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While the video itself is clever and on-topic enough - demonstrating the way in which whiteness is generally immune from being othered, the comments section is of particular interest. Of course, the comments section of any YouTube video is a place best avoided, however, the overwhelming consensus is that the white man in the video has not done anything offensive, and the Asian woman is being aggressive for no reason, making an innocuous comment into a racial one because of a chip on her shoulder.

The criticism was such that they created a follow-up video reading the comments. The Post-Racial Mystique addresses the ways in which racism is rescripted, minimized, and ignored, but it would be useful to see more discussion of the ways in which privilege allows individuals to deny the experience of racial difference, or feel entitled to dismiss microaggressions.

They seem to be unquestionably linked. Comment on this page. Local Discussion Popout. Add your voice to this discussion. Checking your signed in status Version 2 id of this page, updated 01 December by Caroline Guthrie. Then show the end of the film, consider the third question from above and ask the students to reflect on how they might want to respond if they were in that situation.

If you and your students are comfortable, consider having students improvise the scene based on their best guess as to the way the male character might respond. What is at stake in an interaction like the one in the film? Consider using the three whys to explore the significance of the story? First Name. Email address: Street Address.

I'll give it to you with no slant. What's the difference between Asian cereal type one and two? Well, let me tell you, let me tell you everything you want to know about my culture let me tell you in a Mulan-esque soliloquy staring at the mirror asking: 'Who is that girl that I see!

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