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.

When was the last time you saw major stories about three Asian American “celebrities” in any other field in the span of less than one week?

And aren’t we always saying how we want the media to treat Asian Americans as just “Americans” and not always in the context of being Asian? Look at the mainstream media coverage of folks like Gosselin and Heene, very rarely does their race or ethnicity come into play. Gosselin is a douchebag, NOT an Asian American or, more precisely, hapa douchebag. Heene is an awful mother and human being, NOT an awful Asian American mother and human being. I feel like it’s only in the Asian American media where their race/ethnicity is always front and center. American pop culture has accepted them as one of its own so isn’t that a good thing?

Even if what I’m saying makes sense, some of you are probably thinking, “But do I really want these sort of fame whores representing my community?”

Look, there’s plenty of “positive” Asian American reality stars, too. Here are just three of them:

Survivor winner Yul Kwon who used his fame to bring attention to Asian American issues.

The JabbaWockeeZ who won the first season of America’s Best Dance Crew and proved Asians could get down with the best of them.

And former skater Kristi Yamaguchi who kicked ass with her elegance and style on Dancing With The Stars.

But here’s my big question—can we really say we’ve made it anyway if all we have are “positive” role models? Isn’t that diversity of voices—both the good and bad and everything in-between—what we really want? And what other medium has had such a diversity of Asian American voices—brothas and sistas who could sing, dance, tell jokes, get fired by Donald Trump, model, travel the world facing extreme challenges, eat bugs, lose 100 pounds, be locked in a house with good-locking but vacant white people and so on? What other medium has willingly embraced both the William Hungs and Yul Kwons of our community? Quite simply–what other medium reflects the diversity of Asians in American better than reality TV? My answer—nothing.

With that said, I still think we’re not completely there yet. So when will we know we’ve truly conquered the world of reality TV? When we have the Asian American equivalents of these two:

Once we have a hot Asian American chick with no discernable talent who is ultra-famous for doing nothing, then we’ll know we’re truly an integral part of the fabric of America (and no, someone like Tequila isn’t on that level).

So to help this process along, for the good of Asian America, I am offering my services. If there are any smokin’ hot Asian American chicks reading this who are also rich (let’s be honest, becoming famous for doing nothing requires a bountiful cash reserve), contact me. You also have to be living in L.A. or willing to re-locate here since this is the fame capital of the world. But I promise to work tirelessly to turn you into the Asian American Paris Hilton. I have the contacts and resources to do so and I’ll only take 10 15 20 percent. So shoot me an email with your photos and resume. We’ll do lunch.