So, let me hack this Asian Trophy Wife thing to death.
Firstly, this article is just poorly written. The author, Ying Chu, pulls out quote after quote about random facts about Asians but doesn't really tie them in to anything truly meaningful. I get it, I get it: this man says there are Asian women who are victims to "Yellow Fever" and don't even know it. Taiwanese kids are really top-notch at math. Lots of loose ends of facts that don't culminate to much.
Maybe she's trying to say that Asian girls should be proud that we're now being coveted as a commodity?
Now no longer are Asian girls labeled as Suzie Wongs (I did happen to read The World of Suzie Wong when I was in Taiwan and Hong Kong this past winter. Your basic story about a Cantonese girl who works as a prostitute and a Western man who falls in love with her. I actually thought she was really naive and vacuous, but what can you expect from that type of girl from that type of time period?), but, rather, we Asian girls who have white boyfriends can be labeled as Soon-Yis.
Even though Chu herself is an Asian woman, she fails to acknowledge the differences between each Asian ethnicity and, thus, varied socio-economic-historic backgrounds that have led to the rise of such Suzie Wongs and Miss Saigons.
Chu notes that maybe it's "globalization" that has increased the appeal of Asian girls because Malcolm Gladwell notes that Asian kids have a strong work ethic and thus, Taiwanese kids are the best in math in world. She doesn't make sense. Is globalization achieved by way of getting yourself a smart Asian girl? Sounds more like imperialization to me.
In a nutshell, I think this article boasts that:
- Asian women are a commodity that's very hot/chic to own,
- Asian women are stupid because "Asian women dating white men may never really know if it's a fetish thing."
- You should be wary of a white man with an Asian woman because he's probably just got a fetish and she's probably from a foreign land,
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