Aoki and Vietnam Idol

This reflects the American Idol in the sense it tries to focus on a storyline of rags-to-richest, which America enjoy bragging about.  There are so many stories like this that it is pretty rare for them to happen.  This masks the diversity within its country. The producer of Vietnam Idol is not taking into consideration the audience we have.  Since the U.S. have a bigger market, they are able to please a certain crowd and still pull in viewers.  However, The Vietnam Idol are targeting certain audience and leaving out the rest of the countries, whom don’t get a chance to participate.  Globalizations really plays big role here because Vietnam is massively influenced by the American culture and economy.  Since Vietnam is a totally different country in terms of government, geography and culture language, transitioning into a cultural capitalistic country wouldn’t guaranteed its economic success.  Vietnam is slowly industrializing its economy to become more technological innovative like the United States.  They are focusing on catching up with the Unite States economy because they see that we are successful so they want to be successful too.  This is literally looking as “success” from the point of view of American.  For instance, the producer of the show kept the original and content of the show in order to try to make it successful in Vietnam.  This is the notion that western ways of doing things is the right way of doing things, hence they transformed the Vietnam Idol into a superficial storytelling moments of rags-to-richest, which is something that United States plays on a lot.  Vietnam, like America, wants to give a perception that individuals are capable of defining their own life, which erase every discrimination that occurs daily.  It also erases the rural life that still exists in Vietnam and having the rural areas be in disadvantage in participating with Vietnam Idol. 

                  In the film about Richard Aoki, he mentioned that he was part of the Japanese camp during WWII.  He tells his story of how people were highly upset that they were placed in the dessert.  One of the quotes he said was if you don’t have power, you don’t have anything and signifies the racial inequality in the United States.  As much as we think this country provide an equal playing field, there is a huge disadvantage for PoC and non-whites to climb up the social ladder.  In this case, it is very challenging for Asian American to hold power because they are not given much power in the US as power are given to whites.  When he mentioned that no one stood up for Japanese American during their internment camp, it shows that there have not been any injustices for Asian American.  When it come to these form of discrimination, there has not been much coverage over these issues because there is this perception that Asian American don’t face racism or discrimination.