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nicklebro posted...

Crouching tiger hidden Dragon was based on a series of novels written by a Chinese author nearly a century before. It isn't dealing with Chinese "stereotypes". It's literally dealing with authentic Chinese culture. It was written, directed, and starred Chinese people, was filmed in China, and had a Chinese crew. So the casting and hiring was definitely not "diverse" lol, you seem to think that word means "not solely white people.".

Then you go on to argue that any movie about rich Asians is racist, and any movie about poor Asians is racist.... Lol forget the fact that they were accurate representations of Indian and Chinese culture, you will literally say any movie is racist because you're a virtue signaling PC vulture who is incapable of having an honest discussion because you always have an agenda. It's really embarrassing and something you should try to grow out of.

I don't dispute the source of the material, but merely calling out that the only movies which make it to Western screens are those which play to some kind of preexisting notion of what movies from that region/culture should address. As someone who lived in Asia (and I'm Chinese), there's a whole film industry which is largely unnoticed by most Westerners and there are plenty of other themes/genres whether it be comedy, thriller, horror, etc... but the ones which get the big budget release in the West are the ones which are defined by those stereotypes.

I don't argue that any movie about rich or poor Asians is racist - I'm arguing that the core themes in those is rooted in what are common Western perceptions which are only reinforced by these films.

EDIT: Changed lives to lived to be accurate since I recently moved back to Australia after living in Singapore for a couple of years.

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