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Feb 24, 05:59 PM | Author: jane kim | Category: personal
Chinatown CDC Youth speak out on MTV and Asian America
Friday, February 24, 2006 (SF Chronicle)
Forget the white-bread ‘80s MTV. Now MTV Chi and other outlets cater to Asian Americans.
by Jeff Chang, Special to The Chronicle
On a recent afternoon in the darkened basement conference room of the Chinatown Community Development Center, 10 San Francisco teens are gathered around a noisy little box to watch MTV’s newest incarnation, MTV Chi, a channel designed strictly for them, young Chinese Americans.
Queena Chen, a 16-year-old from Burton High School, hates “24,” loves “Malcolm in the Middle” and can tell you what happened on each of the “CSI” episodes last week. Jake Nguyen, a 17-year-old student at Washington High, keeps three Xanga blogs and a Myspace account, and watches TV online. The group’s musical tastes are intriguingly eclectic—hip-hop, R&B, alternative, K-Pop (Korean pop), J-Pop (Japanese pop), Vietnamese pop. They know where to tune in to the hottest Cantopop on local radio (and won’t hesitate to call you “vintage” for calling it Cantopop) and, like generations of Asian Americans before them, they know the names of every token Asian actor or actress on network TV.
Read the full article HERE
Above photos of CCDC Youth Leaders: Calvin Yan, Lowell 2006, Jason Lau, Washington 2006, Susana Leong, Galileo 2007
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