Duchess of Sussex criticises 'over-sexualised' caricatures of Asian women in film

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latest episode of her Archetypes podcast, Meghan explored the “Dragon Lady” trope and the accompanying unconscious bias which she said could be “incredibly dangerous. ”“The power and the impact of these stereotypes that have the ability to strip away the humanity of entire groups of people… it cannot be underestimated,” she said.  “People, all people, are multidimensional and layered. ”She warned that such “toxic” stereotyping in films did not just end when the credits rolled.

The latest episode of the podcast, featuring conversations with journalist Lisa Ling and comedian Margaret Cho, was released on Tuesday after a four-week break following the death of the Queen.

The Duchess began by recalling her experience of growing up in Los Angeles which was "full of culture that you could see, feel, hear and taste on a daily basis".

She said she used to visit a Korean spa in Los Angeles with her mother, Doria Ragland, which at the time was one of the only parts of Asian American culture that she knew. "It's a very humbling experience for a girl going through puberty because you enter a room with women from ages nine to maybe 90, all walking around naked and waiting to get a body scrub on one of these tables that are all lined up in a row,” she said.  “All I waited was a bathing suit… you’re not allowed, by the way. "Once I was over that adolescent embarrassment, my mom and I, we would go upstairs we would sit in a room and we would have a steaming bowl of the most delicious noodles. ”The Duchess said that it was not until many years later that she learnt about “all the stigmas and archetypes” that so many women of Asian descent faced. “Those terms, those ideas, those stereotypes… they weren’t familiar to me,” she said.