 10-ft pole. 

racism CHECK

fetishizing Asian women CHECK