![]() White guys think they’re exotic… Everything that makes Asian girls seem exotic makes Asian guys seem like girls” descriptions of Park’s mother comparing her to a China doll that further solidify the misogynistic “exotic” stereotype the fact that Park literally does kung fu against a bully at one point… the list goes on! And on! (Rowell and production company Picturestart did not respond to a request for comment.) Since the movie deal was announced, dissenters have taken to Twitter to denounce Rowell’s Cho-Chang–ass naming choices ( Park is an extremely popular Korean surname, not first name, something Rowell acknowledged in an FAQ) the choice to hire a Japanese director to tell a Korean American story her descriptions of Park as feminine her description of another Asian boy’s “just barely almondy” eyes dialogue between the two main characters where Park says “Asian girls are different. While this sounds like just the kind of book I’d embrace and promote on this blog, Eleanor & Park is actually rather racist.Īnd now it’s getting made into a movie, which has renewed the criticism of racism in the book, as noted in an article about the movie on Vice: ![]() The YA novel Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell features a white girl and a biracial Korean boy falling in love in high school. ![]()
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