Image by Pawel Nolbert is licensed under the Unsplash License. Asian people are no strangers to being characterized as passionless and mechanical. This perception causes us to be perceived as robots, contributing to an existing implicit bias that Asians lack emotional intelligence and communication skills. Such a portrayal then justifies the techno-Orientalist fearmongering that pervades current political discourse in America, particularly the tension over technological development and trade conflict between China and the United States.
This characterization is deeply intertwined with the model minority stereotype, one which is certainly no new phenomenon. In 1988, political cartoonist Garry Trudeau published this […]
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