The media...

Recently we've been talking about media in the lecture, and there is a certain part of it that I want to discuss.
I cannot recall her name, but Angela introduced female Korean comedian who stated that the problem with Asian jokes is that there is no character; what people consider funny about Asian is not certain characteristics or habits, what's considered funny is Asian itself.
Well, I could not agree more on her comment. I could learn that all the other ethnicity jokes in the United States change in time as the society progresses, but not Asian jokes in particular. The jokes are so plain and characterless.
Asian jokes are, and they will always be the same. Asian jokes have been unchanging when all the other racial jokes, Scottish for example, have been evolving from jokes about kilt to Sean Connery, and then to something else.
Also, unlike other racial jokes, Asian jokes are not even subcategorized, when "White" jokes would be divided by nation, social class, and gender. An irony is that more number of nations are categorized as being part of Asia, compared to nations and ethnicities in Europe and North America. People in the United States do not know much about Asia except for Japan and China and the media extends such ignorance.
I spent a year as a senior in the U.S. preparatory. Despite being in Michigan, where not so many Korean immigrants inhabit, there were many Korean students. Some of them lived in dormitories and some others attended from their homes nearby.
Anyways, maybe because we were mostly immature, it was common for the most students to pick on someone else because of their race or ethnicity, and my ethnicity was no exception, and from all those names that I had called upon, I could realize how ignorant they were about Asia. It was either they could not tell difference between Japan and China, or they just did not care enough.
No matter what the truth was, it was not so much of pleasant experience. I was ok with racial jokes and never were offended in anyway because such jokes were popular and it was some twisted way of students getting to know more about each other. However, it was disappointing to realize how well average Michigan teenagers were informed or educated about Asia and various nations and cultures within.
I personally approve and agree with racial jokes. I believe they deliver feelings of intimacy or interest from one race towards another, only if used in right circumstances.
With the issue of what racial joke is allowable and what is not, I only have my own boundaries, and I do not know what would be the borderline of racial jokes should be. However, with the issue of Asian jokes, it is not even necessary yet for anyone to think of what is ok and what is not ok when joking about Asian race because most people are not educated enough to think about such, and the media prolongs such tendencies of people in the United States.