rezwell

Hi Gene, I would like to know your what was your interpretation of Chin-Kee's purpose in American Born Chinese.

While I understand it is bad to whitewash your ethnic identity, I do not know understand how Chin-Kee solves that problem.

He embarrasses Jin by humiliating him in front of his peers by perpetuating obviously negative stereotypes. Social alienation is not an easy experience to deal with, and having a relative make that worse would be painful.

Is Chin-Kee suppose to force Jin to accept his ethnic heritage? Why should he be forced to accept it through such a negative way? Being humiliated and mocked by association into acceptance? This seems an odd way to force someone to accept their ethnic heritage.

I'm pretty sure it would have been better character development to accept your ethnic heritage through understanding what sacrifice and resilience it would take to live in America. Or you can be American without having to be White. Or that there are awesome things about Chinese culture that Jin wouldn't have realised.

Instead, the Monkey King embarrasses him into violence in order to accept his ethnic identity. He says he should have "realized how good it was to be a monkey", but he just showed Jin negative stereotypes. That's a really odd message to me.

Please clarify.

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