Jesse Watters Argumentative Analysis

On October 3rd, 2016, Fox News released a controversial video onto the internet of Jesse Watters, a correspondent for the “The O'Reilly Factor", going to the streets of Chinatown to investigate voters about their opinions regarding the upcoming election but he did no such thing. Dubbed to be a “political humorist”, Watters attempts to be funny but falls flat. No one was laughing along with the discrimination. Watters stereotyped Asian culture and language instead. The aftermath of the controversial broadcast led to many to demand an apology from Watters and even as far as his resignation from television. Watters’s Chinatown segment, a part of his on-the-street interviews from his show, “Watters’s World”, includes unrelated questioning about respectful bowing, playing with nunchucks, suspecting street vendors of stealing

All stereotypes are negative. For example, saying that “all Asians are smart” hurts both those who are conventionally intelligent by attributing their hard work to a racial component and those who are not by putting a lot of stress upon them to live up to this expectation. This false belief neglects to give credit to the labor of many Asian Americans who have worked hard to get to what they want. Another standard cliché about Asians having bad English also has its effects. In Watters’s video, two of the subjects he approached never respond to his questions because they might not have understood or spoke the English language. The subjects probably never had a chance to properly learn the language or they did not need to. They settled in Chinatown, a place that had access to all they needed to survive without needing to speak any bit of English. Stereotypes typecast a whole variety of people who do not and should not need to