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| Name | Lego Ninjago: Is It Asian Representation? |
| Video Uploader | Video From ParachutingKitten |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 21-04-2023 14:00:18 |
| Video Discription | A project for the Asian American Media class I took this past semester. I love this show a lot, but its relationship to its Asian coding is definitely strange, and I feel it's worth discussing in some right, even if I personally have zero answers. A lot of people seem to feel the need to point out that ninjago has elements of many cultures mixed into its setting, which is obviously true, but I feel isn't really addressing the point of the video. Yes, ninjago pulls from a lot of different cultures, but that doesn't mean that the Asian coding that is central to the theme suddenly isn't worth discussing, or that the elements they're using from ALL of these cultures are by default used in a respectful and appropriate way. Yes, the coding in the show is more complicated than "It's just Asian", but that means the show's relationship to representation is going to be more complicated, and that's what I'm trying to get at here. It's the fact that ninjago sits in this gray area you're pointing out that I feel the need to talk about it. There is still room to disrespect cultures when mixing multiple together- in fact it's probably more likely to happen, because haphazardly shoving pieces of different cultures together is prime material for walking into misrepresentation. Even if it's all fictional, it's pulling from real life cultures, with real history, and real baggage, and real people who identify with it, so it's important to be respectful. |
| Category | Film & Animation |
| Tags | ninjago | lego ninjago | masters of spinjitzu | asian | asian american | representation | come have a quick mental breakdown with me | racism |
