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The buzz is that the age of Asian celebrities is due in less than one generation.
Every wave of immigrants has followed a pattern: the first generation is stuck with the shitty jobs; in the second, they enter the professional workforce; in the third, they break into mainstream media. We've been through our laundromat stage, then our doctors 'n' engineers stage - soon we should see an emergence of Asian-American celebrities.
Or so says an Asian sociologist here at Brown. I don't know if I'm that optimistic about it. Be nice, though. In the past year of American theater there was the mildly successful Better Luck Tomorrow, which, amazingly, has nothing at all to do with mystical dragon fu. And boystars like Rick Yoon are making their way out of the woodwork. You could maybe interpret them as the first heralds of the new age.
What I'd really like to see is a megapopular Asian pop star here, like what Jay Chou is to China and Taiwan.
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