Comments on: 30 Rock: “My ‘No sex with Asians’ rule”

By: shirleywhirl

shirleywhirl — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:32:38 +0000

'No sex with Asians' was uttered by J-e-n-n-a. Hello! She's the blond bimbo! Used in that context, that rule was supposed to clue the viewers in to its outrageous-ness and baseless-ness. Not only that, Jenna realizes that rule of hers was an ignorant one bc she likes her Kwon.

What's up with these ethnic first names – couldn't they have written into the dialog, say, “Michael Leong” instead of “Kwon?”

By: uberchris

uberchris — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:05:58 +0000

For real. I was disappointed there were no asians in that John Adams HBO series too.

By: uberchris

uberchris — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:04:08 +0000

I believe we should all be racist to ALL peoples. That's equality.

Anyway, Matt, I totally agree with you. I think people need to lighten up.

By: uberchris

uberchris — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:01:09 +0000

Just to play devil's advocate… how do you feel about the term “white” or “european”.. or “african”

By: uberchris

uberchris — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:58:55 +0000

I don't have an issue with the 30 Rock scene but I would like to ask.. what variety of roles do Asian Americans have in the media? I would really like to know. Let's eliminate Asian American females though. Let's hear the variety of roles for asian males.

By: James

James — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:55:23 +0000

If you haven’t noticed, there are no members of the cast who are asian in this show. theres blacks, hispanics, whites, but, guess what..no main asians in this show at all, except for this kwon dude

By: acidflush

acidflush — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:23:51 +0000

Dude, you are far too sensitive. Or either a troll for posting this entry. At least she ended up having sex with Kwan, so all is good, right?

Should young people be offended that Liz had a no-dating-younger-men rule?

Most clever sitcoms these days take digs at all types of people of different races, genders, sexual orientations, ages, political views, cultural backgrounds, etc. 30 Rock is no exception.

Get over it, or stay away from prime time television.

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:48:57 +0000

Maybe you should watch less TV.

By: Asianannoyed

Asianannoyed — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:46:01 +0000

Matt:
Jews, Black, Hispanic, okay i’m sorry but just because you migrated, don’t put yourself in a pluralistic group that is dangerous and harmful to others, and if you’re in that situation, you should represent yourself, we migrated under certain circumstances, and I will gladly sit down and listen to each of your invidual experience.

The more you know, the better person you will become, and police should be educated people, because a law enforcement like you that carried a gun, and making life n death decision in split second, should have more knowledge to make better judgement. We all know how carried away a law enforcer in America operates dont’ we?
To defend bad television jokes that is supposedly “compassionate” and thought up by a hodgepodge people who themselves are confused and unread about the world except where they lived is a poor excuse. The best jokes are the ones about yourself, the worst is against someone else.know thyself.
Well read people will actually visit the library, and they don’t need to be educated by TV. Reality is that this hodgepodge americans are educated by TV from the likes of Cnn and questionable statistics that is convenience.
Ignorant americans don’t need to be exposed to more information that will further confused,and generate more misunderstanding. This is a country that evolved from conformity to self expressive invidual views that are down right ignorant and at times arrogant. More excuses will not work, silence should be the standard of excellence.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:08:38 +0000

Asianannoyed doesn’t like the term “Asian” because “it has a disrespect for cultures, countries, borders and boundaries.” I guess he/she also dislikes the terms “black”, “white”, “Hispanic”, etc. And probably also, say, “American”, because it doesn’t respect different cultures. But he uses the term “jews”, which doesn’t in and of itself distinguish between countries, borders or boundaries. And as far as cultures, it only refers to one aspect of culture, thought it has a connotation of categorizing into a similar ethnicity.

Think how hard it would be to do anything without categories, though. “Police are searching for the three assailants, all of whom were in their mid-20s. One was from ancestors who spent significant portions of the past ten millennia in either Niger, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Sudan, Zaire, …..” and then, five pages later “The other two assailants were from ancestors who, for the majority of the past ten millennia, made their home in either England, Sweden, France, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy, ….”

I also disagree with his stance on racial jokes on television. I think, if they’re done compassionately, as I think they usually are on “30 Rock”, that they go much further in the direction of increasing racial interaction, understanding, comfort and tolerance than they do in promoting segregating stereotypes.