Admittedly anecdotal but I recall when my brother went on a school trip to Japan, him and his school mates were expected to do an embarrassing dance number akin to the Haruhi Suzumiya dance for the students of a Japanese school; I also recall folks who went to teach English in Japanese schools who were merely hired as aides to repeat what the teacher was saying but in a goofy manner. I was like “What a racist cult- oh wait we do that too”.
I remembered Ken Jeong and hearing him speak in an interview and was shocked he didn’t have that accent he puts on in his movies. I then remembered some Asian Americans who said you have to sell out deeply to be accepted in America, and if you say one thing that can be interpreted as pro-China (even calling out Japanese war crimes against China), you lose everything. We like our non-white Americans to be stereotypes and we get scared when we can’t otherize them; we’re also quick to distrust them.
I’m ashamed to admit it, but I do find the show to be very funny
No shame to it. It’s not the hangover
Try to rent an apartment in Japan as a foreigner. ‘sorry no gaijin’. Yeah it still happens. So much racism fucking everywhere it’s exhausting
do they apply the
filter for defining someone as “gaijin”They are much stricter over there, white boys are dirty gaijins too, same if you’re Asian but not Japanese.
japan never denazified either it seems
They haven’t. They are still denying their warcrimes commited during world war II, and they have a shrine in Tokyo in honor, amongst others, of the people responsible of the Nanjing massacre.
You wanna know a quick way us poc gain white friends in the west (or even from countries like south africa etc)? And I mean life long ones (and I don’t mean all of course but this problem is so widespread ) ? Trash your culture and virtues. (Oh my asian, black culture is so backward). Play up charicatures. For a bonus you get a pat on the head and called ‘one of the good ones’. These types are sneaky and try to ease you in with racial jokes. This is like a shit test to see if you’re really “down”. Or pretend you didn’t hear that.
i will never stop making fun of white south africans you cant make me
except that one eff kid
Never met a nice south african
The point about Kim Jeong is how I feel about Uncle Roger. I like cooking content on YouTube, but every time there’s any sort of Asian food involved someone references this minstrel show character as if some Malaysian stand-up comedian with a fake accent is the authority on all Asian cooking even if it’s neither Chinese or Malaysian
Probably because I’m around an internationally diverse group of working class coworkers all the time I don’t have to do shit to “fit in”. Outside of the usual initial introduction bullshittery jokes that usually comes with saying I’m Korean, the most “foreigner humiliation” esque shit I ever really encounter is from the footsoldiers of Capitalism aka middle management and up. Petty boogie fucking gentrified white boy club that stay in their own social circles and are ever so surprised by reality every time they step outside of it and realize people that aren’t like their 2D personality selves aren’t all walking stereotypes.
I’m Korean
Hi Korean I’m dad
purge user
send ur hottest officer plz
I can’t be everywhere at the same time to purge everyone.
How is purge user different from ban?
Your account gets completely erased from the database. So like let’s say somebody makes an account here and starts uploading very illegal images here. If we remove them they’re just removed from sight but still a part of the image database.
Purging it just flat out scrubs everything.
So if someone makes a comment that may doxx themselves or other people we can come by and make it just not exist.
It deletes all posts and comments plus ban
Speaking of Ken Jeong. Was “asian spanish teacher” treated as something strange enough to be funny?
Not on its own- the inferiority complex cranked up to psychosis levels was the main joke
I uncritically love community so I’ll throw hands with anyone who talks shit
No and it’s even pointed out in the show.
Of the two I would choose the dance number. A minute of dancing to old JPOP with students, especially if they’re younger than high school, sounds cute and good actually to me. If you’re going to learn about a culture, dance seems like a great place to start. Compared to what you described for Asian actors this seems incredibly light hearted and inviting.
I can’t speak to the variable quality of being an aide, though it does sound like shit work to just repeat things. I wonder if it reflects the capability of that particular aide, a bias of the teacher, a culture of distrusting the aides, or any combination of the above.
I genuinely despise weebland so much
I fully discriminate against weebs and weeb culture
