FOB, OK?

[Unkotare]

Considering how many new shows fail, one hopes all the significance being attached doesn't lead to big disappointment.


Fresh Off the Boat Signals a New Era for Asian-Americans - US News

 

[Moonglow]

Fishing boat?

 

[Mad Scientist]

The Mom is kinda' hot! I'd never watch the show though.

 

[DGS49]

There is no such thing as an Asian-American. To suppose that there is requires that you lump together Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Cambodian, Thai, Taiwanese, Philippine, and a dozen other ethnicities, and pretend that they are one homogeneous group.

Further, to most "Americans," they ARE one homogeneous group. When I point out to my wife that a Korean is portraying a Chinese person, or a Japanese person is portraying a Vietnamese, she looks at me like I'm crazy. "What's the difference?"

But the ethnicities are all different, as are the cultures and in most cases, the main modes of immigration, acculturation, and assimilation. Thus, there is no "typical" story for an Asian family or sub-community.

Every family story is different. Chinese railroad workers. Korean Grocers. Indian motel owners. Indian academics and professionals. Chinese laundry owners and restauranteurs. Vietnamese fishermen. Philippine nurses. Chinese academics and doctors.

Which one is "typical Asian"?

 

[rcfieldz]

Which one is "typical Asian"?

Do you mean typical Asian in America? Would that be Julie Chen?