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Why almost always evil Americans?

posted 5 years ago by Rorikon (17855)
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I've seen a lot of Hong Kong/China movies (mostly kung fu ones) where they almost always depict Americans as the evil doers and then the Chinese come out on top by defeating said American foe. The American foes are always heavily built, tall, slow moving brutes. Funny how Americans don't give a shit about it but if America does something about evil China, they'll get banned/censored/removed/threatened and they'll cave in to it (though that's slowly changing for some companies).

[–] cupcakekid (37) 3 years ago

The enemies in this franchise have been British, Japanese, American and Chinese.

Have you watched American movies? They've recently stopped due to China's box office power but routinely, Asian people were cast in stereotypical roles where they were either submissive women, triads, dragon ladies, villains, speaking broken english etc.

Now they tend to swap out Chinese villains with North Korean.

There was a period when many villains were black, russian and asian. Black actors managed to break into the mainstream and get supporting roles earlier. Asians kind of only broke the barrier to audition for smaller non-villain roles with no specified race in the last couple of decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrayal_of_East_Asians_in_American_film_and_theater

[–] Cognoscente (2642) 2 years ago

If you thought this movie was biased, check out RRR.