2018.08.25 09:31
https://www.pbs.org/video/why-do-we-say-asian-american-not-oriental-4mohsx/
(PBS; Why do We say Asian American not Oriental?)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IUYEHjm-77c
(CNN: Crazy Rich Asians’ star; Audience wants this)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hE_XKBxnw2o
(trailer: My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggU23VxDYU
(abc news: crazy rich Asians, box office hit)
Crazy Rich Asians opened up in major theaters on August 15 and it is
a box office hit. Even though all actors and actresses are Asians, all kinds
of Americans are flocking to the theaters to see it. It is a romantic comedy.
It reminds me of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”. I think it is much better
than that. The plot, scenes, music, acting and cultural representation was
excellent. The movie is based on the novel with same name and the author
Kevin Kwan grew up in Singapore. It is about crazy rich Asians in Singapore.
The movie starts with the seen that Asian family trying to check in a hotel
in London. The manager, an English white man is refusing to give her the room
supposed to be reserved. Eventually they are checked in only after they realized that
the hotel was sold to the family.
English called Asians mostly from north east Asia or Far East “orientals”
To them, Asians were uncivilized and inferior to Europeans. When they say
Orientals to the people from the east, it has the above connotations. It is
a derogatory term.
2018.08.25 23:22
2018.08.27 09:44
https://mnews.joins.com/article/22919272?cloc=joongang%7Chome%7Copinion
(그로벌 아이: 크레이지 리치 차이니스 8/28 중앙일보)
During 19th century, European leaders used “Yellow Peril” theory to invade and conquer
the east, mainly China. German Kaiser Whilem II brain washed his soldiers with it
in order for them to kill Chinese relentlessly during Boxer’s Rebellion on 1899.
European rulers led the public to believe that yellow people from the east are sort of
monsters and they will wipe out all of us, white people if we do not kill them first.
Yellow Peril was a xonophobia toward Asian people to justify European colonization
of Asia.
Boxer’s rebellion was the last spell of dying Qing dynasty. Six countries from Europe,
U.S. and Japan fought against Chinese rebels and government forces. German soldiers
were most brutal.