after killing some time on the internet searching out nonsense like cookie recipes and 80's movies, i came across a character i haven't thought about in years... 16 candles' LONG DUK DONG. a character 'we can both laugh and cringe' at as quoted from NPR's Alison MacAdam.
as an adult, I LOVED this character. I even did drunken impressions of him for my white sympathetic friends. why not? it's a way of diffusing the racial tension by poking fun at it. ...poking fun at myself. ...poking fun at the slender, dorky, non-sexy asian male stereotype as portraide (sp according to google) by hollywood. and that's all ok, right?
listen to some other asian americans' opinions on NPR.
read adrian tomine's personal history of him and the 'donger'
follow geddy watanabe's (the 'donger') career on IMDB.com
a blog about movie back to the U.S. after a seven year hiatus in Japan. this was our life for the first year back from a little island to the big state of texas.
Friday, April 18, 2008
revisiting LONG duk DONG
Posted by keepEatingMatt at 7:29 PM
Labels: asian american issues, yellow pages comics
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