I used to like Sam Pang but this skit has made me lose all respect for him.
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Okay, where do I begin?
The video above is a skit from an Australian television show, Santo, Sam & Ed’s Sports Fever! Watch it, and you’ll see Sam Pang’s (ironically, a Chinese-Australian) portrayal of Jeremy Lin, full of terribly crude Asian stereotypes.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority 2010 Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice which covers television broadcasting matters, has a whole section on the portrayal of cultural diversity, stating things like “Be sensitive to language and images which people from non-English speaking orminority racial backgrounds may reasonably find offensive or discriminatory”. The line that is relevant here is: “generally avoid outdated representations of how people from non-Englishspeaking backgrounds speak English or behave”.
Jeremy Lin, an Asian or Taiwanese American, who speaks fine English, has been made to look a stereotypical Asian, complete with rolled R’s, broken English, and other dull characteristics (DDR! Please…)
How can you help?
The video above is a skit from an Australian television show, Santo, Sam & Ed’s Sports Fever! Watch it, and you’ll see Sam Pang’s (ironically, a Chinese-Australian) portrayal of Jeremy Lin, full of terribly crude Asian stereotypes.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority 2010 Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice which covers television broadcasting matters, has a whole section on the portrayal of cultural diversity, stating things like “Be sensitive to language and images which people from non-English speaking orminority racial backgrounds may reasonably find offensive or discriminatory”. The line that is relevant here is: “generally avoid outdated representations of how people from non-Englishspeaking backgrounds speak English or behave”.
Jeremy Lin, an Asian or Taiwanese American, who speaks fine English, has been made to look a stereotypical Asian, complete with rolled R’s, broken English, and other dull characteristics (DDR! Please…)
How can you help?
- Channel 7 don’t accept complaints via e-mail, but do have other avenues of contact.
- Code of Practice complaints can be made at FreeTV Australia (which is the way I made my complaint).
- You can visit Sports Fever!’s facebook page, and leave them a kind word.