*You can't really tell in this still photo and if I could have, I would've posted the video clip of it but a photo was required and so I did my best to find the still photo of this scene.
In this scene, just like in today's every other very popular comedic show, Family Guy often airs episodes with racial/stereotypical slurs of every possible ethnicity in almost any degrading way. In this scene, what appears to be of a stereotypical Asian, specifically Chinese, man and his son conversing about being a doctor. The father barges into the room, without knocking, sternly asking/yelling, "You doctor yet?" in an Asian accent. The son replies in a very innocent, sad, depressed sounding tone, "no dad, I'm only 12." The father replies "Come talk to me when you doctor," again in an Asian accent. This scene of course portrays all of the racial stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans and I don't have to prolong what stereotypes it portrays but how the "politics of representation" comes into play.
Many of these comedic shows like Family Guy, South Park, The Cleveland Show and others all usually get their views and high ratings from the comedy they display and that comedic relief usually results from racial slurs/episodes or statements. Family Guy has an episode where there are track runners, two white men and three black men, and the white men get a head start while the black men get a 5 second delay. Within 5 seconds though, the black men catch up running behind the 2 white men and as they pass, one of the white men say "Oh... *gasp* I thought they were coming after us!"
It's quite sad how society laughs and gets comedic relief from such episodes and because there are so many television shows and children who watch these shows, these are the kinds of race bodies that are produced and are produced through the media.
The media is what poses all of these raced and classed bodies. Where Asians are "supposed" to be smart and "nerdy" (a doctor) at age 12 or are presumed to have failed life and have their parents disown them (potentially what Family Guy was posing) through the tone of the father's voice and the son's sad reaction. As for the track episode, it is posing the argument that black men are only good at sports/athletics (fasst runners, delayed start) and that if not that, they are bad, feared, dangerous men ("I thought they were coming after us!"). Television media displays it so bluntly and easily, and the message is conveyed and laughable but also continues to instill this idea of stereotypes and racist comments through its entertainment of "humor." Every image forces a position, every moving/motion picture does that and more and projects it 100x as a still picture would. The television media industry is what I would consider most responsible for the racial positions it forces us to take, for their shows are aired daily and to the whole world.
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