All Asians Are Alike/Playing With: Difference between revisions

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** [[You All Look Familiar|Lee and Nakamura]] [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals|are actually identical]].

** Lee and Nakamura can't tell each other apart.

** Bob not only can't tell different kinds of East Asians apart, but also mixes up South and West Asians.

* '''Deconstructed''': Bob's inability gets him in trouble with ultranationalists and ethnic gangs who think he's mocking them.

* '''Reconstructed''': But then see Bob going out of his way to actually learn about them and give it a pass.

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* '''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.

* '''Exploited''':

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

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

** In a spy fiction, Chinese, North Korean or Vietnamese agents pretend to be Japanese to deceive American counterintelligence.

* '''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"