On Hollywood Arabs

After watching the video on how Arabs have been terribly misrepresented in Hollywood I'm starting to notice many trends for other races of people as well. Working off stereotypes, just as the "terrorist" is always an Arab, Asians are quite often depicted as several distinct characters. Young Asian men are typically martial artists or a computer whiz. Young Asian women are typically martial artists and/or sexual objects or seductresses. Older Asians are portrayed as people of wisdom or as owners of small restaurants/shops with a loud mouth. These racial stereotypes certainly aren't as terrible as those associated with blacks and Arabs, but they are nonetheless giving the public wrong generalizations. I definitely agree with bell hooks that racism as a visual rhetoric must be made aware and stopped.