Stereotyping in Society

Having finished my reading homework, I was browsing one of those time-wasting websites before going to bed and I stumbled upon this beauty.  If you can't read it, the first picture tells the students to take their calculators out.  In response, Peter pulls out his handy dandy Asian kid and says in the last picture "C'mon, do math."  I don't watch Family Guy, but being half-Chinese, I laughed at it because I find America's perception of Chinese Americans funny.  However, taking this class has made me much more aware of racism and stereotyping in advertisements, music, movies, etc and this is clearly an example of both essentialism, trying to reduce an ethnic group into a single characteristic, and model minority myth, because all Chinese kids are brilliant at math, right?

I think the tenet of CRT that best describes this picture is #1, that says Racism is Ordinary.  I think of it as a natural state for people, me included, to simplify things into something that's easy to conceptualize, or that there are enough cases of similarity in a group that a "claim" can be made for the entirety of the group.  There are probably many illiterate and uneducated Asians in the world, but in the US they are racialized as smart lawyers/doctors/mathematicians.  This over-classicification was what sparked women's suffrage back in the early 1900's.  Women did not want to be stereotyped as just mothers and kitchen-dwellers, but there was enough of a percentage women who did work in the kitchen and raise children to create that stereotype.