Articles on Asians

>How television still suffers from stereotyping
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/how-television-still-suffers-from-stereotyping-509417.html

>Oldfangled racism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/06/comment-thatcher-golliwog-bbc-racism

>Celebrity Big Brother 'rested' after racism row
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/aug/25/television.channel4

>Slumdog Millionaire wins big at Baftas
http://www.asiansinmedia.org/2009/02/09/slumdog-millionaire-wins-big-at-baftas/

>10 Oscar nominations for Slumdog Millionaire
http://www.asiansinmedia.org/2009/01/23/10-oscar-nominations-for-slumdog-millionaire/


The article that I found most interesting was 'How television still suffers from stereotyping'. This is as the article talks about how British asians are breaking out of their stereotype jobs such as accountants, doctors or shopkeepers, and are making a name of themselves in television comedy.

"People think, 'If we cast an Asian person, we have to do the whole race thing.' But I would ask why you have to do that. If it's not written in the script, then why?"

"There is an attitude with people running big mainstream channels. They [think] that if they cast a brown person in a lead role, the country - who they assume only read the Daily Mail - won't watch it,"

"I was really furious that they would not put the cast of Goodness Gracious Me on the front cover of Radio Times. The bottom line was that they did not want to put brown people on the front cover because they thought their audience was a bit racist,"