Sidesplitter: How To Be From Two Worlds At Once

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And if that sentence doesn’t make much sense to you, you are invited to delve into the complexity of loving something like Indiana Jones so much and yet, having mixed feelings. He points out the daftness of the more extreme reactions to perceived “cultural appropriation” while asking people to simply not be rude in the way that they might “use” elements from a different culture. As someone mixed race, I found myself frequently agreeing with him - especially on the racial and sex chapters - as mixed race of certain ethnicities we are so often stereotyped by the traditional idea of our ethnicity, and often not given the space to express our own feelings. Wang's maternal grandfather was from Derbyshire and became the manager of a tea estate in Assam, India, where his mother spent part of her childhood. In the 2000s, the book delves into the continuously increasing representation as well as the growing power of alternate distribution mediums, like YouTube, in democratizing diversity of perspectives of Asian Americans which, in the year 2022, proved to be a double-edge sword.

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They included lots of different voices and highlighted a wide variety of Asian pop culture from food, to film, to literature, to movie stars, and racist incidents.Along with the growing US appreciation of Jackie Chan and Hong Kong movies, we got the ‘Joy Luck Club’ as a major American movie with a near 100% Asian cast – though little did we know we would have to wait 25 years(! So being a part of an old institution that’s predominantly associated with the white man is a poisoned chalice.

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It’s an Asian thing, apparently – and it’s rubbed off on Phil’s comedy, which is witty and crafty, but seldom heartfelt and certainly not high-octane.I especially like the fact that while he says he is comfortable with the ‘where are you really from’ question when it comes from a place of genuine curiosity, but he recognises that his experience and perspective is personal and that for other people there are good reasons why that question can be offensive. My only criticism is that any time there was a numbered map or foldout, some numbers were missing or not labeled properly. He was very happy in Malaysia, with his two sisters and “163 cousins”, doing the martial art Shorinji Kempo every Saturday in the dojo run by his uncle David. Wang won the 2010 Chortle Student Comedian of the Year Award [14] and, in 2011, Comedy Central's Funniest Student Award. Representation is more important to me now that I am a parent, and something that was really missing from my childhood.

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Almost as good as the only other comedian’s memoir I really rate, which was How not to be a Boy by Robert Webb, which was excellent. I give British food a tough time for being bland , but I make an exception for puddings, which this country does very, very well.And the book is about the process of coming to terms with that and realising it’s also a gift – not something to be regretful for. I found his chapter on race the most thought provoking, especially when defending an old racist British sitcom from the 1970s. There are some points that I felt annoyed or disagree with, but huge chunk of his writing on nostalgia and anecdotes of being both East and West hit home. That was the main appeal about standup, now I think about it, for me as an awkward teenager: it was a formalised setup for interacting.