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Kim chi drag queen american name9/6/2023 ![]() She was one of the top three finalists on season 8. This clip shows overall her performances on RuPaul’s Drag Race season 8. She became the first Korean drag queen to be featured on American national television. She (/He) was born in the United States, moved to South Korea and lived there as a child and now lives in Chicago. Kim Chi is a Korean American drag queen from RuPaul’s drag race season 8. In this chapter, mainly I’d like to analysis Asian American drag queens’ performance in RuPaul’s drag race. It represents the diversity of gender and sexuality, which is related to the last definition by Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu. And now, it can be one of the educational tools of queer studies and gender studies. ![]() However, now it’s widely known not only by the LGBTQ community but also by outside of the LGBTQ community, whichever they favor it or not. RuPaul’s drag race is rooted in queer culture. Originally, drag show and drag queen are from the LGBTQ community, queer culture. RuPaul’s drag race could be said to be widely favored or well-liked by many people, like the first definition.Īlso, RuPaul’s drag race could be placed in the fourth definition and fifth definition. RuPaul’s Drag race received 12 major nominations and winning 6 awards in Emmy Awards. ![]() So, how do we categorize RuPaul’s drag race as a pop culture? The fourth definition is that “popular culture is the culture which originates from ‘the people’.” (p.7) The fifth definition is that “popular culture as a site of struggle between the ‘resistance’ of subordinate groups and the forces of ‘incorporation’ operating in the interests of dominant groups” (p.8) The sixth definition is that in postmodernism, popular culture is “a culture which no longer recognizes the distinction between high and popular culture” (p.9)Īlso, according to Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, “It is through culture, and particularly popular culture, that persons are taught how to be kinds of citizens- how to dress, listen, shop, love, desire, and behave.” It could be also a definition of popular culture because the culture that has effects on us, our lives is popular culture. Its audience is a mass of non-discriminating consumers.” (p.6) It is mass culture. It is mass produced for mass consumption. The first definition is that “popular culture is simply culture which is widely favored or well-liked by many people.” (p.4) The second definition is that “popular culture is a residual category, there to accommodate texts and practices which fail to meet the required standards to qualify as high culture.” (p.5) The third definition is that “popular culture is a hopelessly commercial culture. However, how do we categorize that tv-show as pop culture? What is pop culture?Īccording to John Storey, there are 6 definitions of pop culture in their different, general ways. Then, I’d like to explore the struggles of both being Asian and being gay, especially with focusing on family background and the stereotype of Asian, Gay, and Gay Asian.Īs I mentioned in the introduction, RuPaul’s Drag race has been seen as one of pop culture in the United States. It might be related to the cultural and generational difference of understanding LGBTQ culture. Also, Plastique Tiara from season 11, whose ethnicity is Vietnamese, hasn’t explained to her parents what she’s actually doing as a performer. But, her mother doesn’t know that she’s a drag queen. ![]() She came out to her mother that she was gay. Like this, I’d like to explore how Asian Americans drag queens represented their Asian culture into the performance in a good way, sometimes in a bad way too, as their identity.Īlso, as one of the children of Asian-immigrants, she has been struggling with the relationship of her parent. It was one of her strengths in this competition. She takes her cultural cues that are currently popular in Korea and represent it into the gay community. She is the first Korean drag queen to be featured on American national television. ![]() In this show, Kim Chi, whose ethnicity is Korean, is one of the famous Asian drag queens and is runner-up in season 8. I wondered why less number of Asian American queens were in this show. However, up to the present time, totally 13 Asian American drag queens are in that TV-show, out of about 140 queens. In 2018, it received 12 major nominations and winning 6 awards in Emmy Awards. The TV-show RuPaul’s Drag Race has become a pop culture in the United States. ![]()
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