All Asians Are Alike/Playing With: Difference between revisions

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* '''Inverted''': Ang, a Chinese, cannot tell the difference between Jack the Englishman and Jacques the Frenchman.

* '''Subverted''': Bob can easily tell the two apart, but was [[Obfuscating Stupidity|just pretending he couldn't.]]

* '''Double Subverted''': ...But it turns out to be a lucky guess and he really still can't tell them apart.

* '''Double Subverted''': ...But it turns out to be a lucky guess, and he really still can't tell them apart.

* '''Parodied''':

** Lee and Nakamura [[Wearing a Flag on Your Head|look ridiculously obviously]] Chinese and Japanese respectively, but even then Bob cannot tell them apart.

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* '''Enforced''': "Talking about differences in Asian cultures might [[Viewers are Morons|confuse viewers]]. Let's just have one Asian to represent everyone."

* '''Lampshaded''': "I can't tell what race you are!"

* '''Invoked''': Lee uses Bob's obtuse inability to differentiate between Asian ethnicities to press the Berserk Button of Nakamura, who is constantly fed up with this trope, with the hope that a good punch from the Japanese guy helps Bob grow of it.

* '''Invoked''': ???

* '''Exploited''': In the face of [[China Takes Over the World|anti-Chinese sentiment]], Lee pretends to be Japanese.

* '''Defied''': Bob does his research to avoid making this sort of mistake again.

* '''Discussed''': "And of course, there comes the white person that cannot tell a Thai person from a Korean and cannot differentiate sushi from fried rice, as if they hadn't enough stereotypes of racists already in this film"

* '''Discussed''':

* '''Conversed''': ~~???~~

* '''Conversed''':

{{Quote|'''Lee:''' Bro, why Bob cannot distinguish between Asian folk? He confused me for you for the third time this week! We aren't even that similar looking!

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* '''Played For Laughs''': ~~???~~

'''Nakamura:''' Well, it is not like I can differentiate between white people either!}}

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* '''Played For Laughs''':

** Lee and Nakamura use Bob's inability of distinguish between them to prank him repeatedly.

** Bob is put in charge of guiding a visiting Korean boy band, and he not only confuses their nationality but the members themselves, even when they all have very different outfits, hair colors and even body shapes, confusing the poor artists who think it's a prank from their manager and just play along.

* '''Played For Drama''':

** A World War II drama where Chinese immigrants to America have to contend with racism due to being constantly mistaken as Japanese.