Spoofing a Stereotype

(Asian Pride Porn)

When it comes to Asians, many of us use the lens of a stereotype: dangerous power (all that blah-blah about the yellow race who will rule the world, or will inherit the Earth, whatever) plus promise of exotic prostitutes. It's stupid yet deeply rooted in our system of coordinates: the tribal picture of them against us. When it comes to stupidity it's nothing to do but making fun.

And fun makes Greg Pak with this 3 minutes infomercial spoof from 2000: Asian Pride Porn. Take it easy!

Note for my progressive friends: please, don't worry. The fact that Asian Pride Porn ends urging us to give up onanism and instead embrace activism does not necessarily make filmmaker Greg Pak a Tea Partier.

(Greg Pak)