Study Guide Questions #2: Joshua Kovacs

1. Give examples to illustrate Asian influences in American culture.

• Asian tattoos, movies like "Crouching Tiger" being the highest grossing foreign film, Chinese food being on every block, cartoon like Pokemon, and yoga becoming mainstream. 

2. What is "Orientalism" as suggested by Edward Said?

• "Exotic, mysterious, racist labels historically applied to the East by the West"
• West: Big Industry, masculinity, and big money.
• East: Femininity, weakness, delicate, and poor.