bossymarmalade: frank pembleton (homicide sweet homicide)
miss maggie ([personal profile] bossymarmalade) wrote 2010-03-18 06:47 pm (UTC)

Seriously, right? I felt like having her subtitled in what could be her mother tongue -- in her two seconds of screentime -- went more along the lines of normalizing non-Anglo USians rather than exotifying them. I mean, okay, let's break it down: young woman in US diner, wearing Western clothes, getting hit on by jerk. Nothing "exotic" there, nothing that a Taylor Swift lookalike couldn't have done. So then this archetypal USian character happens to be Japanese, and happens to think in Japanese. Where's the problem?!?

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