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Re: Harry Potter and the Asian American Image in Media (Score: 1)
by anon125 on Monday, August 08 @ 00:43:36 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | **About the name, I am not saying if this is accurate, but I am offering a different point of view. |
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Re: Harry Potter and the Asian American Image in Media (Score: 1)
by Nagai on Monday, August 08 @ 15:00:35 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | So we've established that the Cho Chang character is considered to have an above average intelligence (the only proof of which is her assigned house), and is considered attractive by the other characters - none of which other than her are Asian - to the point where she has many boyfriends. I'd be careful to assign a specific dialect to her name as I do not recall her character to ever be of Chinese descent, much less whatever specific region her parents had come from or what dialect they spoke (or speak at all - perhaps she is 5th or 6th generation east Asian). This seems to point to a possibly new stereotype of intelligent, worldly Asian women that prefer to date anyone other than another Asian man. However, I digress as Cho Chang's character is possibly the only person of east-Asian descent in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. By the way, doesn't Lucy Liu have freckles?
I agree on your idea that the author would not make her a "loser" as she is a love interest of the hero, but that does not preclude the idea that she would create her as fundamentally flawed in some way - a little vinegar in the milk. Harry spends a lot of time being interrupted or having little chance to communicate with her until their (again) first and last date on Valentine's Day. Again, I state that she is essentially an emotional basket case throughout the book - prone to crying fits, which Harry endures uncomfortably. Granted this may be forgiven as her former boyfriend of African descent was killed by Voldemort in the end of the Goblet of Fire novel. Finally, as I pointed out before, Cho is responsible for the destruction of the DADA club - "Dumbledore's Army" by insisting on bringing her traitorous friend along - who she is shown comforting in disgrace when the novel ends as they leave Hogwarts on the Express Train. However, as she is already seperated from Harry and (already with another guy, no less) the audience is less inclined to feel sorry for her - after all she was the chink in Harry's armor (no pun intended). |
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