It’s a contradiction that most people who perpetuate stereotypes of Asian American have never stopped to figure out.
Kat Chow in her blog for NPR Code Switch points out the number of tweets she found after the crash of Asiana Flight 214. Several played on the facts that pilots from a Korean airline were behind the controls.
The typical tweet went like this: “Asians can’t drive, what makes them think they can fly a plane”
Yet in the same breath, those same people will likely tell you Asians are good at math and technology.
Kate Chow calls it the “racist stereotype oxymoron.” It’s one that seems to apply to other ethnic groups as well.
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You can read about it in NPR Code Switch.
from Kenny Rowland via Facebook RE: racist stereotype oxymoron: We're allegedly sex-averse, but we also have weird fetishes. Also, there's like over a billion of us even though we supposedly never have sex