Lol~ We got the dramatic music while she was riding her horse and letting her hair loose 😂 But yeah, the timing of the reveals and challenging the system really didn't land well and felt like it lost the greater message.

Exactly! In this one she also told the soldiers she would like to die when she revealed herself (as they pardoned her)... The whole point of going to the war was so everyone would live, obviously including herself. She's literally upholding the system in a more strict manner than the system itself does, and doing so to her own detriment. It's terrible

@@paunaic5460 Fits in well with Chinese government policy to support the people in power

Yeah, in the original wasn't she in genuine danger of execution for impersonation of a soldier?

The Captain had such a... small reaction. In the original it was horrifying, in the new movie idk if they try to make the villains self righteous or what but they are so damn chill about big deal stuff. The rich, white horse guy that calls Aladdin a Street Rat... it's a through away line that's supposed to discourage the protagonist instead of a personal insult that makes him feels worthless. In Mulan, her soldier friends were shocked and we all thought she would get executed. In the 2020 Mulan.... ugh.

🙌🙌🙌 preach. So sick of their soulless remakes

Definitely sick of those. Disney movies somehow lost their magic :/ Okay maybe not with things like UP, Wall-E, Moana or Frozen - but those remakes really do lack that ...

@@LunaBianca1805 I'll generally put those in the box of "Pixar", which tend to be great films

@@DrJonTam Oh, right. I forgot Disney swallowed those up, too. Those guys working for Pixar probably worked on most of those 3D movies, too, even though some of the movies aren't even listed as Pixar productions. At least most of those still retain a bit of that old-school Disney magic....

LunaBianca1805 Yep, totally. Actually, Disney outsources a lot of their animation and then have companies sign NDAs. The bigger ones get to keep an identity like Lucasfilms, Pixar, Marvel, etc.

Yep. There were probably some artistic decisions that were made to appeal to the Chinese market (e.g. not showing how the Chinese military was wrecked) to pass Chinese censorship. Those laws have always been soul-sucking.

Isn't that the case for every unsuccessful movie? The studio makes it to appeal to a certain market or markets but if it doesn't, it flops. Or are you just pissed that there's now more than one market that studios will try to appeal to?

yeme tbh not really pissed.... just smh? that would be true if they didn’t choke on a 23 million box office in China and then the Chinese govt decides to censor it and not allow press coverage.

yeme it’s one thing to try to appeal to a different market and do it well, it’s another thing to appeal to a different market only to tick off the target audience you were trying to appeal to.

In Chosen One, main character has no say in what he will do. Mulan makes all decisions about her own life on her own. That is the point of emotionless face. You hide your emotions, so people don't know, what emotional appeal works on you, and cannot influence your decisions. Same with high morals. Pure individualism (in decision making) requires, that you make no mistakes, that people can call you out on. And if you have some insufficiencies, you have to be one, who points them out (it was her decision to show, that she is woman), so it cannot be used against you. Other people like that can see what you are doing though (witch), and point out, if there is something, that you still didn't let go (yes, Elsa, Rey and Kylo are similar, and all of them have to "Let it go"), in order for you to be in full control of your life, and not others. She had the goal of saving her father, and winning a war. Tradition was in her way of saving her father. And without her revealing, that she is woman on her own (it could happen at any time, that is, why she is always stressed), she wouldn't be trusted, and able to save the emperor. The movie makes sense, it just doesn't explain properly its motivations, because it is presumed, that people will have this knowledge. Just like everybody else, it presumes, that all the other people are just like them, and have the same philosophy, that doesn't need to be explained. And she shows emotions. A lot. But you have to know what to look for. Honghui is not the same, but is a kindred spirit, so he feels connection, and he keeps trying to crack her open.

Yep, and to my point is even if you bring a Chinese person on an American team, good luck having those ideas take off.

Well, Coco is an overrated mess, but Moana is pretty good!!

@@zoazede2098 Coco is awesome! What do you mean by "overrated?"

@@zoazede2098 I dunno.... my eyes got humid in that last scene 😭... and "Remember me" is catchy

@@bandotaku i mean that people talked about the movie like if it was the last desert's coca cola, but it's a very bad written cliché, and the twisted villain is forced as hell, and Imelda (the real villain in this movie) never get what she deserves!!! They where afraid of making a woman the villain I guess, because that twist with De la Cruz was sickeningly bad! And unnecessary, and makes no sense!! How he make a whole musical career with just 5 overused songs???? I don't know if that happens in the USA, but in Latino América that won't happen

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Mirus 😂 “chi” is easier pronounce for Americans. They’ll butcher “Qi” by pronouncing it Ki or something

@@DrJonTam Ah, I didn't think of that one. They do tend to butcher asian names, and they're excused... i suppose. Still, chi is... soooo different to what qi is when one takes up studying the language.

Mirus well... chi is the proper romanization with wade-giles and Qi is for pinyin, so it’s not unheard of

@@DrJonTam as a non Asian, I respect "Qi". But Chinese uses characters anyway not letters. So it may not really matter but who knows lol

It's like the second coming of Thanos 😂

I was waiting for her to unlock her falcon transformation skills like Gong Li

What's worse is: 1. The director stated in an interview "Mulan is not a superhero" 2. Even superheros such as Spider-Man have journeys where conflicts develop their character for the better

@@marcohidalgo1101 I literally lol'd at your 2nd point. That's so true.

When she was made to suppress her powers, it immediately reminded me of Captain Marvel. And when she chose to be "true to herself", unleashed her powers, and solved the entire problem single-handedly- yeah I've totally seen this before. It's like nearly every "strong female character" in Hollywood in recent years has to follow pretty much the same formula.

@@doryfishie2 Makes me seriously miss good 'ol lady boss Sigourney Weaver Ripley storylines

Yep~ it's interesting to note that none of them are solely Chinese nationals and they all have foreign residence of some kind

In a way, that's more racist than anything... what were they thinking, saying, "Hey! The meme presence of a vaguely Chinese looking actor's gonna totally make our movie automatically good! Look how woke we are!"... money blinds, I suppose.

It would've been super interesting if they'd just cast chinese actors AND writers and done the whole thing in chinese with subtitles. I can order food in China and ask for directions and talk about our family's relationship regarding our dog (thanks to weird chinese lessons) and would'nt understand a word, but it would be an amazing aproach. A lot of movies are only in one language and have subtitles, that can actually work.

@@Grishhak I second this. Watching Bollywood movies and understand them by reading subtitles don’t stop many from around the world to enjoy those movies. For one, these kind of movies got layers and richer in culture, language, etc, that you are really transported into their world and BELIEVE the stories that they are telling. Not everything is about western interpretations and only told thru their lenses.

@@Grishhak yah Chinese with English subtitles I agree

Great point!

Seriously... how am I supposed to work with this as a parent...

@@DrJonTam "You need to find what your power is and how to help those around you with it". Think of it like MLP cutie marks.

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I seriously wonder what's with the white obsession with Asian honor... it's like Asians can't live without their honor? "I must restore my honor" - A Certain Banished Asian Prince

Honestly, you'd think we all operate under Bushido 🙄 OH wait, you mean they aren't they all the same? Completely doing whatever to another culture and claiming it as authentic. I was under the impression that they understood that blatant white-washing is a no no in today's social handbook. You summed it up so perfectly: Asian movie for white people

@@raincandy3 Nah, not even white people. This is Disney believing they have easy cash grabs. Even we white people hate the film.

It's a Haro from Gundam 🤓

@@DrJonTam OMG I REMEMBER NOW NON-KILLER KIRA ATHRUN ZALA

@@DrJonTam it was soooooo familiar xD

Haha~ yep! It’s actually in all the gundam shows as sort of their cute mascot

@@DrJonTam hmmm I don't remember it in my favorite Gundam series. G Gundam xD I actually don't know how to spell out the main protagonist's name. Google is so useful. Lol

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Rey was not nearly as bad though. And the 3rd movie actualy gave us explenations so she is no longer a mary sue. the second movie mostly created that problem, third movie fixed that (she also lost a fight in the 3rd movie). People can diss Rey all they want but she still felt like an actual character to me (that yes could and should have been written better, but she is not nearly as bad as people make her out to be.) This Mulan is much MUCH worse. In every single way. Rey had reasons for her powers, and her powers made sense to the context of her story. Mulans powers make 0 sense to the context of HER story. Rey had much more personality and life to her. Mulan was wooden all the way trough. Rey had a real character arc, Mulan really didn't. Etc. I love Rey, I love Captain Marvell. Maybe because I grew up in a time where female super hero's could not just be the cool op main character then males could be. And now female leads are becomming more commen and people complain when they are just OP instead of more devolped but like it's ok to have a few OP female kick ass characters just for the sake of them being kick ass because again, male main characters had this all the time withoud nearly as much ''gary stu'' complaints flying around so I feel like there are double standards here. Rey and Marvel can work as role models still, they do. Because both movies with these ladies do show things worth rooting for. At least they did to me and i feel the hate (not the critism) is not justified there. Mulan life action is a whole different ball game where everything is bland and meaningles. More so because Mulan is not the place to have a kick ass ladie for the sake of having a cool movie with a kick ass ladie as the main character. Mulan is not that kind of story and desserved much more attention. I would have loved a life action of the animated movie done right because I loved how the message was that she failed as a ''perfect women'' and failed as a ''perfect man'' and thrived as herself. I'm aware thats not the actual focus of the original poem but honestly i feel the story is stronger for it. I'm never a fan of ''culture'' when said culture is sexist or racist or otherwise negative to a group of people by default and many older cultures are not friendly to women and their roles in life. That being said if they had gone the more ''realistic'' route of her just trying to save her dad even with her doing just fine in that bride part purely for love of her dad, and she succeeded in the same ways as in the animated movie (smarts not magic) I could have loved it as it's own thing. I'm cool with disney doing something different from their animated movies. But if you go different do it right. This Mulan was neither what classic movie nostalgics wanted, nor what those who would have loved a more realistic take on it ( a war action drama withoud any sort of magics or witches and what not) wanted. How could they mess up so bad I will never understand. Everyone on the planet seems to understand making Mulan have powers is a horrible idea and undermines the meaning of either the poem or the animated movie.. Like come on disney.. do better.

@@amberanime "go different then do it right" amen!!

I wasn't hurt by it or anything... it was just all sorts of wtfs for a bad movie 😂

I've already been telling her that since forever 👍

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Also good point about the accents

Lloyd Tsui as a linguist I’m sure you picked it up

@@DrJonTam this killed me

FreekyPower hold on, I’m reflecting on my honor right now

Thank you 😊

@@DrJonTam your welcome

i watched the 2009 one a week ago

I love Sakura. One of my favorite Japanese names

@@lessismore8533 mine too!! I love the name and the tree

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🤔.... yeah, I don't know if that's a defense or offense either. It's definitely an interesting fact though!

The general consensus among the Chinese when Liu was casted was a big meh. I don't think there's a Chinese person out there who genuinely thinks that Liu Yifei is known for her acting chops. She has always been known to be a vase, and most of her roles in the past decade or so reflect that. She speaks English, is American, and has connections. That's probably the main reasons why she won the role.

Her stunt double might be a better cast xD

Chi = The Force

@@DrJonTam When you write it like that, it makes me think of Star Wars... which come to think of it hasn't had such good reviews with a lot of the new ones too. Is it because Disney owns Star Wars too? 🤣

I'm seeing a common theme here. 🤔

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Right?!???

They'd have to have someone write a script in Mandarin first of all. Then they'd have to translate it. Would they be using modern conversational Mandarin? Or would they make it fit the era and have them use ancient Mandarin with the more poetic sort of dialogue you would tend to observe in period dramas? Considering how much they butchered this, I don't think it's a stretch to think that they would have butchered the Chinese dialogue regardless if it was modern or ancient Mandarin. In any case, it's additional costs, we wouldn't want them to ruin their profit margins, poor Disney.

@@doryfishie2 Maybe it should had been recorded as a normal Chinese film, and then dubbed to English (or add subtitles)

@@doryfishie2 That is something Chinese writers do as a job all the time. Not so complicated. There are hundreds of dramas and movies set in ancient China. (And some are very good). Hiring local writers, translators and actual experts on Chinese culture would hardly have been significantly more expensive than sending Americans to Europe and around China researching something many Chinese people could have told them right of the bat

@@doryfishie2 well they spent 200 million bucks on this movie so I dont see why they didn't do that... smh

Totally agree the growth and development was super lacklustre.

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Love anthro~ who’s your favourite anthropologist?

@@DrJonTam I really like the works of David Graeber (R.I.P 😔) and Daniel Miller. Both are very good, but I more so lean towards Miller nowadays, since he's done exceptional research on the consequences of consumption (materialism), as well as digital anthropology (social media). But Graeber's works are exceptional as well with societal issues. I've yet to read his book "Bullshit Jobs" which sounds very interesting. Miller's works really connects with me since I'm trying to be a more ethical consumer (not buying from fast fashion but rather ethically made sources, only buy what I need, etc.) and deleting some of my social media accounts since I've realised it's ruining my mental health (and many others). How about yours? I'm only in my second year in my bachelors degree and am interested if you know more anthropologists that I have not heard of yet 😀

@@mnicole96 I'm honestly a sociologist by training so the people I follow are more from before there was a clear delineation between sociology and anthropology. I love the classical anthropology because that was back when they could do research fast and loose without all the ethics restrictions. Makes for much more interesting findings don't you think?

Ah ok I understand. By classic anthropology, do you mean the early to mid 1900's? And sorry in advance if my English sounds kind of confusing, it's not my first language lol. I do understand where you're coming from concerning the ethics restrictions, without those we wouldn't have interesting findings that we study about today. It still kinda breaks my heart that there were a lot of anthropologists at the time that worked under colonization organizations to be able to study about other societies, then report their findings back to their superior for (a lot of the times) political advantages. And consequently, some countries to this day still suffer from neo-colonization. I dunno, I might have a softer spot for these since I'm from the Philippines (but was born in Iceland and still live there), and our history is having been colonized by both Spain (lasted about 300 years) and the U.S (48 years). And Philippines still suffers from neo-colonization to this day, a similar pattern with other countries as well.

María Nicole Zanoria Baldelovar Yep, anthropology does have a tainted history and neo-colonialism was a global problem at the time with ramifications to this day. I remind myself that the only way to look is forward.

Why do you think that’s the case?

Yep, it really had potential but they choked

No there was no witch. It's a Disney motif.

Well in all fairness Po in Kungfu Panda was a "chosen one" as the dragon warrior but the writers still existed everything better. Plus his story wasn't Mulans story. We all know Mulan 98 relied on determination hard work and she and Pi had that in common

I didn’t really care for Li Shang actually... the dealbreaker for me was Mushu

they really said "Fuck you and fuck your bi representation" huh

@@DrJonTam omg!! I love Mushu too! Nice to see a Chinese person who doesn't view him as disrespectful

Hmm... I think Lion King wins it for me for the worst live action.

@@DrJonTam at least the Lion King has songs, so it's not a complete journey of boredom

@@Yorancy I honestly don't even remember them having songs 😅

@@DrJonTam fair enough 😂

maleficent's not bad too, i think.

Yep, this thread has been pretty entertaining

@@DrJonTam more entertaining than the film

Choco Robba 👍 I’m super polite too in mandarin and speak much slower so I come across as a very serious person... Kind of like your Japanese. Makes sense since 2nd language learners learn it the formal way

Yep... It’s protagonist being human and somewhat flawed that makes them relatable

Thanks Mark! That means a lot!

@@DrJonTam Anytime, Dr Jon!

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They did have some Australian and Kiwi Asians in the movie. But you're right none of the main lead roles were given to younger ABCs (or at least none that I'm aware of).

Agreed

You weren't the only one! 😂 But yes, I flipped the two. They were actually best friends and were in the same writing group when they overlapped in Oxford so they did exchange ideas between LOTR and Narnia!

I mean.... he tugged some cloths with his wushu???

Yep... I speak like a prof in english and like a high schooler in Cantonese (cuz that's the limit of my vocab)

Yeah! Totally feel like this Mulan was simply her being willing to uncap her superpowers and then she kicks butt rather than actually growing. Thanks! These curtains costed like $10 20 years ago in Shenzhen.

@@DrJonTam 😊It looks like seal script on it, that's what drew my eyes to ^^' Always had a big love for more picturesque writing systems, like Chinese or Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs - as long as those signs don't deviate too much from those core pictograms, my mind seems to have am easier time remembering those ;)

LunaBianca1805 yep, definitely looks like seal script

There is a 2009 live-action Chinese version of Mulan you might be interested in. :)

Marco Hidalgo that was my rec at the end of the video 😊

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Sakichi Ishida ❤️❤️❤️ not many people are able to name it! 😊

mag steel yep, it really is that simple. Criticizing bad police ethics doesn’t mean you hate China or anti-American or whatever. Really gotta take one matter at a time.

Yep, Universal Century Gundam all the way 🦾

Yep, the localization efforts were solid back then. I heard good things about the animated mandarin version as well but haven't actually watched it

I actually really liked him in the live-action, he was pretty much the only one that showed any character development.

Thanks! Haha... I've actually been mulling big 5 personality breakdown for the longest time and actually plan to do some. Who would you be interested for me to break down?

@@DrJonTam ooo.. good question. I saw you talking about Gundam and anime in another thread so My Hero might be a really fun place to start. There's so many personalities that are genuinely given such interesting depth over the seasons that I can't think of anything else to suggest. lol

@@DrJonTam I'm not a KZfaq expert but here's what I would suggest. Maybe try another video or two of characters you would be really interested in talking about. If you get a good response maybe consider making another pop culture dedicated Channel so you still help people on this one. ( I haven't watched your other videos yet but I'm very interested and that was my assumption.) I can't guarantee there's an audience for it but I strongly feel there would be. There's a whole genre of movie breakdowns with an educational spin. And honestly I can't think of any that focus on real psychology or sociology. Personally, I learned most of this stuff from Jordan Peterson videos on KZfaq. He's a controversial figure, but a very popular one. It's very possible that there is a large amount of people who have heard a lot of these words before but don't really know what they mean.

Tory Evans yep... I’m thinking of using case studies for leadership and lessons we can glean for our careers so it stays helpful and entertaining. Haven’t watch my hero yet... but thinking about doing demon slayer 😂

@@DrJonTam oh leadership!, ok.. Well the Picard would be perfect. Maybe a little too easy.. Any Star Trek Captain really. That new Star Trek cartoon might also have some interesting examples. Might even fit your channel better. It's called Lower decks and it's about the lower enlisted clashing with the career officers. I think..

Yep, I think Ant Wu who replied to my pin comment dropped a link on his/her channel. It's on my to-watch list

Just watched it. Not good. Choppy flow, filled with propaganda undertones, lots of parts didn’t make sense, super weird ending, about the same level as Disney’s Mulan.

​@@DrJonTam The one thing that none of the adaptations really get right is the power dynamic. Northern Wei was a military juggernaut, and in the poem Mulan answered the Khan's conscription call to go hunt the barbarians north of the great wall for thousands of miles all over Central Asia. Historically, the Rourans were never a credible threat to Northern Wei, as they didn't have the numbers to do much more than raid. Taiwu Khan's campaign against them lasted a decade because they would usually flee and avoid direct battle. Where major fighting occurred every few years, it was invariably one-sided. The power dynamic honestly resembled that of the US and the Great Plains Indians, though it must be said, the Rouran Khaganate committed ample acts treachery to earn Taiwu's ire. It was a war of cat and mouse across the north Asian steppe, not one where scrappy peasants defending their homeland against nomad hordes. That is the nature of empire, I suppose. Now Northern Wei's battles against Liu Song, that was some truly apocalyptic stuff. Taiwu wanted to avoid that confrontation at all costs, but war nonetheless came to him.

megakedar Yep! Historically, any time the northern steppes united, they became a threat, like the Jurchens, Mongols, and the Manchurians.

@@DrJonTam Ironically, the Chinese themselves have sometimes created these threats through their interventions, like how the Song betrayed their allies in Liao to invite the Jurchens (Jin) to take over the north, only then to ally with the Mongols to destroy the Jurchens. And then you know what happened next. There's probably a statement here about the illusion of being able to control chaos.

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Glad you enjoyed it Jenny!

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Totally agree. That's the difference maker

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It’s called a Haro from the Gundam mecha series 😊

I would agree that the animated Mulan was much more introverted too.

Yes, I've seen her exude a lot more charm and personality in other films. I was making the point her personality in Mulan was very bland and the chi/qi bit connects much better with the wuxia genre so I tied them together. I wasn't suggesting for the live action to follow the comedic cartoon version, but rather made the point that the cartoon genre has different affordances in terms of expression and hyperbole. It definitely would be super cringe if live action tried to be comedic like the cartoon. But yes, I agree the film's direction is definitely set by the off-screen team, and I think there's a cultural disconnect or the vision that just fell flat after the execution.

@@DrJonTam Aye. I don't think any actor or actresses could have brought life to this film. The script was just so... crap. The few scenes Donnie Yen was in, you could see moments where he just took charge, but they were too few and in between. The director failed all the actors, failed the production staff, and failed us all. DISHONOUR!

1Invinc yep, the film and script direction was dead

@@1Invinc I agree, all the actors did a great job nonetheless, in the narrow confinement of a disney script. However I wouldn't say its a failure, to Disney standards its pretty okay and it delivers. To chinese standards its nowhere near up to par.

@@DrJonTam Thanx for your Cantonese - CANTONESE FOREVER ! IF you get the change, watch the 2009 Mulan with Vicki Zhao Wei, a FAR SUPERIOR ACTRESS; for me this is the DEFINITIVE Mulan. This version was directed by Hong Kong's Jingle Ma.

I'd characterize it more like Chinese Frozen in terms of the character development. The fighting and cinematography was on point imho.

@@DrJonTam If Disney was looking for an Oscar stamped director, they could have hired Ang Lee. Life of Pi had four Oscars and seventy-eight other awards. Lee might have produced a realistic Mulan version, and supervised the script process and other departments. So, Niki Caro had four Oscars! LOL For grand scale epic, there was also Director Zhang Yimou, who orchestrated the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics opening and closing ceremonies. Disney wanted a western director and other production department heads who could communicate with them without a translator.

SH QA sigh... it is what it is... Disney remakes and Star Wars have been a disappointment for a while

@@shqa574 They made their own bed so now they gon' lie in it

My Cantonese is equivalent to that of Stephen Chow or ancient Chinese from wuxia. There is no middle ground 😂

You mean you weren't impressed with Jet Li pulling bedsheets? 😂

Glad you liked it!!

Sorry man, it’s been taken down already. Disney+ is pretty cheap though... and the MCU series aren’t bad so far

🙌🙌🙌 Can't just bash~ gotta give alternatives and hope 🤔

Great point 💪

Yep, at least the actors/actresses can express themselves comfortably

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Odd Drummer Gaming Fair enough! It was beautiful cinematography and definitely a high quality production! It’s just even if a song has the best musicians, arrangement, recording gear and mixing, if the performance is bad then nothing can fix it.

Yep, that’s precisely my experience as well.

Hey, fair enough you feel insulted. But to my point, true cultural brokers who can fluently jump between the East and West are super rare (not that they don't exist). Most ABCs raised before the 2000s simply cannot be cultural brokers because of the social conditions at the time (pre-Internet, absence of Asian media for learning, migration settlement patterns, demographic characteristics of first generation migrants in the 70s-90s boom, China was still weak and closed, etc.). Bottom line is it's not difficult for an American who does a bit of Asian studies in college to know more about Medieval China than the average ABC. The whole identity struggle of ABCs who have travelled transnationally is well-documented by Andrea Louie's Chineseness Across Borders (2003) and my own doctoral thesis (2019) you can find here: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:847f54e7-fd1a-4910-846c-be1a61a31dce ... I'm really not pulling this out of my 🍑. That being said, ABCs and any other BCs raised post-2000 will be more culturally adept than pre-2000s and I expect the whole discourse to change within the next generation. Having cultural brokers will become the norm in the next decade or so.

@@DrJonTam that's fair, I didn't think of the pre 2000s to be honest as I myself was born post 2000, but I see your point. Thanks for the new information.

It's one thing to learn about Asian cultures from secondhand sources. It's another thing to know about and have experience with Chinese culture and Chinese identity, which is something a non-Chinese person can never have or learn, no matter how much they learn about Asian cultures. ABCs born pre-2000s might not be able to connect with Chinese people in China culturally, but they know what it is like to grow up being born Chinese and are more familiar with what American culture, businesses, and politics are like. The live-action Mulan movie should have had Chinese people (both ABCs and those from China) behind the scenes, not just in acting roles. ABCs can learn more about medieval China from secondhand sources while also using their experiences being Chinese to aid in the writing. (The average ABC is also more likely to have some knowledge of China's political climate than the average non-Chinese person.) Non-Chinese people (especially non-Asians) can look at as many secondhand sources as possible and still mess up because they do not know what it is like to be or grow up Chinese; perfect example being the Disney Mulan 2020 movie. Having Asians behind the scenes, even if they are ABCs, make a huge difference in how stories with Asian characters go. The 1998 Disney Mulan movie had Asian people both on-screen and behind the scenes. The 2020 Disney Mulan movie had Asian people on-screen but little to no Asian people behind the scenes. metro.uk/2020/03/15/disney-failed-mulan-white-behind-the-scenes-crew-12387356/

Yeah, I actually read that later and was surprised to find out Liu has so much overseas experience.

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yepyep~ I shared it as the best option at the end!

@@DrJonTam Oops! My bad. I clicked off about a minute from the end and so I missed it.

Moira Menzelli no worries! 😊

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LOL~ Disney's really gotta stop with these soulless remakes

Yep! Liu Yifei is Mandarin and Lau Yik Fei is Cantonese. I just figured I'd use both 🤷🏻‍♂️ sorry if it was confusing 😅

@@DrJonTam No no it's fine, just wanted to get rid of that bit of my ignorance, thanks for clearing it up.

Basically... Chinese Rey

Gonna make a video on that in the future for the corporate world 🐼

That may be true.

Honestly, it reminds me of Avatar: The Last Airbender and how Zuko gets reminded about his honor a million times throughout the show... or how the Last Samurai reminds Asians about their honor... or other preoccupation about Asian honor. Actually, brb, I need to check to make sure my honor is intact

Cool! Hope they still like it there despite the changes!