History Main / AsianAirhead

* Tiffany, a member of the Fashion Club on ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}''. She was by far the least offensive or hostile of the group, but that's more because she has absolutely no motivation or ability to form her own opinions. She's, of course, jaw-dropping gorgeous, and popular amongst her male peers for obvious reasons. She has no actual characterization: she just [[YesMan agrees with whatever her friends tell her to]]. She was also the ''dumbest'' character of the Fashion Club; she, literally, agreed with whoever spoke last, lost her place on a piece of paper three sentences in, and just so you know, that isn't how fast she speaks, that's how fast ''she thinks''.

* On ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'', Josh Chan is a rare male version of this. He is handsome and popular, but he is also not very smart. He doesn't seem to have a mean bone in his body, but his oblivious nature does occasionally cause him to be InnocentlyInsensitive, particularly when it comes to other people's feelings.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' has a rare male variant with Vince Chung.

* While not stupid, ComicBook/{{Jubilee}} of the ComicBook/XMen suffers dyscalculia, averting the "[[AsianAndNerdy Asians as math geniuses]]" stereotype.

Frequently a side effect of AbilityOverAppearance and TypeCasting. In many cases, the character was likely not intended to be Asian; however, they could come across an actress who plays the character perfectly, with the fact that she's Asian merely incidental. Creator/BrendaSong is a good example. On ''Suite Life,'' the character was a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Creator/ParisHilton and was originally supposed to be played by co-star Creator/AshleyTisdale. However, Song was revealed to have a natural knack for playing the airhead, so she and Tisdale swapped roles.

* ''{{Machinima/Anon}}'': Vivian, Candace's best friend. From her awkward flirting with Candace's younger brother to failing to recognise the difference between a dentist and a dental assistant, Vivian can at times be frustratingly dumb.

Frequently a side effect of AbilityOverAppearance and TypeCasting. In many cases, the character was likely not intended to be Asian; however, they could come across an actress who plays the character perfectly, with the fact that she's Asian merely incidental. The aforementioned Brenda Song is a good example. On ''Suite Life,'' the character was an obvious Expy of [[DumbBlonde Paris Hilton,]] and was originally supposed to be played by co-star Ashley Tisdale. However, Song was revealed to have a natural knack for playing the airhead, so she and Tisdale swapped roles.

# Type One: "The Tipton", with the character of London Tipton from ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' being the most prominent example. This is the combination of the AlphaBitch with this stereotype: A pretty, popular, usually rich Asian girl fawned after by boys but presented as being vain and petty at the same time. Often played by Creator/BrendaSong.

* Emily in ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'' is more academically inclined than most examples (she [[AcademicAlphaBitch brags about her 4.0 GPA]] and proves very resourceful when [[spoiler:outrunning the wendigos in the mines]]), but she's very much not AsianAndNerdy; rather, she's the AlphaBitch of the group and without a doubt the game's HateSink, an abrasive, domineering, high-maintenance asshole who may be [[YourCheatingHeart cheating on her boyfriend with her ex]]. Tellingly, while all of the characters can be KilledOffForReal through [[YetAnotherStupidDeath player incompetence]] or [[ButterflyOfDoom story decisions that come back to bite them]], Emily is the only one you can have killed off through direct action on your part (namely, [[spoiler:having Mike give her a MoeGreeneSpecial when she's mistaken for a ZombieInfectee]]).

* Usagi from ''Anime/SailorMoon'' is an IdiotHero who is BookDumb and rather slow on the uptake. However, she ''is'' known for being TheSocialExpert, so she's far from a ''complete'' idiot.

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* Hay Lin from ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' is the archetypal Type Two. A beautiful young Chinese girl, [[{{Moe}} petite and adorable]], sweet natured, kind, popular... and stupid. So very stupid. She spends most of the series getting led around by the pigtails, mostly by her friend Cornelia. Ironically Hay Lin is about as far from AlphaBitch or RichBitch as you can get, but Cornelia ''defines'' both. Funny that she has the power of ''AIR''. She is seen being pretty smart in the comics -- both creative, bookish smart and insightful when it comes to the people around her.

* ''WebComic/VampireCheerleaders'': Suki lies somewhere between being a [[TheDitz a ditz]] and [[CloudCuckoolander a goofball.]] While her antics are played for laughs, her impulsive behavior [[http://www.vampirecheerleaders.net/strips-vc/suki_has_an_idea and lack of forethought]] tends to create problems for her friends. She also has [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny an incredibly short attention span]], which made for poor study habits that caused her to [[http://www.vampirecheerleaders.net/strips-vc/quick_snack flunk her senior year.]] Though, truthfully, [[spoiler: it was done as an excuse to keep Suki in the story, since she was the only one of the cheerleaders [[EnsembleDarkhorse that the fans liked]]]].

* By her own admission Cassandra of ''WesternAnimation/HighSchoolUSA'' [[spoiler:thought she was]] 100% Chinese. She's also about 300% vapid, self-important moron. Fortunately (for men) she's very attractive. [[spoiler:Subverted when it was revealed that her parents were actually Americans who moved to China to pick up their old manufacturing jobs who then applied permanent skin coloring and plastic surgery on their daughter to make her appear to be Chinese]].

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* A partial example in the title character of ''Manga/HimoutoUmaruChan''—at school, she seems to be a pretty, smart and all-around nice person, but at home, she's a lazy slob who plays games, sleeps, and chugs junk food and soda all the time, and often guilt-trips or borderline ''bullies'' her beleaguered ''onii-chan'' (older brother) Taihei into waiting on her hand and foot. She also didn't even know what an Internet router was until she spilled soda on it—which, of course, caused an internet outage, which pretty much traumatizes her, even if temporarily so.
** Oddly, Umaru could even be considered for DumbBlonde, given her hair's a strawlike shade of yellow.
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* Tiffany, a member of the Fashion Club on ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}''. She was by far the least offensive or hostile of the group, but that's more because she has absolutely no motivation or ability to form her own opinions. She's, of course, jaw-dropping gorgeous, and popular amongst her male peers for obvious reasons. She has no actual characterization: she just [[YesMan agrees with whatever her white friends tell her to]]. She was also the ''dumbest'' character of the Fashion Club; she, literally, agreed with whoever spoke last, lost her place on a piece of paper three sentences in, and just so you know, that isn't how fast she speaks, that's how fast ''she thinks''.

* One of the cheerleaders in the original ''BringItOn''
* The mean-girl ring-leader in ''Chastity Bites''.

* ''Film/CrazyRichAsians'' has two characters filling Type Two (see below) but Amanda fits the AlphaBitch qualifications. She's a BitchInSheepsClothing that appears friendly to Rachel but pulls a horrible prank on her as soon as her guard is down. Astrid meanwhile subverts both types by being SpoiledSweet and highly intelligent.

** The Asian girls who also had a CatFight after finding out they were both secretly sleeping with the coach. The movie also noted that "Asian nerds" and "cool Asians" were separate cliques at that school.

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A stereotype used in various media, growing to prominence in TheNineties and UsefulNotes/TheOughts. More or less, the Asian equivalent of a DumbBlonde.