Jackie Chan Adventures is an animated television series on Kids' WB, Cartoon Network as well as Disney XD. It is Based on the film star, Jackie Chan, and related to many of his actual works. These series portrays stereotype amongst their ethnic background of China. It also interprets stereotype amongst age. It shows prejudice amongst other ethnicsities showing certain images as to be part of the China.
Jackie Chan Adventures is about a young amateur archeologist who lives with his uncle and neice.Jackie Chan finds magical artifacts that some how tie him into with working with secret agents also known as the Section 13. In these shows, he faces conflicts with ninjas as well as other bad guys. In the times Jackie spends with his uncle, he is often lectured with old ancient teachings his uncle begins to tell him. When facing conflicts with the 'bad guys', Jackie Chan is only capable of overcoming these struggles by using his martial art skills. The reason for the 'bad guys' attacking on Jackie Chan, is for the shield he has found. The immortal spirit, Shendu, is trying to get the artifact that Jackie has found.
To elaborate on how it is stereotypical amongst ethincity, it shows dragons, ninjas and that they conjure mystical and supernatural teachings where as other shows do not show. The grandpa in the series bases all of his teachings off of ancient stories that Chinese strongly believe in. In the theme song of the show, it has dragons flying around as well as cutural flute music off of the Chinese heritage. This is stereotypical because it also shows immortal figures where as other cartoons such as Rugrats, Tom and Jerry, Popeye as well as many others, do not show. As a Chinese character he is shown to know marital arts rather that kickboxing or other self defense moves. His niece is shown to be always getting is trouble which is stereotypical about young children stating that that kids are always falling into difficult situations. Jackie Chan is a perfect example of sterotype based on ethnicity showing certain habits based on certain cutural backgrounds.
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Richa, this is a show I used to watch all the time when I was younger and I very much agree with you. This show has many sterotypes on the asian culture and I think it is wrong for them to assume all these things just because it is based off of the Chinese culture. I think the whole thing with the dragons, ninjas, and mystical teachings are just judgements on what they see when it come to the asian culture. I think this show definitely qualifies on being sterotypical towards race and ethnic backgrounds.
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