So this movie, I must say, really had me thinking.  The whole movie had me puzzeled, hence my question in class was  ”what is the point of this?” .  The idea of it being a representation of seeing Asians as having emotions/feelings makes me laugh.  Clearly we all know that humans have emtions.  I think people tend to believe that we stereotype more than we really do.  Yes, there is some exceptions, but not every always thinks of Asians as stonecold people who only care about education and success.

I’m not sure what to think of all of the segements in the (overall) movie.  Now that I think of it, I can see how they fit together but still have a difficult time understanding ‘why’.  The story that most touched me was the “Robot Fixer”.  The story of a mother and child always makes me tear up.  It makes me sick to think that people think Asians don’t have feelings.  I think that the director, and writer, stereoytped their own people in this clip.  Do Asian mothers really yell at their sons about being ‘stupid’ when they are on their death beds?  Are they really concerned about what type of job their child held while he is moments from death?  No mother in their right mind would be freaking out over it.  Yes, I’m aware I’m not Asian and a part of this culture, but I truly can’t fathom any mother doing this to their child during this time.

In regards to stereotypes, some cultures bring it upon themselves.  The majority of the pieces we have read all have these negative ideas about Asians brought on by the authors who ARE Asian.  Does anyone see a problem with this?  From the moment we started this class, we have all tried so hard to not bring up stereotypes that we feel towards this culture.  Yet it seemed so difficult to disregard them and ignore them ourselves because all of the authors were throwing them out infront of our faces.  We couldn’t help but talk and discuss about it!  So my question is why do Asians, if not all cultures, get upset when others stereotype them?  They are clearly doing it to themselves!  They know the stereotypes but don’t do anything about them.  The movie is a perfect example.  Of course they would put robots in there.  Robots +Technology=Science=Scientists=Smart People=Asians does anyone else see this equation as easily as I do?  What I’m tryig to say is, people shouldn’t get upset about things when they aren’t doing anything to change it.  And this goes for EVERY situation in this world, not just stereotyping.  But I think it’s important to keep this in the back of minds, the idea that people should be more open to everyone and every culture, including their own.