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Korean Manicurist?

posted 19 years ago by Mactonline
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This was one thing(out of a million) that pissed me off. I know theres a stereotype of Koreans owning all the Nail businesses and thats fine if they wanna send that up. So why get a Chinese actress? now it would be fine if she was just there for appearence, because a lot of people cannot tell an asian from another asian. But no! she is actually speaking Chinese in the film. now im not chinese but i study asian languages and she was not speaking Korean.

Why do that? I have just convinced myself that Ming was just messin with everyone making them think shes korean. That must be it. cos the writers and directors cant be that stupid and ignorant-can they?

'silly girl.. there's plenty more box sets out there innit..'

[–] bodoe5783 19 years ago

oh, get a life......it's just a fun, human interest movie...not a poitical statement.....this type of stupidity takes "political correctness" to the extreme that makes one lose his/her lunch. attack of the puney brain.

[–] cat_luva_ 19 years ago

well i saw this movie & i haved to agree w/the 1st person. The typical "asian manucarist" is annoying and over used. It's in Legally blonde too.

[–] tree-45 18 years ago

So now a chinese person can't be a nail place owner

[–] Mactonline 18 years ago

yes they can be, i just think its ignorant to have a chinese woman-speaking chinese when shes supposed to be korean. korean does sound anything like korean except for some tones. hell sometimes its closer to japanese-in grammar anyway.

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[–] wolfinspirit 16 years ago

There are a lot of people of Korean descent that speak English, so it is possible that some actually speak Chinese as well.

Or did they actually SAY that she was SPEAKING Korean when she was speaking Chinese?

Plus - At one time, Korea was under strict Chinese rule, so it is NOT a stretch that some Koreans might actually speak Chinese. Know your history before you complain.

[–] oxblood 16 years ago

Well said. And who's to say her character didn't grow up in a chinese environment. People of all ethnicities speak languages from nationalities other than their own. Plus most importantly here, most non-asians and the core audience for this movie really wouldn't know the difference anyway so it doesn't matter.

[–] danmax 16 years ago

Come on. It was ver realistic. My Filipino manucurist is just like that. They got it right on. She even speaks chinese like that.

Way to go, Lamarre Jean-Claude!

[–] cheddar96 15 years ago

"I know theres a stereotype of Koreans owning all the Nail businesses and thats fine if they wanna send that up. So why get a Chinese actress?"

You are also stereotyping which makes you no different from the writers and director.

FYI, she's not Korean in the movie, she speaks Cantonese and suggested to use her "chinese-mace" to keep the Bennie's thug knocked out before they cross-dressed him.

[–] mcmgm 14 years ago

Ming was hilarious. That's all I really cared about.

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