Karate En America

Choose a modern (post 2000) piece of popular culture (a movie, TV show, song or toy) that depicts some aspect of the martial arts to critically examine. In an essay, consider the following threequestions. Does this piece of popular culture accurately depict a specific style of martial art and its history? In what ways does this piece of popular culture reinforce or challenge popular stereotypesof Asians and martial arts in general? In what ways does this piece of popular culture reinforce or challenge gender stereotypes? In your conclusion, consider what does this piece of popular culturereveal about the changing role and meaning of martial arts in America today?


The American culture is highly based on stereotypes for races, ethnicity's, gender, and religions and even formartial arts. For example there is now stereotypes on movies, TV shows, songs and even on toys. I could easily think of at least ten movies at where they have portrayed some sort of stereotype. However whenit comes to some cultural or historical martial arts is even worse because they show something completely different to what martial arts really are. In this essay I will be analyzing the movie“Street Fighter” (2009) and how they portray some stereotypes, challenge others and misinform about the real roots of their origin.

As I was growing, I would always play this one game called streetfighter I was little so I wouldn’t really pay attention to it. It was few years ago that the movie street fighter came out and I paid attention on the theme and on what they really portrayed. In a way theydid show the history of martial arts but in their way it doesn’t really means precisely that this was true, however most people not just Americans believe that is the real deal. They believe that isthe roots of martial arts including my self at that point. This particular movie shows only one kind of martial arts, which is Karate. However there were other fighters with other types of...