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Are people like Jet Li and Jackie Chan to stereotypical to count?
by random_32467 11y ago
Are people like Jet Li and Jackie Chan to stereotypical to count?
- kelukelugames 11y agoWhat if black actors only played athletes?
- douche 11y agoThere's other examples like Ken Jeong, Kal Penn, John Cho, and more. Also the weird history of Asian actors playing Native Americans in Westerns...
- potatolicious 11y agoI'll give you John Cho and Kal Penn. But Ken Jeong? The guy whose biggest movie role to date is "Mr. Chow" in The Hangover, where he pranced about in tighty whities with an exaggerated Chinese accent and making slow jerkoff motions? The same Ken Jeong who infamously did this shoot with GQ? http://www.gq.com/gallery/ken-jeong-kate-upton-mens-slim-corduroy-pants http://www.gq.com/gallery/ken-jeong-kate-upton-mens-slim-cor... Video if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hLYXqqgfAY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hLYXqqgfAY It's hard to perceive much of his work as anything but modern variations of Long Duk Dong, ultimately I consider his work to have added to Asian stereotypes. The guy is free to take the role he wants, but IMO as far as "actors dismantling Asian stereotypes with their work" his career so far has been as far from it as it gets.