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           In my last blog, I touched upon how Tiffany from Bunk’d is the epitome of the “smart Asian” stereotype— she’s abnormally academically intelligent yet socially unintelligent, she’s pressured to do well in school because of her “tiger mom,” and the show only attributes her intelligence to her Asian-ness without showing how much extra effort she’d have to put in to rise above her peers.     There are several ways to address this problem and rewrite Tiffany so that she’s more of a 3-Dimensional character and not just a positive stereotype. The first and most obvious one is to make her socially intelligent as well. The show already demonstrates that she’s academically intelligent— in one episode she and Ravi build a wifi router from scraps they’ve found around the camp grounds. However, she’s also portrayed as awkward and socially unaware. Despite being more academically knowledgeable than the oldest characters in the cast, she doesn’t share...

      The smart Asian stereotype is a prime example of a positive, racial stereotype. The assumption that “all Asian Americans are smart” seems like an uplifting compliment, but in reality creates a disturbing, distorted perception of the Asian American community that does more harm than good.      Tiffany from Bunk’d is one of the most exaggerated, most spot-on embodiments of this stereotype. How do I know this? Well, all of the jokes written in the show for her are about her obsession with academics, or her fear of her tiger mom that generates her drive to be book-smart, the fact that she’s only academically intelligent but lacks socially/emotionally intelligence, and lastly— I was the one who played her on TV.          As an 11 year old actress just starting to make my way into the film industry in 2016, I was pretty clueless to the repercussions that taking on the role would have to the entire Asian American community. Looking b...

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