Don't Cry, Asian Kid

I just discovered the funniest Yellow Fever/Asian guy fetish music video to date by a Asian American rapper by the name of Traphik titled, "First Asian Boy" which is a playful take on of the ever popular Kanye song.

Seriously, check this photo>>>>>>>>
[not that this photo is offensive, aside from the atrocious tattoo, this Asian (maybe Hapa?) guy's hot and so is the girl, but really--I know a fetish when I see one]

Ever since I watched the Wong Fu Productions classic Yellow Fever the whole Asian guy/white girl dynamic has always fascinated me. The typical premise revolves around an Asian American "nice guy" who notices something wrong--that his Asian girl counterparts can get white guys, but he fails to get white girls.

The Asian girl fetish has been present in the media for God knows how long thanks to stereotyping of the geisha in all their powdered face passivity, exotic erotica, and sexual intrigue. I know the fetish and faced it in small glimpses. Yet it's for this very reason why I (regretfully and unintentionally) feel a little hesitant when I notice a non-Asian guy checking me out...which rarely happens, but at this point, I'll take what I can get. I degraded into eye candy. Another exotic, caramel-skinned fetish that will satisfy someones superficial fantasies of the Oriental East...or the guy might mistake me for a Hawaiian (which won't suprise me), so then the islands and my hula and/or Tahitian dancing hips of fire and magic.

For this reason I feel a tiny bit unnerved when my Asian guy counterparts complain about my "innate" ability to attract non-Asians of the opposite sex, while they're relegated to the asexual martial arts master dressed in a yellow jumpsuit. With the popularity of Harold and Kumar making John Cho and Kal Penn into Hollywood hotties, I'm noticing more and more that the Asian Boy is becoming a fetish--the nice, dependable guy in glasses who majored in Engineering and has a stable job. The man can take care of ya, girl! He may appear like a total nerd, but underneath his ironed dress shirt lies a wonderfully lean yet muscular yellow (or caramel brown) piece of flesh. The ethnic fetishism of men isn't new. Us chicks have our dreams of Latin Lovers, Frenchies, Italians, NBA players... the Asian nice guy is just another addition.

This is not to say that I don't find shorts like Yellow Fever and movies like Harold & Kumar un-entertaining or offensive. These are great pieces of pop culture and Asian American media that never fail to make me laugh at the parody and notice the twinge of truth that spurred my laughter. This post is just to let my Asian and even AzN brothers know that yes, us Asian girls somehow end up with white guys, but take this social phenomena with grain of salt, or how about some MSG? Fatasies and fetishes hide underneath the coupling.

Hell, you'll be getting your white girls soon, but the same salty seasonings apply. Now that's not to say there's nothing wrong with your relationship if your significant other is non-Asian. Love is love. When it comes to the Asian fetish, I'm strictly talking about the media here. Although it never ceases to amuse me when my non-Asian friends comment on how they always seem to go for Asian guys because I don't have a specific ethnicity that I am attracted to. I'm a "whole package" type of girl. If the guy has a great personality, looks decent, and can intellectually (and hopefully physically) stimulate me, then it's all good. I don't think - "yeah he's white, ergo he's hawt". I'm attracted to Asians, white guys, black guys, Latinos, Middle Easterns, and everything in between and mixed. There's a good amount of male eye candy on the UC Davis campus, believe me.

Note to self - Never Google "Asian guy" ever again...especially with the parental restrictions turned off.