I’m an american citizen (born in taiwan), I can say that I have experiences dealing with racism while growing up in the 80’s, but I just have a different way of dealing with it. The “bad apples” apply to every group. It’s better to have a good sense of humor and just brush it off.
1) the broken American Chinese dialect thing, I’ve heard it from various people of different color, last time was years ago from this black teenager. I reply to her in perfect English that I don’t understand “African”.
2) I don’t know about the race thing with “western steak house” but I do know it’s better to always hire young white female hostess even at P.F.Changs. It’s more “racist” I think, if a chinese place put up a for hire sign that’s written in chinese.
3) the smelly food. It never happened when I was in grade school, since I ate cafeteria food. The only time someone complained about the smell of food, was a stir fried squid (late 90’s) dish that I was eating, I continued to eat and offered them some.
*Just to add, never had any “racist” experience until high school. probably due immaturity of kids involved. I also didn’t experience any in college.
I have 1-2 asian and 1 black friend while growing up, rest of my other friends are all white.
This show will probably fail, I only like cooking shows personally speaking.
fun fact, I’d say, the worst smelling food that I ever had, would be durian. no wonder they have a law in Singapore that banned it in subway.
Where’d you grow up?