@SD: well, thanks for explaining, and you’re right, I should have checked your website out first before jumping to conclusions. so with that, I apologize. But if you are going to pursue your goals with your projects, don’t take every criticism as negative–these are just people’s opinions that are sometimes worth listening to, because after all, these people are your audience.

I am still not really convinced with your logic of “but over 2 million people have been exposed to that video. therefore this stereotype does exist.”
2 million hits perhaps…doesn’t really mean 2 million UNIQUE individuals saw it. And just because these people saw the video, it still doesn’t tell you if people agreed or disagreed with the stereotype or not.

And another thought: people who watched the video were probably merely wondering “Why Asian Girls Go For White Guys” not searching for “Why Asian guys are shy”. I think this issue has been addressed effectively by “Yellow Fever” over at WongFu–it’s a completely different topic altogether and I’m not going to get into it, b/c surely you’ve seen the video.

if you visit our original youtube page where the video is displayed you can read all the description of why we made that video. but i bet you never visited the original page or our website. i am proud to be an engineer, in fact my 2nd rap song is called “I’m an Engineer”

the 2nd video is just a teaser, i like how some people judge so quickly. the purpose of that video is to show that I am an Asian living in the western society. and people often call me banana because they think i am yellow on the outside and white on the inside.

i think that is a big mistake because one should not judge a person by the colour of his skin and place anyone in any generalization. therefore i am bringing the claim that i am a banana into physical reality in an attempt to show the world how silly it is to call someone a banana.

as well, i see there are a lot of negativity in the world, and i am just trying to do something to change the world. some might agree and some might disagree with my methods.

if you dont like my way of things, i encourage you to do something about it. because your negative comments are not productive, instead you can try something in your own ways to bring about change

And is there something wrong with being an Engineer? By all means, it’s not completely associated with an “Asian stereotype”, and even if it is, it’s a positive stereotype. But whoops, it’s just the poster’s prejudices coming out of its shell yet again.

And please, ONE girl in a youtube video saying “Asian GUYS are shy” does NOT EQUATE to EVERYONE’S opinion of Asians, or Asian guys in general.

The title of this video is called

“Why Asian Girls Go For White Guys”

one of the Asian girls says “Asian guys are shy”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI3lPLsbwjw

The goal of Sexy Dragon is to start a group, a following, that is willing to challenge the social norm and break stereotypes. “

if you didn’t notice, “stereotype” is pluralized, as in “stereotypes”. Sure, he may not want to break all Asian stereotypes or any other cultural stereotypes, it doesn’t really matter. What matters is, according to him, shyness is apparently a label for Asians–and that’s where I disagree. I don’t feel shyness is one at all. And I certain I’m not the only one who feels that way–there are a lot of assertive and confident Asians out there.

Being shy isn’t a cultural issue, it’s a personal issue.

All I was suggesting is, if his goal is to “break [general] stereotypes”, then he should reach out to “non-stereotypical” Asians/other cultural groups so he can gain a bit more insight on the matter

“to break the stereotype that Asians are shy”

NOT to break all the other Asian stereotypes that you mentioned