Posted by NYC XYZ on 02/27/06 21:54

As Mayor Bloomberg said, you might as well stick to your principles,
because even if you fail, you've at least still got your priniciples.
Margaret Cho was in the dilemma of either compromising to get something
on the air and hope for the best or not compromise and likely not
getting anything at all.

I'm not sure what the answer is...basically, as an Asian-American, you
HAVE TO BE NICE...but of course, this country doesn't care for nice.
On the one hand, mainstream society thinks it's our fault for not
speaking up, etc. -- but when you do, they think you're getting too big
and bad.

Well, it should be interesting to visit SCAA in the year 2050, given
Asian-America's growth rate, and see where it all leads....


http://www.slate.com/id/2136087/?nav=tap3

EXCERPT

All-American Girl's mysterious afterlife springs from two contradictory
sources. The first is quasi-sociological: It was the first prime-time
show ever to star an Asian-American family. (The DVD's ad copy speaks
of this as a cultural triumph roughly on par with desegregation.)
Second, and more interesting, the show has become famous because Cho
built her post-sitcom superfame by trashing it (she called it "Saved by
the Gong," among other things). In Cho's personal mythology,
All-American Girl became symbolic of the spiritual gang-rape we like to
call mainstream American culture. And, thanks to some wormhole deep in
the fabric of capitalism, Cho's abuse of the show apparently functioned
as a weird kind of masochistic advertising. For the first time ever,
people wanted to see it.

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