Its a Joke about a family living on the edge of poverty. The kids have to work in the business instead of doing their homework in a quiet place or go playing.
And the joke is not working on the level “were are all in this shit hole together”, this would be fine.
No it the arrogant “hey look at this poor kid living in this shit hole. Hahaha. Now bring me my food” level.
The racism is just the garnishment on top. Playing the cliches of people from asia.
I’ll repeat what someone already said, read it slow now:
Hole in the wall family owned Asian cuisine is typically way better than a large corporate Asian cuisine restaurant.
So the picture of a 13(?) year old kid inside a unpolished takeaway with the text “better done his homework” is a glorification of “family owned asian cuisine”?
I dunno. I think this would look different
You can often see the same picture in diferent ways.
A well excuted joke is playing the diferent bias and point of views.
I dont accuse the author to be a racist. Its think its just insensitive and unaware.
Probably my coment(s) are leading to some thoughts and some kind of reflection. And if the author in the end decides its still a good joke, fair enough. There a lot more shitty “comedians” out there. I wont mind.
You are assuming it’s a race thing at all. So you think this same photo where the restaurant was a family owned burger joint and the kid at the cash register was white that suddenly wouldn’t be racist? That makes you the racist. You clocked the race of the child and presumed a whole lot of information that was not given to you. How do you know this isn’t a summer job? How do you know the actual age of the kid? He could be 16 with a slower development. There’s so much that you are assuming based solely off of your experience around Asians and Asian restaurants.
Seriously, a really popular show out now is Bob’s Burgers, about a family who owns a burger restaurant and he absolutely loves making great burgers. And they’re white.
The idea is if it’s a small, family run restaurant, there’s a good chance those recipes are family recipes. So it’s gonna be good.
Also, I understood the homework thing to be about his age , not about his race. I might be wrong, though.
Yeah, its all a interpretation.
But the picture is either playing with this assumptions or is at least tolerating them.
If you want to do this joke without this … stale aftertaste(?), you have to set frame different
You’re the only one thinking the joke is about Asians. Which makes you the racist. That’s what I’m saying. The joke is about family owned restaurants and you could have it be any family of any race. You’re the one focusing so hard on their race. You’re the one with the issue with the race in this picture.
Read: you have a problem with the fact that there is an again child in this photo and would rather it be a non-Asian.
First of all: My main issue was the photographing of a kid without obvious consent. The racism, as I said in the first post, is only the “garnishment.”
But still, its there. On a sub line. And Im willing to believe that the author isnt aware of the possibilty to interpret it this way.
Its kinda nice, that you dont see this issue too. You have kinda “freed” yourself from this point of view.
But on the other hand, you should be aware, that some poeple, with diferent bias, see things different. And if a right wing author would have posted this online, you would’ve thought about the post diferent too, I assume.
I dont want to write a detailed analysis of the picture to frame out every issue in detail and combined and write every possible interprations down, but I try to summarize it.
In this picture, a Kid, read as an Asian originated 13 year old boy, is photograhed. Obviously without clear consent. This is humilating for the kid and you could see this as an act of showing off power to him.
He is quiet young and still has to work in the family bussines to keep it running. The family is very likely to be in need for customers, so he to needs to act as an servant and is unlikely to stand up for himself.
The kid looks kinda nerdy and fulffills this way the cliche of the dilligent Kid from an asian family.
The author isnt picturized, but the caption is in english and uses some kind of slang of the white majority for the offered food.
Or in short terms:
A white person in power is humilating a servant, looking like a cliche-asian-kid.
Its an assumption the picture is sugesting. A small, unpolished family bussines, where the kids have to work in after school to keep it running. If this business fails, the family usually fails. You have to work your arse off, to avert this. On daily basis, your whole live.
Ive grown up in such a family.
You can romanticize this, but in the end, you are living on the edge.
Its a Joke about a family living on the edge of poverty. The kids have to work in the business instead of doing their homework in a quiet place or go playing. And the joke is not working on the level “were are all in this shit hole together”, this would be fine. No it the arrogant “hey look at this poor kid living in this shit hole. Hahaha. Now bring me my food” level.
The racism is just the garnishment on top. Playing the cliches of people from asia.
Brother that’s more racist than the joke. You presumed everything based on your existing bias/prejudice.
Ok, so explain the joke to me. On what lvl is it supposed to work then?
Ah you’re simple, sorry I didn’t realize.
I’ll repeat what someone already said, read it slow now: Hole in the wall family owned Asian cuisine is typically way better than a large corporate Asian cuisine restaurant.
So the picture of a 13(?) year old kid inside a unpolished takeaway with the text “better done his homework” is a glorification of “family owned asian cuisine”? I dunno. I think this would look different
Admittedly I didn’t see the title. Just the caption in the image. Regardless, you seeing it different says more about you than anything else.
You can often see the same picture in diferent ways. A well excuted joke is playing the diferent bias and point of views. I dont accuse the author to be a racist. Its think its just insensitive and unaware. Probably my coment(s) are leading to some thoughts and some kind of reflection. And if the author in the end decides its still a good joke, fair enough. There a lot more shitty “comedians” out there. I wont mind.
Only racist thing here is your mind bruh
Playing jokes on racial cliches, even if the cliches are positive, are still racist
You are assuming it’s a race thing at all. So you think this same photo where the restaurant was a family owned burger joint and the kid at the cash register was white that suddenly wouldn’t be racist? That makes you the racist. You clocked the race of the child and presumed a whole lot of information that was not given to you. How do you know this isn’t a summer job? How do you know the actual age of the kid? He could be 16 with a slower development. There’s so much that you are assuming based solely off of your experience around Asians and Asian restaurants.
Seriously, a really popular show out now is Bob’s Burgers, about a family who owns a burger restaurant and he absolutely loves making great burgers. And they’re white.
The idea is if it’s a small, family run restaurant, there’s a good chance those recipes are family recipes. So it’s gonna be good.
Also, I understood the homework thing to be about his age , not about his race. I might be wrong, though.
Yeah, its all a interpretation. But the picture is either playing with this assumptions or is at least tolerating them. If you want to do this joke without this … stale aftertaste(?), you have to set frame different
You’re the only one thinking the joke is about Asians. Which makes you the racist. That’s what I’m saying. The joke is about family owned restaurants and you could have it be any family of any race. You’re the one focusing so hard on their race. You’re the one with the issue with the race in this picture.
Read: you have a problem with the fact that there is an again child in this photo and would rather it be a non-Asian.
Do you see the problem with that?
First of all: My main issue was the photographing of a kid without obvious consent. The racism, as I said in the first post, is only the “garnishment.”
But still, its there. On a sub line. And Im willing to believe that the author isnt aware of the possibilty to interpret it this way. Its kinda nice, that you dont see this issue too. You have kinda “freed” yourself from this point of view. But on the other hand, you should be aware, that some poeple, with diferent bias, see things different. And if a right wing author would have posted this online, you would’ve thought about the post diferent too, I assume.
I dont want to write a detailed analysis of the picture to frame out every issue in detail and combined and write every possible interprations down, but I try to summarize it.
In this picture, a Kid, read as an Asian originated 13 year old boy, is photograhed. Obviously without clear consent. This is humilating for the kid and you could see this as an act of showing off power to him. He is quiet young and still has to work in the family bussines to keep it running. The family is very likely to be in need for customers, so he to needs to act as an servant and is unlikely to stand up for himself. The kid looks kinda nerdy and fulffills this way the cliche of the dilligent Kid from an asian family. The author isnt picturized, but the caption is in english and uses some kind of slang of the white majority for the offered food.
Or in short terms: A white person in power is humilating a servant, looking like a cliche-asian-kid.
Do you see it now?
People don’t understand that.
Why do you think they’re on the edge of poverty? That’s the most racist part of your post, IMO.
Its an assumption the picture is sugesting. A small, unpolished family bussines, where the kids have to work in after school to keep it running. If this business fails, the family usually fails. You have to work your arse off, to avert this. On daily basis, your whole live. Ive grown up in such a family. You can romanticize this, but in the end, you are living on the edge.