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▲<small>{{quote box|"[[Trope Codifier|Me love you, long time.]] ["You No Take Candle|Fiftin dolla, me love you too much.""}}]</small>
Among white racist stereotypes, one of the classics is that the difference between white women and Asian women is that white women are respectable while Asian women are to be considered as prostitutes. Whether or not the individual Asian woman is a sex worker
Starting out among white people, this stereotype has since been adopted and nourished by some conservative Asians, as a [[Double Standard]] to keep "their" women in line: Western women can be free and still respectable, but an Asian woman behaving in the same way is to be condemned as a prostitute. This typically come in the form of [[Entitled to Have You]] implications that every Asian woman has some kind of duty to marry an Asian man - if she goes [[Asian Gal
This trope can come to play in many different ways. When it is a part of a work's narrative itself, it might come in the form of the work's only female Asian character just happening to be a sex worker. When the trope is played by a character, it often come in the form of sexual harassment against a female Asian character - either by a white guy who consider her a whore for being Asian, or by an Asian guy who consider her a whore for not choosing him. It can also be used against male white characters, accusing him of being a john for visiting Asian countries or hanging out with Asian women.
This trope is sometimes used as a counterpoint for some other trope. In some settings, Asian women are [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] by default, but are easily [[Defiled Forever]] into this trope. In other settings, all Asian women are bad, although in different ways:
Often played as a [[Ms. Fanservice|pure sex-object]] or [[Pitying Perversion|object for pity]]. Hardly ever played as a [[Ethical Slut|admirable]] and [[Unproblematic Prostitution|problem-free]] character.
Frequently found in places where you can get a [["Happy Ending" Massage]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Subverted in ''[[Sin City]]''. Sure, the only Asian character just happens to be a sex-worker - but so
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'', with its infamous line "Me love you long time" (see the page pic). The second half of the movie takes place in Vietnam, yet [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12tce-THLUE the hooker saying this and a few more lines] still constitute the majority of Vietnamese characters' dialogue.
** Note that the soundtrack just
* In ''Jägarna'' ("The Hunters"), the villains are a gang of (Swedish redneck) petty criminals. Their lifestyle is to feign sickness to get welfare money from the state, while making a lot of money by killing reindeer belonging to the local Sami ethnic minority. Early in the movie, the narrative establish these hunters as being the scum of the earth, by having them sexually harassing a waitress and insist that it's okay because she is Asian and thus a whore. {{spoiler|After escalating to murdering some random innocent people, they [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|escalate further]] to raping the waitress while their leader use "Chinese hooker" as some kind of mantra. Oh, and he does know that she's not Chinese, the incorrect use of nationality is a part of establishing him as ignorant racist scum.}}
* In the 1960s movie ''The World of Suzie Wong'', Suzie is depicted as a prostitute who falls hopelessly in love with a Caucasian man who refuses to return her feelings.
* Exploited in ''[[The Fighter]]'', as Dicky Ward's girlfriend readily poses as a hooker for a scam they are running.
* At one point in ''[[Ong Bak]]'', an American fighter taunts the Thai fighters claiming Thai women come to the US and become hookers because Thai men are wimps.
* In ''[[
** As for the racist "all Asian women are sex-workers" stereotype version of this trope, the movie averts it by having Gloria as a central character, Gloria's mother as an important side character, and loads of minor female Asian characters who have nothing to do with the sex industry.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Michael Holbeq's ''Platform'' initially
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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