Times' 'Style' Section Says Asians Struggle To Attain Pop Stardom; South Asians, Norah Jones May Beg To Differ
It’s tough being an aspiring Asian-American pop star. Or so says the Times‘ “Style” section:
There are Asian-American stars in sports, movies, television and classical music. But the “Asian thing” is what Mr. Lee and many other aspiring Asian-American singers say largely accounts for the lack of Asian-American pop stars. People in the music industry, including some executives, have no ready explanation, but Asian-American artists and scholars argue that the racial stereotypes that hobble them as a group — the image of the studious geek, the perception that someone who looks Asian must be a foreigner — clash with the coolness and born-in-the-U.S.A.
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