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Not the nanny: unconscious bias and that viral BBC video

Not the nanny: unconscious bias and that viral BBC video

Not the nanny: unconscious bias and that viral BBC video Not the nanny: unconscious bias and that viral BBC video, 7.49 MB
Monday, March 13, 2017

International Relations professor Robert Kelly's BBC interview about South Korea was interrupted when his two small children showed up. His wife rushed in and ushered the children out of the room. However, many people and some media outlets assumed that Professor Kelly's wife, Jung-a Kim, was the nanny. The assumption has sparked a wider discussion about interracial couples and media representation of Asian women. bFM reporter Amanda Jane Robinson spoke to author MiMi Aye, who tweeted about some of these assumptions and is part of an interracial family.