As Asians, both Marriyum and I have become more ‘woke’ about the irrational sense of inferiority we feel as compared to other races, more prominently the white race. We grew up exposed to lots of Western media and placing the Western lifestyle onto an unhealthy pedestal; not only that, we realised that we weren’t alone in our thinking! We explore some of the world occurrences that may have led to this complex, our personal experiences dealing with our insecurities, how lack of diversity and inclusion in the Western media has affected us and why Hollywood is complicit.
For references to our our research, check out the below:
Links:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/03/media/netflix-asia-expansion-intl-hnk/index.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2016/11/30/white-supremacys-inferiority-complex
https://www.britannica.com/summary/Western-colonialism
https://www.ablison.com/pros-and-cons-of-colonialism/
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/how-globalization-4-0-fits-into-the-history-of-globalization/
https://ivypanda.com/essays/the-american-dream-3/
https://www.ft.com/content/ca2e8368-48e6-11ea-aeb3-955839e06441