Posted on 03/18/2015 11:42:53 AM PDT by 11th_VA
Just watched my first (and last) viewing of the new TV show, 'Fresh Off the Boat' last evening. After about 10 minutes, I couldn't believe what I was watching - had this show been about any other people group it never would have made it to the studio.
The show is about a Taiwanese family that immigrates to America in the 1990's. It's main character retells his growing up in America. The father figure in the family works at a store for his brother in Washington D.C. but decides to open a restaurant in Orlando, FL. So he moves his whole family to Florida.
What happens next is basic montage of 'White Racists Stereotypes' strung together to make a story.
1) The main character wishes he was still living in D.C. - he flashes back to living there as some white tourists try and ask him where the White House is; of course they assume he can't speak English and break in to a broken American Chinese dialect while asking.
2) Next flash to the 'Western Steak House' restaurant the dad opens. Business is slow so he decides the reason "white people" aren't coming to his restaurant are, the greeter is Asian - so he proceeds to hire a white greeter.
3) The son has an ordeal as lunchtime at school when he opens the noodle dish his mom prepared for him. All the white kids are eating prepackaged 'Lunchables' and ask him to leave the table because his food smells. He moves to another table where a black kid sits, and the black kid says, "I guess those white people weren't as accommodating as you thought they would be."
This was pretty much the theme for 30 minutes.
Yes, let's imagine a comedy series about a Korean store owner in Ferguson, Mo.
You watched more then I did. I managed to sit through the “dress like a mini thug” part but when he started ragging on his parents for liking America I decided it was not for me.
They are trying to erase the bad blood between Asians and blacks; it will never work. As long as Asians are the last small business owners in the hood, it is impossible to hide “the troof” from them.
Supposedly Ho embraced communism when the western democracies wouldn’t support the Vietnamese people in their quest for independence after WWI (he traveled to Versailles to advocate for it, but to no avail). The only support he could get was from the USSR and Mao, so he had to get with the program. Throughout the war many Viet Cong maintained that they were nationalists first and communists second; I don’t believe afterwards they had the harsh class warfare retributions that were seen in the USSR or Cambodia (though they were absolutely a dictatorship). That seems borne out by their rush to embrace capitalism now; FWIW, I don’t think we should have any dealings with the Hanoi government.
I don’t recall his exact words but Key made it clear that Ho was a Communist all along.
Maybe; if so he was way ahead of even some of his Soviet comrades.
I love The Goldbergs so I was looking forward to it. I lasted just to the point in the lunchroom and deleted it. I’m not a self-hating white, so I’m not volunteering for the abuse.
Liberals and gays. and Gay-Liberals create these shows and act in many of them.
Quite often the storyline and content reflect that SHALLOW POV that these dim-bulbs constantly try to peddle.
Ah my father’s side was from the north, while my mother’s were from the south.
I don’t know what it would be like to grow up in a community like that. but it seems like Richmond have many older taiwanese generations, my parents goes to a Chinese church, and their circle of friends are filled with taiwanese PHDs and MDs, almost exclusively.
Yeah, I think the community in San Gabriel is very large. I always see ads for businesses in Arcadia on the dishnetwork taiwanese channels. i know i will never go hungry if i live there. i love to try different food.
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