http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2vqKUX/funny.jdonuts.com/2011/03/asian-aging.html

I know this might be a little late, but I found this picture the other day and I remembered that we were talking about this exact thing when we were watching Margaret Cho.  Since she was still young, Margaret was expected to be the typical skinny Asian woman.  She was going to be on T.V. and this was already a controversial issue because this would be the first all American Asian family that would be on television, but if she didn't fit the stereotypical Asian female then this would bring even more controversy, or so the network thought.  However, I find that allowing Cho to be herself, no matter how much she weighed, would be the best choice for the network.  This way she can prove to all the other Asian Americans her show reached that they do not need to fit what people think they should look like and it is good to prove that.  This cartoon that I found focused more on the grandmother that we were speaking about. It shows that it is okay for the older Asian Americans to be larger in weight because they are older and have more respect because they are wiser.  I just find this view to be skewed.   Nobody should be told what they should look like by a network, by the portrayal of their own ethnicity or by anyone else.