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Kim Chi is WILD it's like naming yourself Ta Males or Po Zole and vaguely pretend you're latinx 🙄 like at least put dome effort into researching when impersonating marginalized races/etnicities

I just discovered your channel from your Instagram and I just want to say I really love your content! It's shocking how easy it is for white people to pretend to be from another culture/ethnicity just to get the "benefits" that are there to try to even out the playing field... I only hope that these examples will discourage people who have thought about doing this

"It's like a Zutara romance." Me: Oh, well that sounds cool. "But it's like Unit 731." Me: Jesus!

this is RF Kuang's year ill say that much 😅

Not surprising, but this is not unique to literature. Look no further than the orientalism of classical music, or more egregiously, the case of Larry Clark. Larry Clark masquerading as an Asian woman, Keiko Yamada , in order to get more attention is quite disgusting and disappointing.

Hm. Idk maybe it's fun. I'm Chinese btw

I would really love a video about Lisa See, I can't find anything explaining anything controversial

THE AMOUNT OF EFFORT AND ENERGY THAT GOES INTO PRETENDING TO BE SOMEONE ELSE, SPECIALLY ANOTHER RACE (bc of the amount of culture differences), IS OUTRAGEOUS TO ME

You and withcindy are the ones keeping me updated with this stuff. Thank you for your service❤

Hi, bookseller here and isn't Lisa See a white lady?? Married to an Asian person??

40:50 THIS. There are just things that are wrong. Morally grey means maybe he steals stuff...not genoc/des entire populations.

Men write romance novels under a female pen name, women have written genre fiction in the past under male names. Shouldn't a work stand on its own merits, do we have to do virtue signaling in every aspect of life? If a work is good then judge it on its own merits regardless of who wrote the book.

Kimchi?? As in the food??? 😭

There was a white man who pretended to be Japanese and worked in Marvel comics with a pen name Akira Yoshida. Not counting countless authors who makes themselves experts in asian cultures and write fetishy books like Memoirs of geisha 🤡

Past lives is amazing movie 🎥 and I would definitely watch it again since the movies.

Great video, just one small correction, cait corrain is not a white woman, she is jewish. Ironically, she was very vocal in speaking out against "white privilege".

Sherman Alexie talking about giving special attention to women of color aged very poorly😬

I just don't understand why people think this is a good idea. If you get noticed, you'll get more scrutiny. If you get extra scrutiny, your charade is going to get unmasked, and then you're done. Finished. However good your work might've been, you're S outta luck.

I took an Ethnic Lit class and one of the books we read was No No Boy by John Okada. It's about a Japanese-American man who was incarcerated when he refused to enlist during WWII. I still think about it years later.

I feel like it's all too easy to just make fun of these people and move on and forget about the historical context so kudos for diving into that along with the usual drama that people make videos about

I like the book for the way the scenes were follower up. Like collin knew before eloise about whistledown. And collin and penelope going to featheringtons house first to announce their engagement. The spicy scenes were better in the book too. It wasn’t just collin falling in love with pen after one freaking kiss. In the book some things were better. The series legit changes the sequence

Psalmanazar really cosplayed a fantasy version of another race huh. The first time I learned about racefaking may have been the Marvel author who used a Japanese penname and talked about being Japanese in interviews. He used a penname coz he wasn't allowed to write as an editor, but that didn't explain why he needed to be Japanese. He ended up working on Japanese characters' stories, so he ended up taking space that could have gone to an actual Japanese writer. Anyway, nice to learn some historical examples.

This was an interesting video, thanks

kim chi????? i mean i guess it could be the name of an Asian person but isn't it a Korean dish? like fermented vegetables???

##Dolldat #LarutanSlay

thank you for such an interesting and well researched video!! i find it interesting that this phenomenon isn't limited to just the literary world either. just this week, it was revealed that a semi popular video game leaker was a white man pretending to be a japanese woman named midori (he even posted in broken english to make himself seem more... authentic). he defended himself by claiming, "The Midori persona as it is may not be a real person, but it is what I believe to be an accurate representation of a real person albeit in a particularly strange way that I wish I did not use. But it was never used to manipulate anyone or to appear more credible." where do these people get the audacity?!?!?!

I really liked that you brought in the actions of psalmanazar, the writing of edward said!!, kent johnson, and michael derrick hudson, all of whom besides edward said i had never heard of before. I don't use booktok but on other platforms I 100% curate my feed the exact same way you do, it's nice to know that I'm not alone in that regard. Thanks for the vidoe.

Blud really chose the most J.K. Rowling ahh name 💀

Reading the Book now. Show Colin is way superior in my opinion

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Show Colin is great, not perfect (he’s vulnerable, traumatized by Marina, betrayed by Penelope). But Book Colin is a brat.

I hate Show Colin after watching season three, but after watching this it looks like I hate Book Colin now 😂 He doesn’t get much better. Why is he so angry. For why lol

As a Palestinian-American... yikes.

Yessss, I love Diana Quincy ❤

The reason why Zutara is beloved and feels right(the ship this book is based off of) is that Zuko is knocked down from his postion of power when they become close, he whole heartedly regrets his prejudice and Katara doesn't forgive easily. They become friends very late only after all stuff is sorted, they dont ignore the elephant in the room and they discuss it. He is a redeemed villain who wants to right his wrongs. Not a straight up villain long before he and katara are even okay enough to be in the same room together

THIS IS ACTUALLY THE BEST ONE IVE SEEN LIKE OMLL ITS SO SMOOTH!❤❤

There's no better feeling than getting that email from library about needing to pick up holds 🥺

To be fair, I recently learned that trauma can in fact make a person lose whole chunks of their memories, and this whole "relationship" does feel rather Stockholm syndrome-y...that being said, the book still sounds awful. Thank you for the review!

I really like your analyses, it's just not a good book. Usually in fantasy, especially in fantasy with opresive govermental structures we're used to headstrong characters who rebel and are willing to die for the cause, or if you want to go the morally grey route, strong characters with clear desires. Ruying is simply neither of those, instead she's a super naive 19 year old who looks for short term survival and falls for the first guy that doesn't tell her her powers are kinda cool actually. If one thing, I do think she is written consitantly. The problem with a character like that is that it isn't the most interesting to read about, nor do we understand her struggles all that much because every reader (and even every other character on page) has already come to the logical conclusion: This occupation is bad. I didn't see any of the marketing before I started reading that book. And without that context I did think I was kind of getting what Molly X Chang was trying to do here. The central theme of "Heroes die, cowards live" is a good one which makes an awesome opportunity for a complex character that has a massive arc of coming into her own power. This could've been a very good and book without minimal changes to the actual plot If Molly just went for it. The pacing just throws it wayyy off. I think the entire book could've been fixed by showing us different scenes from the same story that have a bigger emotional impact. The part before she gets kindnapped needs to be way shorter, than the time skip needs to be fully fleshed out because that's when most of the plot actually happens. See Anthony's manipulation and Ruying's slow decent. Have her fall in love and slowly fall hard for his lies (and don't market it as a romance, make it clear that this is an abusive power imbalance). The last bit of the book where she "discovers" (she should've known) the thruth should've been there way earlier and then flesh out more moral dillema of not being able to leave this situation. Book two can than be about bringen the occupation down from the inside out. As it stands, Ruying is a very shallow character. During an active occupation not everyone can be a hero, some are just trying to survive. This is a strong theme in the book but I do think it was handled very poorly because Ruying remains so passive either way. The author didn't manage to sell the part where Ruying was doing it for survival well enough and that made the entire book fall flat. I think Molly X Chang was indeed afraid of making her too unlikable. But showing characters making big mistakes in the name of survival is a good set up for a redemption arc. During an active occupation not everyone can be a hero, some are just trying to survive. This is a strong theme in the book but I do think it was handled very poorly because Ruying remains so passive either way. The author didn't manage to sell the part where Ruying was doing it for survival well enough and that made the entire book fall flat.During an active occupation not everyone can be a hero, some are just trying to survive. This is a strong theme in the book but I do think it was handled very poorly because Ruying remains so passive either way. The author didn't manage to sell the part where Ruying was doing it for survival well enough and that made the entire book fall flat.

Also recommend Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend, a sapphic regency romance

0:04 The revolution obviously!

May I know what is the title of this song? Thank you.

i need to stop mentioning genet, nin and battaille to people...

In my opinion, its the writer's responsibility to research on serious topics such as colonialism if they intend to input it in their novels. Personal family history doesnt suffice compared to the greater narrative that are in our history books. Which is why I always applaud RF Kuang and the way she handled social issues in her books, because you can tell how much research she probably had done just to input such heavy social commentaries in her books.

no one will read the book i always talk about

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