Big in ’09 – Asian Guys.

I don’t believe what I’m seeing– are Asian guys actually getting their due?  For the longest time, the Asian girl has justly been the sought after gender of the Asian community, which when it buckles down to it, is totally understandable and justified:

Right???

Anyway, I’ve noticed this growing trend of Asian guys as the desireable commodity in terms of interracial mixing.  For the greater part of the last last century, there’s been this whole emasculation of the Asian male in mainstream westernized culture– for whatever reason, he’s seen as (for the most part) either nerdy, feminine, or a caricature of several Asian (or AzN) archetypes– racers, gamers, kung-fu masters, anime fiend, etc. etc. etc.

However, in the past couple of years, these stereotypes started to normalize.  I saw Gran Torino a couple of weeks back (it was okay), and for all the racial pandering (I seriously think the movie was just an excuse for Eastwood to say all the racist shit he could think of), the caricature of the Asian male presented was seriously… dated. Eastwood had rather drab characters that didn’t “feel” current. Rather, all Gran Torino served to do was exploit Eastwood’s dated notions of racial mixing in today’s catalystically progressive America. 

How did this happen?  I think for one, there’s been a rather dramatic shift in the relationship between East and the West.  As Eastern culture’s slowly been indoctrinating the West, there’s been a suble undercurrent of transition brewing on both ends.  This is starting to manifest itself in popular culture and the media and can be seen everywhere.   In essence, the Asian dude is no longer getting the short end of the stick (no pun intended).  At some point, it wasn’t weird anymore to be attracted to them and this expansive train of thought is spreading like the plague. Or maybe it’s just all the PinkBerry’s popping up.

Anyway, in spite of all the broo ha ha, this is a blog about trends and pop-culture, so what I’m getting at is that Asian guys are in style this year.  Think about it– the Asian male experiences the same success ($$$$) of the standardized “white male”, while retaining all the cultural roots and values that make being a “brown” person in this country worthwhile.  It’s wonderful.  It’s diversity.  Asian girls dating white guys? I mean, it’s cool… if this was 2005.  PLAYED. OUT. Jk. Date whoever you want.

But just keep in mind, this is the new shit:

See that? She kept going back for more.

// Caspian de la Sanchez