The video, “How to be Gangster” is a very popular YouTube video. This video, like numerous others that are posted on this website daily addresses constructions of race and globalized identity. They take a stereotypical Asian, holding book with glasses and teach him how to be gangster by cursing, fighting, rapping, handshakes ect. By doing this, this video not only addresses the globalized identity of being an Asian but an African American “gangster” as well. This reinforces the idea to people watching it that if an Asian tries to act any way different than there orientalism, it should not be taken seriously and is humorous.
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