![]() Nearly everything Chin-Kee does and the entirety of his appearance were inspired by real world pop culture happenings. Rather, those characters likely internalized their racist beliefs thanks to an American media landscape that casts Asian characters on the whole as little more than punch lines because of their perceived differences. ![]() ![]() Through this, American Born Chinese makes the case that the racism espoused by white characters in Jin’s story doesn’t emerge out of nowhere. The chapters telling Danny and Chin-Kee’s story are set up to read like a sitcom, Everyone Ruvs Chin-Kee with elements like a laugh track and organization that follows that of a classic television show. Racism and the idea of the foreign “other” are woven in throughout the book in a variety of ways, one of the most significant of which is the way that the book handles the intersection between racism and popular culture, specifically when it comes to television media.
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