Ok most of us are glued to our computer nowadays instead of being couch potatoes in front of the TV. Heck not only does the internet and its dizzying infrastructure turned into the #1 entertainment media of choice but it also now has become a mini society of some sort. Take me for example!
Not only do I surf the net for News, videos or just plain hanging out with my virtual friends online (chatting). I also have the idea that everybody that I know of wants to know every single thing that I do in my virtual life. After I finish this blog and published it, streaming RSS feeds will update all all my sites like MySpace, Multiply and Facebook which in turns updates the status update of that site that will filter back to my Twitter, Plurk and Utterlli! Or how about me watching a video in Flixster or simply listening to a music in I tunes and instantly updates my Uplayme player in Myspace informing people looking at that what videos or music I was listening just a few minutes ago, again sending out a stream into my Facebook and walla twitter gets updated as well!
Are you dizzy yet? Now if only I knew who among my friends or passerby has something to say about all of those things I do in the virtual world. Do you?
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You all might have heard or seen the Oscar winning Bollywood movie Slumdog Millionaire, who hasn’t? Its probably the first Asian film to garner world accolades and penetrate the Hollywood mainstream. Or what about the YouTube discovery, Charice Pempengco from the Philippines who most probably the first Asian World Diva in the making that is making waves in mainstream America with backup from some of the most powerful Hollywood personalities and studios.
Pan Asian Entertainment is currently the buzz in Hollywood, and rightly so! In the past Asians are underrepresented in World Entertainment. Besides Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan anybody remember the names of the singers and actors that have graced the silver screen? Hollywood for most part have been racially biased against Asians, even though Asians drastically populate most of the world with 4 Billion souls .
In America, Asian-Americans accounts for 10% of the population, yet Hollywood racial mix has been predominantly Whites, Blacks or Hispanics. Asians have tried to penetrate the Hollywood establishment for a while now, both in films and other media, but American entertainment industry has been very ethnocentric even to its Asian citizens. Don’t get me wrong there has been Asians in Hollywood who have considerable success. Vanessa Hudgens, Anna Maria de Tagle, Lou Diamond Philips to name a few, but their roles are most often non Asian roles. Asian actresses like Zhang Ziyi, Michelle Yeoh, Lea Salonga on the other hand have all been type casted for Asian only roles, and most of the time these are supporting roles. In Music there has never been an Asian Diva known worldwide but there are plenty of regional divas that can be leveled to almost every reigning American diva like Regine Velazques (Philippines), Anggun (Indonesia/France), Utada Hiraku (American born Japanese Diva), Coco Lee (American raised Chinese Diva), BoA (Korea) etc. etc. yet all of these regional Asian diva have had a hard time making it in the mainstream American industry even though they all speak English and at time are American citizens.
Maybe its time for Asian-Americans to fully support every single Asian artist out there that’s trying to break the current mold of Hollywood. Asian-Americans have 40 Million souls in the United States, we are the first supporters of any film/music artists that will try to break into the lure of Hollywood, whether be it homegrown or from Asia itself.
“When Hollywood is your stage, the world is your stage”
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