Stereotypes In American Born Chinese

In the graphic novel, American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang describes the life of an Asian American and how the petty stereotypes affect them.The main character’s cousin, Chin-kee, is supposed to show the readers what Asian stereotypes are and how people present it to others. In the graphic novel, Chin-kee always said stuff that was offensive to other Asians or Asian Americans, like “cat and noodle soup”. Chin-kee symbolizes Asian stereotypes in America.

After the story of the Monkey God, Chin-kee was introduced as the Stereotypical Chinese man in America. When Chin-kee was introduced in the graphic novel he was saying English words in an "Asian' accent. He also makes remarks that remind people of "Asian" culture. For example, Chin-kee said things like "Must bind feet and bear children" to others. From my perspective, Chin-kee definitely, says things that biased Americans think of Asian Americans and he embarrasses Danny.

The humiliation was from the way Chin-kee acted as the stereotypical Chinese person. The reasons why Danny transformed into a typical American was because of the stereotypes and Yang made that very clear to the readers. Some readers probably laughed at the stereotypical thing Chin-kee spat, but Yang wanted this to be serious and charge the problem at hand with an obvious symbol. Danny and Chin-kee fought and Chin-kee was truly the Monkey King, the Monkey King had a problem with alter ego and Chin-kee had the habit to say things that offend and "describes" Asian