Name: 亞洲人性別刻板印象的怪異歷史｜解密｜MTV News (The Weird History of Asian Sex Stereotypes | Decoded | MTV News)
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why don’t Americans think Asian men are sexy?

FRANCHESCA: When it comes to online dating, Asian women

while Asian men on the other hand have an incredibly low favorability rating.

So why are Asian women desired to the point of being fetishized

Asian women in this country are more than desired,

Heck, you’ve probably heard someone say something kind

I totally have yellow fever and the only cure is more Asian chicks.

combines a presumed submissiveness with hypersexuality,

that Asian women are exotic regardless of where they’re from

or what they’re like as individuals. Don’t believe me?

Here’s some things that have actually been said to my friend Lily.

LILY DU: “I’ve never dated one of your kind before.”

“They’re more docile.” “They’re just tighter…”

FRANCHESCA: Thanks Lily, and I’m really sorry.

While the history of Western Europeans fetishizing Asian women

it exploded in popularity in the late 1800s.

This was due to an increased trade with Japan and China

and the popularity of the French story Madame Chrysantheme.

In the story, a naval officer travels to Nagasaki

and takes a temporary wife, basically a hookup for his deployment.

The girl he was looking for had to be a “little, creamy-skinned woman

He also wanted her to be “pretty and not much bigger than a doll”.

Unless you’re talking about your real doll.

FRANCHESCA: And in one scene, the narrator

describes how the local women “grovel before me on the floor,

placing all this plaything of a meal at my feet”.

FRANCHESCA: And this story became super popular.

It was translated into every major European language

and republished over 200 times during the author’s lifetime.

It was also the inspiration for the opera Madame Butterfly,

and it still performed hundreds of times a year.

This narrative of the exotic submissive Asian woman

got further reinforced over the course of the twentieth century

approximately two hundred thousand Japanese women

as part of the Recreation and Amusement Association.

This practice of organized prostitution continued through the Korean

LILY: So that’s something to talk about at your next family reunion.

and it’s no wonder the stereotype of the submissive sexy Asian woman

Of course when it comes to getting dates and being seen as attractive, history

has helped Asian men to face the exact opposite issue

when Asian immigrants began coming to America

Asian men have faced harsh discrimination,

Some laws prevented Asian men from owning property,

which made you legally “less of a man”.

Other laws barred them from heavy industry,

which forced Asian men to take on traditionally feminine jobs

which led to the perceptions of Asian men being effeminate.

LILY: Cooking and laundry aren’t inherently feminine.

I barely know how to cook and barely do my laundry.

were prohibited from entering the U.S. altogether,

which left hundreds of thousands of the Chinese men

who were already here without the possibility of brides.

Why? That’s because due to anti-miscegenation laws,

it was illegal for Asian men to marry white women in many states.

laws passed in the 1920s made it so that nonwhite women

who married Asian men could lose their citizenship.

This complex system of laws was a direct attack

on Asian men’s ability to marry and start families,

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