Portrayl of Asian American in Film

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Such false acting implanted a false image of Chinese people which the native born Americans expected to see in actual Chinese people. Though in the earlier times, it was more understandable to use yellowface in films because of the lack of Asian actors and actresses...
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However, even after 200 years, this performance was still present. In the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's starring the famous Audrey Hepburn, Mickey Rooney, non-Asian actor, played the role of a crazy Japanese man (Ito 8). Ito presents three explanations for the use of yellowface after the period of Asian immigrations which should have increased the number of Asian actors and actresses: one, because the audience preferred to be able to relate to the actors and actresses, therefore, they expected to see White actors, not Oriental, even if the characters were supposed to be Asians; two, because they lacked ?qualified' Asians or Asian American actors; and three, White actors were able to depict ?Orientals' better than Asian actors (4)...
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