Sunday, October 9, 2016

Fox Chinatown piece stirs outcry

link: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/us/2016-10/07/content_26984146.htm

On Monday night, Fox News reporter Jesse Watters aired flip man-on-the-street interviews with people in New York City's Chinatown about the 2016 election and US-China relations for a segment called Watters' World! on The O'Reilly Factor program. In the five-minute segment, Watters teased elderly Asians who don't understand English, made fun of residents' accents, greeted people with a bow and, in some eyes, reinforced some of the most pejorative stereotypes of Asians.The segment that makes fun of Asian stereotypes is causing outrage, and it's spread from the internet to the streets. 
Protesters including Congresswoman Grace Meng joins elected officials and community leaders standing in fornt of Fox News headquarters to protest a segment on the O'Reilly Factor program that they feel mocked residents of Chinatown. Meng said that the Asian-American community should never be treated as second-class citizens for the amusement of others. 
If the TV news could make fun of Asian American with the incorrect stereotype as well as treated not as equal as American citizens, I truly don't know the discrimination will somehow appear in the job market or not (such as people who are holding working H1-B visa might get lower wage than other employers, a sign of no equity.)

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