The current trend of tribalism in the media and the continued stereotyping of Asian Americans

Over the past 10-15 years or so the media has transformed from
a majority white populated medium that tokenizes minorities to a
tribalized institution populated by shows with mostly white or black
cast members with tokenized white or black characters on these shows
and stereotypical portrayal for nonwhite and nonblack characters. Both
Asian and hispanic characters are stereotyped on these shows but Asian
depictions for the most part are the most negatively and divisively
portrayed of any of these groups. The current state of tribalism and

David Johnston...

No matter how much you campaign, I doubt they'll remove all Asian
characters from TV.

political correctness has allowed for fair portrayals of white and
black characters even for those that are tokenized on these shows.
Tribalism has allowed for sanctioned stereotyping of Asian characters
especially when political correctness deam negative portrayals of black

characters to be more consequential than negative portrayals of Asian
characters. Token white characters on black shows for the most part are

portrayed fairly since the entirety of the cast is black and there
really isn't any payoff to portraying the token white character
negatively on these shows.
Asians are portrayed negatively on white and black majority cast

shows in one way or another. They are almost always never tokenized and

on the rare occasion that they are, their roles are usually divisive,
stereotyped or exist to serve some backup punchline to the story.
On shows with a white majority cast, Asian female and Asian
male characters are portrayed divergently. Asian females are most
likely to be tokenized than Asian males on these shows as Asian males
usually get bit parts on the rare occasion that they are depicted. The
tolkenized Asian females on these shows are usually Americanized
(whitewashed) to the point that she could double for a white female
character without much change in the story line. She'll look Asian but
everything about her says otherwise. Besides being entirely
Americanized, she'll be paired up with a white male the majority of the

time or sometimes with a black male. She's usually pretty and
surprisingly the same height or close to the same height as her
NonAsian female counterparts. Her roles can be diverse spanning from
being doctors, lawyers, women with attitudes, submissive, likable etc.
Asian males on these shows however are portrayed entirely
opposite from Asian females. Asian male characters are usually
stereotyed and characaturized. They're usually unattractive FOB (fresh
off the boat types) with thick accents who work in chinese restaurants
or some stereotypical Asian occupation. Unlike Asian females portrayals

on these shows, the Asian male is significantly shorter than anybody
else on the show. They are usually not tokenized on any of these shows
as most are relegated to bit parts and background work. Among other
characters that Asian males portray on these shows are those that are
nonsociable, nonAmericanized, restaurant workers, laundromat owners,
gang members and any other stereotypical characters.
On shows with a majority black casts, Asians are portrayed as
stereotypically as shows with majority white cast but Asian males and
Asian females are portrayed in the same light. I've notived that there
isn't as much divergence in portrayals of Asian males and Asian females

as there is on shows with a majority white cast. Usually, both Asian
females and Asian males are portrayed as fobs with thick accented
restaurant owners, nail salon owners or any other stereotypical Asian
occupation. For the most part the Asian female characters are paired up

with Asian male characters at least from the majority of the instances
that I've seen. Neither Asian females nor Asian males in these
depictions are whitewashed but they do have some bit of urbaness to
their characters when they are depicted outside the usual stereotypes.
I've also notice that the disparity in physical height between Asian
male and Asian female characters and nonAsian characters on these shows

aren't as distinct as those on majority white cast shows. Overall
Asians are potrayed more fairly on these shows but the majority of
parts continue to be stereotypical.
Asians for the most part aren't depicted positively on either
majority white or black cast shows. I think the current trend of
tribalism in the media has allowed nonAsians to depict Asian Americans
negatively and devisively without any recourse to their actions.
Tribalism in the media may increase the amount of white and black shows

in the media but it really hasn't done much and in many cases have
sanctioned the deteriation of positive Asian portrayals in the media.