Awkwafina

[Anonymous]

Of course she doesn’t speak that way all the time. My friend who is Dominican and grew up in the Bronx speaks the same way but also code switches.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:is this no talent's 15 minutes up, yet?

I thought she was hilarious in ‘Crazy Rich Asians’.

DP. I also liked her in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

+1. She’s just really fun to watch. I hope we get more of her in the next Shang-Chi movie.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She’s from Queen’s. How else is she “supposed” to speak? If her parents are immigrants she learned English from her friends! This is so dumb and frankly racist against Asians.

It's also racist to assume her immigrant parents were incapable of influencing how she speaks English.

People generally pick up the accent/coloquialisms of the people they are surrounded by, PP. I'm going to tell you something that will BLOW YOUR MIND. My Indian-born sister was raised in the Midwest and married a German man of German and Ghanaian descent. They live in England. Their 1/2 Indian, 1/4 German, 1/2 Ghanian child HAS A BRITISH ACCENT.

WHAT ACCENT EXACTLY DO YOU WANT MY NIECES TO BE SPEAKING IN??????

But that's not Awkwafina's situation. She only speaks that way in certain situations, and it is very exaggerated.

This person gets it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She’s from Queen’s. How else is she “supposed” to speak? If her parents are immigrants she learned English from her friends! This is so dumb and frankly racist against Asians.

It's also racist to assume her immigrant parents were incapable of influencing how she speaks English.

This sneer was clearly written by a person who has no idea about the lived experience of children of immigrants in America.

Nope, married to one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s from Queen’s. How else is she “supposed” to speak? If her parents are immigrants she learned English from her friends! This is so dumb and frankly racist against Asians.

It's also racist to assume her immigrant parents were incapable of influencing how she speaks English.

People generally pick up the accent/coloquialisms of the people they are surrounded by, PP. I'm going to tell you something that will BLOW YOUR MIND. My Indian-born sister was raised in the Midwest and married a German man of German and Ghanaian descent. They live in England. Their 1/2 Indian, 1/4 German, 1/2 Ghanian child HAS A BRITISH ACCENT.

WHAT ACCENT EXACTLY DO YOU WANT MY NIECES TO BE SPEAKING IN??????

Hopefully not a yelling one like you. Calm down, Karen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:She’s from Queen’s. How else is she “supposed” to speak? If her parents are immigrants she learned English from her friends! This is so dumb and frankly racist against Asians.

It's also racist to assume her immigrant parents were incapable of influencing how she speaks English.

When you are young, you are more influenced by your peers in your speech, not your parents, especially if they worked a lot and wasn't home that much.

-child of Asian immigrant parents who did not influence how I spoke.

A friend of mine is from the UK. Friend has two siblings, and they all speak with a different British accent because of where they went to college and settled down.

Nah, by college your way of speaking, especially accents, is set.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:is this no talent's 15 minutes up, yet?

I thought she was hilarious in ‘Crazy Rich Asians’.

She was the worst part of that movie.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s from Queen’s. How else is she “supposed” to speak? If her parents are immigrants she learned English from her friends! This is so dumb and frankly racist against Asians.

It's also racist to assume her immigrant parents were incapable of influencing how she speaks English.

This sneer was clearly written by a person who has no idea about the lived experience of children of immigrants in America.

Nope, married to one.

Her accent is real. Her mom died when she was a toddler so she was sent to be raised by her dad’s parents. They ran a Chinese restaurant but not one that served other Chinese, one that served Americanized Chinese food to black and white working class people in NYC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hate it when white people try to be divisive when it comes to BIPOC.
They know we are stronger together so they try to get us distracted and fight each other

I doubt a white person started this thread. Blacks and Asians need to chill on hating on each other.

I doubt it wasn’t a white person.

Let’s just agree that if it were a black or an asian person who started it, it’s still a white person’s fault. Deal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s interesting, if you watch interviews she’s done (at least the ones I found), she doesn’t have that accent at all. She also said she got her nickname because as a teen she needed a dumb hip hop name. It sounds like this is a persona she adopted to be funny, and not, e.g., how she talked on a regular basis. Which, might be offensive or not, depending on who you ask….

It's racist to think that Asian women can't make hip hop music, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s from Queen’s. How else is she “supposed” to speak? If her parents are immigrants she learned English from her friends! This is so dumb and frankly racist against Asians.

It's also racist to assume her immigrant parents were incapable of influencing how she speaks English.

People generally pick up the accent/coloquialisms of the people they are surrounded by, PP. I'm going to tell you something that will BLOW YOUR MIND. My Indian-born sister was raised in the Midwest and married a German man of German and Ghanaian descent. They live in England. Their 1/2 Indian, 1/4 German, 1/2 Ghanian child HAS A BRITISH ACCENT.

WHAT ACCENT EXACTLY DO YOU WANT MY NIECES TO BE SPEAKING IN??????

Hopefully not a yelling one like you. Calm down, Karen.

Oh, okay, let me listen to the nysogenistic a-hole who uses a random female name as an insult when it doesn't even make sense. Stop being so stupid, literally everything you've posted on here makes you sound crazier, and crazier, and crazier. Chill out psycho freak.

<3

[Anonymous]

LOL, that typo is fantastic!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The name Awkwafina has nothing to do with African Americans... huh? It's very clearly a play on "Aquafina".

Um clearly she’s speaking with a blaccent and using awkwafina as a kind of stolen, fake name. Are you serious in that you can’t see that? Remember “Booty Call” movie and Vivica A Fox’s name was “listernine”? Ever heard of dr marijuana Pepsi? Ever seen Martin where Shaniqua is the neighbor? Shan nay nay on In Living Color?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The name Awkwafina has nothing to do with African Americans... huh? It's very clearly a play on "Aquafina".

Um clearly she’s speaking with a blaccent and using awkwafina as a kind of stolen, fake name. Are you serious in that you can’t see that? Remember “Booty Call” movie and Vivica A Fox’s name was “listernine”? Ever heard of dr marijuana Pepsi? Ever seen Martin where Shaniqua is the neighbor? Shan nay nay on In Living Color?

The whitesplaining runs deep here. It’s pretty bizarre to see someone flinging out the names of films that are decades old to try to make a point.

Here’s another point, and possibly an alternate reality for you, PP: Some of us reading this and commenting here are actual Black people. At least one of us is telling at least one of you that you’re wrong. Nuances and actual experiences count for more than ancient films and tv programs aimed at entertaining white audiences. You too can make up a name if you want to, and it will have nothing to do with African Americans or our cultures.


Next up, I’ll explain how Friends and Sex In the City exemplify the totality of white American culture. (Sarcastic eye roll)

[Anonymous]

She was also good as the dragon voice in that cartoon movie.