Basic Trope: Non-Asians confusing the ethnicities of Asians.
* Straight: Bob cannot tell Lee the Chinese and Nakamura the Japanese apart.
* Exaggerated:
* Bob often confuses his best friend Lee with random Asian guys.
* A show has multiple Asian characters all played by the same actor.
* Justified: Bob came from an isolated community with little Asian contact.
* Inverted: Ang, a Chinese, cannot tell the difference between Jack the Englishman and Jacques the Frenchman.
* Subverted: Bob can easily tell the two apart, but was just pretending he couldn't.
* Double Subverted: ...But it turns out to be a lucky guess and he really still can't tell them apart.
* Parodied:
* Lee and Nakamura look ridiculously obviously Chinese and Japanese respectively, but e
| Attributes | Values |
|---|
| rdfs:label
| - All Asians Are Alike/Playing With
|
| rdfs:comment
| - Basic Trope: Non-Asians confusing the ethnicities of Asians.
* Straight: Bob cannot tell Lee the Chinese and Nakamura the Japanese apart.
* Exaggerated:
* Bob often confuses his best friend Lee with random Asian guys.
* A show has multiple Asian characters all played by the same actor.
* Justified: Bob came from an isolated community with little Asian contact.
* Inverted: Ang, a Chinese, cannot tell the difference between Jack the Englishman and Jacques the Frenchman.
* Subverted: Bob can easily tell the two apart, but was just pretending he couldn't.
* Double Subverted: ...But it turns out to be a lucky guess and he really still can't tell them apart.
* Parodied:
* Lee and Nakamura look ridiculously obviously Chinese and Japanese respectively, but e
|
| dcterms:subject
| |
| dbkwik:all-the-tro...iPageUsesTemplate
| |
| dbkwik:allthetrope...iPageUsesTemplate
| |
| abstract
| - Basic Trope: Non-Asians confusing the ethnicities of Asians.
* Straight: Bob cannot tell Lee the Chinese and Nakamura the Japanese apart.
* Exaggerated:
* Bob often confuses his best friend Lee with random Asian guys.
* A show has multiple Asian characters all played by the same actor.
* Justified: Bob came from an isolated community with little Asian contact.
* Inverted: Ang, a Chinese, cannot tell the difference between Jack the Englishman and Jacques the Frenchman.
* Subverted: Bob can easily tell the two apart, but was just pretending he couldn't.
* Double Subverted: ...But it turns out to be a lucky guess and he really still can't tell them apart.
* Parodied:
* Lee and Nakamura look ridiculously obviously Chinese and Japanese respectively, but even then Bob cannot tell them apart.
* Lee and Nakamura are actually identical.
* Deconstructed: Bob's inability gets him in trouble with ultranationalists and ethnic gangs who think he's mocking them.
* Reconstructed: But then see Bob going out of his way to actually learn about them and give it a pass.
* Zig Zagged: Sometimes Bob can tell them apart, sometimes he cannot.
* Averted: Bob can differentiate between Asian ethnicities.
* Enforced: "Talking about differences in Asian cultures might confuse viewers. Let's just have one Asian to represent everyone."
* Lampshaded: "I can't tell what race you are!"
* Invoked: ???
* Exploited: In the face of anti-Chinese sentiment, Lee pretends to be Japanese.
* Defied: Bob does his research to avoid making this sort of mistake again.
* Discussed:
* Conversed: ???
* Played For Laughs: ???
* Played For Drama: A World War II drama where Chinese immigrants to America have to contend with racism due to being constantly mistaken as Japanese. Back to All Asians Are Alike.
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)