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The lack of Filipino nurses in Grey's Anatomy should be considered a hate crime

As an Asian American I think most of the writers are focused on how other Asians can relate not how all ethnic group could relate.

Not enough Kung Fu

Thanks. Most of the movie seemed to be "an asshole gets on a plane in New York, an asshole gets off a plane in Seattle."

excellent and please make more

God this was so masterfully put together

Not sure but i think when Margret says she had no role models growing up isnt she disrespcting her entire family

To be fair, growing up as a Chinese being the majority population, if my local TV channel all of a sudden decides to film a TV show using mostly minority cast demonstrating their daily lives. What’s the chance of me watching i? Ver low unless it’s very funny. Or unlikely because I simply can’t relate. 😅

I loved fresh off the boat it gave me everybody hates Chris vibes

Leave it to Canada to get it right. "Kim's Convenience" is one of the funniest shows of any that I've watched, even if on Netflix in the US.

During the time I picked up something from 80's and 90's cartoons. Often those life lessons and not only I managed to keep myself out of trouble, but was more at peace. Sadly, most people didn't understand where or why I got that. Of course I never told them. Good morals will get you punished for most time, but I assure you, sometimes it's worth to keep them.

America is still mostly demographically white. People don not usually find foreign issues interesting whether whit, black or asian

Lumping Asian American and Pacific Islander together makes no sense whatsoever. Why muddy the waters? Asian category alone already leads to confusion as there are so many types of Asians, but then you throw in a completely arbitrary group in with Asians, Pacific Islanders, in as well?? Yikes. Keep AA & PI separate, they each have their own value and their own issues that deserve representation without latching on to the other group for no reason than lazy xenophobic Westerners devaluing these people.

Please don't let up love this from your perspective and partly having my own theories and opinions either validated or improved upon

Great video maan This one of my favorite movies off all time

Racist the wrong word😂 shit hilarious though

This is the best Ghibli video essay ive seen.

Kim's convenience is probably better at showing Asians as actual human beings although it's kind of boring.

When I was younger and watched Lilo and Stitch; I felt a massive connection between Lilo and myself because then (and even nowadays) I was considered the "weird girl/kid". Loud, brash, prone to doing things outside of societal norms; I'd always be confused and sad after having an episode/outburst over something seemingly insignificant or what I was expected to follow, which I now realize was me trying to tune out my emotions dealing with a split household and creepy stepfather. I saw myself in Stitch because I used to physically damage people and objects due to how hard my emotions were affecting me, then would regret it once realizing the damage I'd done. Like Stitch I now have people who understand me as a person and how to help me work around my quirks to find a middle ground, I got my "ohana" in the end and I'm glad to be able to look at this movie and still see myself in both titular characters because at my core; I'm still that same wierd little girl :)

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I absolutely loved FOTB. I grew up with first generation Asian & Indian kids... I felt that this show was pretty accurate. The dad was also kinda easy on the eyes too.

After I saw the film with my family as a kid, my radically secular mother (a medical doctor) told me Pi made up the whole thing to cope with the fact he cannibalised the cook - but my gran, a Bengali Hindu, said that was rubbish and he survived alongside a tiger. Probably says something about why we believe and the question the book/film asks...

The colorism

Unfortunately, same song different tune. Media always white washes to make things "more palatable" for whites. But I am grateful for those that persevered.

I'm 37, white, conservative, these are some of my favorite movies, though I prefer the movies that were more his to make. It never once crossed my mind that no white people were in the lead. I've never gone to a movie hoping to see a self insert. I just don't understand were the mind set comes from. I watched tons, and I mean tons of Arnie movies as an 80s baby. Yea sure he's white, but I mean, I'm also 5'4" and redheaded. I don't look like the man. And again, I didn't go to the movies to see me, I went to *escape* me. It seems like people go to the movies to be coddled and bias confirmed these days, more than to see a movie, or that's what the movie industry thinks we want, or something. I don't know. I'm just sad to see something I loved so much to corrupted like it has. Movies are awesome and they'll always be that last shred of magic the world has. I might not get many, if any new magic moments, but no matter what changes, or why, they won't take the magic I've already experienced. Just sucks that won't happen for other people anymore.

Seems like Jackie meant showing face, not saving face @7:18

Nothing about the film says that the creature is extraterrestrial. We initially assume its visiters from another planet, but soon discover that its not.

Dr Seuss was the man. He wasn’t perfect but people shouldn’t be so quick to judge his past.

I found his music when I was a kid, I was 12? He’s the artist that open the gateway of r&b and rap for me. I only was aware of Drake because of Abel. Along with fashion, culture, and art. I was wearing leather jackets, heeled boots, and body con dresses when I was in middle school. Not for the desire of attention, just because he made me feel confident about myself. I had so much self hatred towards myself since I was a child and being 23, I’m still in that cycle process of closing out my youth and going into adulthood. It’s strange to grow up watching him change, needless to say I don’t listen to him much anymore. He lost himself, it’s a dark abyss you trap yourself into. In general lost interest in Hollywood and Celebrity culture. Time is changing everything. The emphasis of Trilogy and Kissland will be reflective of the future we’re stepping into. Nobody will be following celebrities for art or influence anymore. If you desire that then you’ll be seeking out small venues at underground clubs, trap houses, even abandoned buildings, etc. It’ll be thrilling to see the step down from needing Hollywood to be famous, but his music career is done. I don’t believe he has anything he could sell to his fans anymore. Actually, I’m lying. Trilogy 2.0, but he’ll never pull the trigger.

First of all the title of the show insult to Asians.

As far as how boys/males bond. Sadly it is true. My tight bro group is toxic. Has been. We bullied each other, fought, insulted ect, racist or sensitive stuff thrown around. But its also how we know we love each other. More times than i can count, when one of us is down, we soften up and we protect our brothers, no one hurts one of us. Every relationship is sacred, we undoubtly love each other, but we dont say "I love you" maybe one on one, when things are serious, we do pour our hearts out and tell how we appreciate and need each otherm

I'm not Asian but love the horror coming out of Japan and South Korea. Balled my eyes out watching Crouching Tiger and Everything All At Once. And still watch anime to this day. I think in the hands of its own people movies and tv shows, there's a creative touch that can't be matched by hollywood or outside source even if it is not recognized or appreciated as it should be.

Living in Orlando in the 90's we actually have a large Asian population. That's why I had an issue with the show. It made white people look like totally clueless backwater out of date leftovers from the 50s. It was good to see Asians on TV though. It just made me feel like they were making fun of where I lived.

From the Singapore perspective it was really white washed because it erased all of the brown Singaporeans. It makes Singapore look like it’s ALL Chinese and it’s only depictions of brown asians is as servants or scary silent guards. This is a huge issue in Singapore as brown asians are minorities who do face a butt tonne of discrimination. Even in the book there is better representation. It doesn’t deal with racism because Chinese Singaporeans don’t have to deal with it. Also, those songs are not just covers of swing songs they ARE Chinese songs. “Wo Yao Ni De Ai”(the song you directly referenced) was a hit song by Chinese actress and pop star Grace Chang from the 1950s part of a new wave of Shanghai-based pop music called shi dai qu, or “songs of the times.” Of course it references western music but it was very much a hit of its own. I get that Asian Americans need representation but can we not diminish other Asians in the process

Yea Asians have these problems but continue to be the yt mans boot wiper. Pick a struggle.

We don't need Asian sitcoms. We need our culture that is what made us successful and that will continue to make a successful. The American propaganda complex also known as Hollywood has destroyed many cultures we don't need to be the next one.

I thought Tilda was great.

The prblem with FOB is that it wasn't funny. Growing up in Asia, watching Asian-Americans playing Asian stereotypes (putting on accents and not doing it well--Sorry, JoKoy, Easter Sunday was REALLY offensive) is just as cringey--no, it's even worse, in fact, more offensive than a white person pretending to be Asian. It's wrong at so many levels. The only successful Asian sitcom was Kim's Convenience. When Paul Sun-Hyung Lee puts on his Korean persona, you know that he fully embraced his parents culture and embodied it, which made his character endearing. The writing was good too, much better than FOB, sorry to say. The whole race agenda shouldn't drive the plot, putting the characters front and center will endear audiences to them and THEN make them interested to whatever "plight" minorities like us face. FOB's effort to push the race topic was too forced it turns everyone off, Asian and non-Asian alike. Characters are universal, agenda...not so much. Knowing what has gone down behind-the-scenes, how those white executives meddled with everything, now I understand why this series did not sit well with me from the start. This series was meant to be a step forward for the Asian-American community, it was actually a step back. Asians have A LOT LESS representation where I'm based, The Netherlands, yet majority of the roles I've been asked to play are not Asian-specific, because there are stories that can be told regardless of the color of an actor's skin. As long as an actor strives to do their craft well, they will be given the opportunity to represent whatever group they want, but the latter can't be the goal, it's a gift.

"Azns look so different from everyone else tho. Are they aliems?"

Personally I liked Kim’s Convenience over FOB

I think a Korean American playing a Chinese America is fine, Penelope Cruz has being playing latinas characters for ages even though she's European

I just found this channel, excellent and insightful analysis. As a white, cis-guy from the Midwest, I do think studios have a terrible problem with pushing boundaries for people like me, they assume we are too ignorant and frankly racist, to accept anything that doesn't conform to a narrow worldview. I would like to think the popularity of things like Squid Game, Parasite, and Train to Busan would recognize that films and shows can have cross cultural appeal. It's not a replacement for Hollywood's failures but at least that Americans can find more nuanced portraits outside of the US if they want to do so.

Eh because movies are funded by investors and Asian women are sexualized. Hollywood don’t fund movies to tell stories but to make money. So stop looking to Hollywood to tell your stories, look to Asia your homeland. We will always live on the margins. And most media featuring Asians will still be centered around Asian women to appeal to white men.

This was a truly impressive analysis. Well researched, well interpreted, informative, and factual. If someone wanted to know about Kendrick's evolution as an artist I'd direct them to this video.

Piscine was a very pure boy. That's why his name was kept after a crystal clear water pool. His soul was pure. Just like an animal. And he was spiritually inclined. He was more connected to nature than others. And I believe God had chosen him to test him and also to show him his Leela. I feel he was chosen. When the animals were left loose and while he was jumping in the boat he was crying about his family but he asks who left the animals loose? I feel he and the animals were saved because they were pure souls. He even talks to God the entire time on the boat. He surrenders to God. Asks God to show him... And then God does show him. I feel if a pure hearted devoted person asks God to show him his Leela then God shows... So he saw all those extraordinary things. And he showed gratitude. And he surrendered. So whatever God was testing him for he had passed. Also I think him caring for the tiger even though he ate the other animals was something only a pure soul could do. And he worked in order to feed the tiger and continued living on even in the bleakest situation ever possible. So his faith was that strong. In the last scene when he asks the Canadian guy which story he prefers.. the guy says the one with the tiger... It can mean 2 things here... One is that it's meaning is saying that your mind is everything... You can control what you believe and how you perceive... You can either accept the mysterious nature of God and his extraordinary things and choose to live a life in his faith... Accepting the tiger story is having the faith... That's what it means That's why it was a story that will make him believe in God.

Green is the only color of America. Just not enough Asian watchers to make it worth while. America is a house built by whites. Does China show white sitcoms?

Great essay

Asians are boring because they love money too much like Jews

Great video!! I have now watched three of your productions and find them to be informative and very well-done. I have a part-time job in which I sustain conversations in English with language learners who are mostly from Japan, China, South Korea and Taiwan. I am interested in the relationship dynamics between African-American and Asian cultures, so I oftentimes ask my students--many of whom have studied and lived in the U.S.--what images they receive in their home countries about Black people and how these images shape their perceptions of African Americans like me. The answers I receive from them certainly help explain the foundations of the often contentious relations that the two groups experience in this country.

You're lying. He never gave up on the Culture? stop. The b******* here comes yt folks when they see blacks trying to unify in the black culture , here comes the Bull ish trying to put different meanings and separate and divide 🗣wake up black people. Let's not do this again. Let's not.