All Asians Are Alike: Difference between revisions

 

== Live Action TV ==

{{quote|'''Frank Burns:''' When are you going to learn about Chinese treachery? Didn't Pearl Harbor teach you anything?}}

* Parodied (but played straight) in ''[[Glee]]''. In "Throwdown," Sue splits the glee club in two and takes the minority students. [[Refuge in Audacity|Being Sue]], she calls African-American members Mercedes and Matt "Aretha" and "Shaft" respectively, before moving on to Asian-American Tina (Korean) and Mike (Chinese): "Asian" and "Other Asian." This gets carried forward where, in the later episode "Ballads," when the club take names out of a hat to find their partners for ballads Tina picks "Other Asian." When [[Token Minority Couple|they eventually become a couple]] everything they do, from dating to family meetings, is prefaced with the adjective "Asian," including "Asian Couples Therapy." Tina [[Lampshade Hanging|wonders why the couples therapy needs to be Asian]]. Later, when Sunshine Corazon (Filipino) considers joining the team, only to be mistreated by Rachel, Tina and Mike confront her and, when they are asked how they even heard about the situation, explain that the Asian community is very close.

* Played for comedy in ''[[Eastbound and Down]]'' when Ashley Schaeffer entertains some Korean business executives with Japanese food and a crossdressing geisha dancer. In the series finale, he brings it up again to lampshade it and admit his mistake.

* Averted in ''[[Tomorrows Rejects]]'', When Keiren is introduced to Phil Nguyen at his job interview, he said that he could tell just by looking at him that he's of Vietnamese descent, which impresses Phil so much that he gives him the job. Keiren later admits to Gilligan that Nguyen is the Vietnamese ecquivalent of someone with the surname Smith. In fact, it's estimated that up to 40% of the Vietnamese population have this surname.

 

== Music ==