All-American Girl

     

       All-American Girl is a 1994 ABC situation comedy. It is the second American sitcom centered on a person of Asian descent (Korean), namely Cho. The main actress is called Margaret who was twenty-three-year-old, a modern American young woman who lived with her more traditional Korean family. She had a contentious relationship with her mother about some of her personal life events. For example, choosing her own dates. This episode I have watched was about a traditional parent who tried very hard to disrupt her daughter's right to choose who she dates with. Margaret's mother, a Korean lady who only wants her precious daughter goes out with a well-educated Korean guy she sets up. This was the rule of the society during those old days that you are only allowed to marry your own ethnicity. In this comedy, there are several stereotypes that shows a traditional Asian family. Margaret's grandmother represents the senior generation, who lost her partner and lives with younger generations in a same house. She doesn't work and loves verbally disrupt younger generations' daily issues while listening to them. And she loves sitting on the couch and watching TV all day long. A pair of fun character is Margaret's mother and father. Mother always plays the role with "white face", meanwhile, father plays with "red face". This is what we say in Chinese that 一个唱白脸，一个唱红脸。Usually the one who has"red face" has a quite mild personality and showing a lot of compromise, on the contrary, the "white face" mostly has a hot temper and, sometimes a desire for control. The last character who represents a common stereotype of Asian is Margaret's elder brother in this show. He has his greasy hair divided from the middle and speaks in a almost-kill-me tempo. Usually this type of kid will be adored more at home because he listens to whatever his parents say and do whatever what his parents like. Margaret's brother is pretty much a mommy-boy at this point. I was told that this TV series had been called off after only two seasons. I assume that it probably didn't set up a meaningful educational model for audiences. However, it's still laughable.