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Television's long embarassing history of subverting the dominant paradigm.
[Editor's note: The original headline has been changed since its sarcasm didn't go over so well. We apologize for any hurt feelings. We've also removed the reference to Confucius.]
Good Lord, what was ABC thinking by creating the
first-ever sitcom [correction,
second sitcom] that revolves around an Asian-American family?
I looked pretty darn hard and could not figure out which one was supposed to be the JJ Evans character... the Chinese invented
Dynomite! right? Or was that just gunpowder. There are however a lot of jokes about how the kids like hip-hop and the parents just don't get it, or about how lame white people are. (That's probably my white privilege talking.)
Fresh Off The Boat, and yes it is really called that, is about a family that moves from DC to Orlando so that the patriarch can run a steak house. The parents are having a really hard time adjusting to American culture since they are first generation, but dagnabbit not the kids, who wear "T-shirts with black men on them," according to their mom. It's still hard to be Asian in the suburbs of Florida, however, and they do feel different and left out from the dominant white paradigm. Hilarity ensues.
