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Fighting Stereotypes of Asian Americans in the Media According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention website in 2013 Asians made up for 4.8 percent of Americas population with 14.7 million individuals. That population is expected to increase to 40.6 million, or 9.2 percent of American population by the year 2050 and consist of over 30 different ethnicities. Teresa Mok of Purdue University stated in 1998 that â€Å"Despite their increasing numbers and heterogeneity, little reflection of the diversity within Asian America is seen in mass media images† (p. 186). In addition to a lack of ethnic diversity often times Asian Americans are left out of film and television altogether. Media Action Network for Asian Americans (2015) recently criticized Sony pictures for their â€Å"white-washed† movie Aloha. Even though the film is set in Hawaii the majority of the cast is white with very little representation of Asian Americans or Pacific Islanders. 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