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I’m going to push back on this. It’s not that ethnicity is “secondary” in #AlwaysBeMyMaybe. That’s like saying oxygen is secondary to human life. When you‘re immersed in something—when you breathe it and are sustained by it—you don’t need to forefront it.
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The characters in #AlwaysBeMyMaybe are Asian American through and through. They are culturally suffused by it. They eat it, they cook it, they sing it, they love it. It’s so normal it’s invisible. You forget you’re watching Asian American characters in an Asian American world.
And that is the same alchemy every Asian American who grew up watching FRIENDS experienced. An all-white New York? Not weird! Totally normal!
That’s the subtle way centricity reinforces supremacy. And why works like #AlwaysBeMyMaybe that are normatively inclusive are so vital.
That’s the subtle way centricity reinforces supremacy. And why works like #AlwaysBeMyMaybe that are normatively inclusive are so vital.
