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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This movie is just not relatable to 89% of America.  Not sure what all the fuss is about.  [/quote]
Does that mean that the majority of shows/movie on tv/theatre aren't relatable to me, an Asian American since they are 89% white cast?

I loved the Cosby show growing up, as I did Friends and Seinfeld.  I also happen to love Jane Austen. How was I ever able to relate to some of those stories from over a hundred years ago, from a different culture/race?

Some people definitely have a closed mind.[/quote]

The most unrelatable part is the extreme wealth.  It could have been crazy rich Bolivians, crazy rich Nigerians or crazy rich Russians. A romantic comedy about a small circle of billionaires, how they spend and how they live isn't groundbreaking cinema.[/quote]

I think this is a point that escapes most white people (I am a white woman), but the fact that a completely normal movie is featuring a cast of all asian people IS actually groundbreaking. It isn't a story about China really, it isn't Memoirs of a Geisha or some think piece on a part of asian culture or a historial moment. It is a story that is completely known and funny and relateable and not that special, but it's asian poeple instead of white people.

We take for granted that all the mundane stories, all the rom coms and super hero movies are white people. They HAVE diversity, but they are usually majority white, the maine characters white etc. Sure this is changing but slowly. And realistically they are white males.

The most understandable way to put it for me is like, will anyone stop giving Adam Sandler or Michael Bay money to make more movies? They both make terrible movies that frequently bomb. Bay is more profitable but he's terrible. But bomb after bomb after bomb people will give them money because they aren't seen as 'risky'. Comparitively, Ocean's 8 was seen as a very risky movie for studios to invest in because it starred women. That is a direct result of the 'normal' caper movie being men, mostly white men. The more totally normal and mundane movies there are out there with diverse casts (gender and race) the better. There will be a day (I hope) when a movie like Crazy Rich Asians is non remarkable. But it isn't today, because tell me the last Rom Com you saw other than this where the lead character isn't white. And after you google and find one from last year, do me a favor and count up the number of rom coms from last year and figure out what percentage featured a non white woman as the main love interest. Then try to find how many had a non white woman AND a non white man as the main characters. [/quote]

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