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I’m done with Hollywood. Top gun Maverick blew the doors off in the box office for 2022. Yet it won nothing? I’m with Tom Cruise on this one. Hollywood has gone woke, let it go broke.
A cis-Asian? They must be pretty bigoted.
Michelle who?
Good for the Asians of the theater.
They are just as creative as other groups. If their work serves to entertain and enlighten, they have earned that time in the limelight.
Some themes are universal.
Be careful, be very careful.
Many, many moons ago Asians were one of the protected groups. Then, they began excelling at places like the University of California college system. So much so that the UC system began considering them no different than those evil, privileged whites.
Well, I think I have a way for the stone-cold UC racists to justify their racism. A brand new category:
CaucASIANS.
Asia includes all countries from Turkey all the way to Japan
And most of Russia. Hard to believe the actress is first Asian. First Oriental may be.
People identify as Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Swedish, Vietnamese, Irish, Greek, Lithuanian, Laotian, English, Cambodian, Swiss, etc.
White American liberals want them to identify as their ethnic group so it's easier to catalogue the grievances white American liberals want to tag them with, so white American liberals can virtue signal their sympathy.
When I was a kid in the 50’s, the term for people from the Orient, was Orientals.
The US is a weird place, seen from Asia, with respect to “Asians”. In Asia there is no such thing as a general Asian identity. The very idea is absurd. An Indian is not a Chinese, a Filipino is not a Korean.
In the US it exists, but as a white people thing. That any Asians take up such rhetorical tics is to fit in with white (mainly liberal subculture) expectations.
She is from the Malaysian Chinese community, that is, an overseas Chinese. That’s quite a distinct group. They tend to be middle class and above in Yeoh’s generation, but their ancestors are in the extremely poor peasantry of Cantonese and Fukien/Fujian (China’s Dogpatch) origins, which were mostly shipped out as indentured labor.
A very good book on the subject is “World on Fire” Amy Chua(yes, the “Tiger Mother”).
This was supposed to be a Jackie Chan movie.
The change to the female star seems to have worked out well.
i saw it on an airplane with the sound off most of the time.
it had some interesting aspects, such as an alternative existence in which individuals existed as animated rocks on a desert planet.
however the general premise seemed overworked, and additionally burdened with somewhat trite asian tropes (no matter who produced and directed).
i am willing to be corrected, especially since i did not get the opportunity to view the film in an optimal manner.
on TG2, the production goal seemed to be to tell a good story in an exciting way, without too many oscar pretentions, and in those aspects, it seemed to succeed very well.
Talk about discrimination...
Did you know that the only Irishman who has identified as an ‘Irishman’, and who’s ever won the best actor award is Daniel Day Lewis? He’s won the award 3 times, and Gangs of New York wasn’t one of them.
The Banshees of Inisherin was nominated for 9 Academy Awards this year and won none.
Did you know that Irish actors and filmmakers have only been nominated for 104 Academy awards in it’s history, and that they have only won 18 times in total?
Now that... Is discrimination, and it happens every year during Irish History month.
Nancy Kwan - I Enjoy Being A Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JigBfoDtzY
There is no Asian race. There are dozens of races between the Bosphorus and the Bering Strait.