I know I have been late in this discussion...but, seriously, when was I ever on-time for any trend, right? *laugh*
So, it all began when I watched 'Tokyo Drift'.... (I may have talked to a countless number of people about this already)
Got me started on the whole Asian-American identity crisis.
Um, *dry cough* I am Taiwanese-American-Canadian-soon-to-be-Cantonese, and I think I may have gotten myself into a very very BIG identity crisis here.
Who am I? Taiwanese? T-American? T-Canadian? T-A-C-Cantonese?
NONE OF THE ABOVE?
Oh, and did I ever tell you guys that I have been mistakenly known as a Korean a few times?
By Koreans.
In Vancouver.
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Sorry~ was a little side-tracked...*laugh*
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Anyhow, I believe Tokyo Drift is probably one of the very few movies that I have seen without the whole Kung-Fu fighting / Submissive women / Prostitution / FOB / Gangster roles....(I think that's enough description there.)
This movie made Asians "HOT" !!
Hollywood really should start re-thinking on this whole employing Asians in their LIMITED role gig.
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And on the identity crisis thing...
We should be proud of being an Asian.
The rest are just BS!!
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Both Japanese and Chinese in NYC always mistake me as Japanese! Sometimes they juz start the conversation in Japanese w/o confirming w/ me. *sigh*
Yes! Even Asians can't tell Asian's apart.
I have met a couple of Koreans that were lost in Vancouver, and just came up to me and asked me for directions in Korean.
I told the the woman that I wasn't Korean, and the funniest thing was that she didn't believe me!
Hahahaha....
Funny that non-Japanese and non-Chinese can tell that I'm Chinese. My Japanese classmates in undergraduate said that they still can't believe that I'm not Japanese.
I always said that I should at least learn how to say "I dunno Japanese" in perfect Japanese. *lol*
BTW, do you speak Cantonese w/ Nick now?
Haha...
Ummm...still no fluent Cantonese for me.
All I know are just words...
Not sentences...
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No worries, I have this identity crisis from time to time, myself.
Re: Tokyo Drift: I haven't seen this movie, but it sounds good if it leaves out all the cliched stereotypes. It does seem like one major one is still there though-- car racing. Hahaha I remember you talking about this stereotype in my documentary... "They think that we're all street racers..."
I thought there were japanese gangsters in that movie, but no kung fu...
Come to think of it, it must suck to be koreans this time of the year, imagine how many ppl would come up to you and say, "Gong Hai Fa Chai"...
whoops double posted... :)
Yup! there's Japanese Yakuza, but thank god, there's no more Asian gang fighting with other gangs like romeo must die.
Gosh, I thought Jet Li could have picked a better role.
Yes! we are all street racers + bad drivers...
Which sux, b/c I know some other ethnicities that are worst drivers than Asians. *haha*
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