I was struck by a realization this week. It had nothing to do with learning the true meaning of Christmas or any crap like that, but about the age-old question that our community has asked over and over again—when are we going to have our own Asian American stars; i.e. our own Will Smiths, Angelina Jolies, Jerry Seinfelds and Tina Feys? And what I realized is, there’s one medium where we already have plenty of stars and that’s reality TV.
In just this past week alone, it seems like there’s been a “news” story almost every day about an Asian American reality star (or in one case, a wannabe reality star): Tila Tequila announced she was going to have her brother’s child (as a surrogate mom so get your mind out of the gutter), balloon boy’s parents (including mom Mayumi Heene) were sentenced to jail time and Jon Gosselin returned to his home earlier tonight to find out he had been robbed.
