Media

Representatio
n Of Asian-
Americans
Emily Cook, Sean Lutovsky,
Lucas Pervinich, Molly Phanchinda
Background
Fresh Off the Boat
Thesis Statement
The stereotypes that mass media use to portray Asian Americans
change the way they view themselves in American society and the way
they interact with the dominant culture.
Fresh off the boat
Stereotypes
Highlighted Class Concepts
*Cultural identity
Survey results-who(Demographics)
took
the survey?
Average Age: 25

Gender: 65% women, 35% men

88% US born, 12% Foreign born

11% lived outside of the US, 89% did not

Ethnicity breakdown-who
took the survey?
Asian American 27.05%

African American 7.38%

Hispanic/Latino 11.48%

Caucasian 57.38%

Other 9.02%
On a scale of 1-5, 1 being not at all
accurate and 5 being extremely
accurate, how accurate do you think
the media portrays Asians and Asian-
54% of those
Americans?12.3%
surveyed indicate
41.8% the media is
40.98%
inaccurate, less
than 5% believe
4.92% it is accurate.
0%
Asians and Asian
Americans tend to excel in
math. 19.83%67% of those
47.41%
surveyed believe
this stereotype is
29.31% true; about 3%
3.45% believe this is
false.
0%
Asian and Asian American
mothers tend to push their
children harder than the
average parent. 28.45%
74% believe
45.69
this is true,
21.55 less than 5%
3.45 disagree.
0.86%
Asian/Asian Americans typically
have a stronger work ethic than
the average person.
13.79 58% of those
surveyed
43.97%
believed this to
34.48% be true, while
8% believe this
6.9%
to be false.
0.86%
 Asian/Asian Americans usually
have a traditional sense to
culture (family, social life,
78% of those
religion).
31.03%

surveyed believe
46.55%
this to be
19.83%
true;less than 3%
2.59% believe this to be
false.
0.0%
Data analysis-what did we
notice?
54.1% said media representation is inaccurate, but on average,

only 4.53% believed the stereotypes to be false.

Only 4.92% of those surveyed say media representation is

accurate, while on average, 69.25% believe the stereotypes to be

accurate.

Stereotypes not shown in show were disagreed with

When you
hear the
term "fresh
off the boat,"
what are the
first three
words that
Responses from Asian-
Americans
Asians are portrayed as smart and in a sense, I feel that if I don't do
well in school, then I am subpar and inadequate

I would generally either fit into the stereotypes people had of me/Asian
Americans or the perception they had built before even meeting me,
just to try to fit in and make friends with no issues
Conclusion
Most People believe the media does not accurately represent media,
yet believe the stereotypes portrayed.

Stereotypes alienate certain groups of people.

Ingroup and outgroup begin to believe stereotypes

Not everyone fits stereotypes

Being expected to act a certain way leads to cultural identity issues

Feel out of place when they dont fit the norm of the majority

Feel out of place when they dont fit stereotypes of their group

Being expected to fit one group or the other puts strains on creating