Daniel Dae Kim one of the 5 Most Fascinating Asian Males on TV
4. Jin Kwon on Lost
Played by: Daniel Dae Kim
You can watch it: on Wednesdays on ABC, though they’re on hiatus now
Part of what makes watching Lost so great is seeing how the characters of Sun and Jin have developed. There was this great scene in a Season 1 flashback where they were at the airport, and Sun accidentally spilled something on Jin, and hastily wiped it up for him. And this white woman, thinking they couldn’t understand English, made a disparaging remark to her companion, something along the lines of, thank god she didn’t live in an oppressed society where she had to be all submissive like that.
I thought it was a sharp piece of commentary on how many non-Asians look at Asians as walking, talking stereotypes: domineering, chauvinistic husband and cowering, submissive wife. And for a long time, the Lost crew saw Jin and Sun in those terms too. But over time, the Losties and we, the audience, got to know these characters intimately and learned about their complexities and contradictions.
Source: Racialicious
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Carmen Van Kerckhove
Jan 3, 2007 at 10:10 am
Thanks so much for the link to Racialicious! I hope you and your readers will stop by often - we’re all about exploring the intersection of race and pop culture. And there’s plenty of that on Lost. :)
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