Did you know Asian Americans used to be stereotyped as the “Yellow Peril”? Asian men were painted as sexually dominant, and Asian women as aggressive seductresses. Sessue Hayakawa, the first Asian male film star in America, was typecast as the dominant Asian man, seducing white wives and, in his breakout role “The Cheat,” literally branding them. The complete change of narrative to “Model Minority” shows the flippant ways that people use racial stereotypes to manipulate public perception when convenient.