“The focus is specifically on characters and faces of East Asian descent, which plays into issues of racism and colorism that still exist, not only in the US but in Asia,” the Singapore journalist Kirsten Han writes in Vox.
That’s even granting the film’s focus on people who are crazy rich (not-to avoid confusion-crazy and rich, though some are both). But in Singapore, some people are complaining that the film doesn’t capture their country’s actual diversity.
T he movie Crazy Rich Asians, adapted from Kevin Kwan’s best-selling novel, has been widely celebrated in the United States as a big step toward diversity: It’s a Hollywood movie with an Asian cast.
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