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Asian Hooker Stereotype
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In the Anglosphere, and particularly the USA, one classic stereotype of the pan-Asian woman is the Asiatic prostitute. This trope is just a stereotype, mind, and it doesn't require someone actually being — or 'believing' that someone is — a prostitute for it to be brought up. The trope would appear to have its origins in the 1960s and '70s, in the wake of the height of the USA's military-political intervention in Asia. Or possibly earlier, with the enslavement of Korean, Chinese, and Filipina "comfort women" during the Japanese occupation of World War II. Much of the exposure that US servicemen did have with the locals in Indochina was with prostitutes, as it had been during the Korean War. That films about the war should depict this, along with the endemic black-market trading and drug use, is no surprise. But films of the time also began to include ethnic-Asian characters in stories set in the USA itself, the influx of Vietnamese refugees perhaps serving to highlight the existence of the USA's Asians where before they had been largely ignored. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this trope really came into its own when Asian women were also portrayed as being prostitutes within American society. While this had some basis in reality, it's worth noting that this was virtually the only role in which Asian women were seen for many years, Dragon Lady role aside. This led to an interesting situation where all Asian women were either conniving kung-fu/wushu temptresses or prostitutes. This isn't as true these days, as portrayals of Indian/Subcontinental and East Asian women tend to show them in more varied roles, even within European societies, but there's still a strong baseline of light-brown-skinned call-girl and streetwalker characters. That south-east Asia and its peoples should continue to be associated with Prostitution in European media is however unsurprising, given the influx of first-world tourists and 'sex tourists' to Indochina during and since America's heavy involvement in the region. If the person doing the stereotyping is... |
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In the 1960 movie The World of Suzie Wong, Suzie is depicted as a prostitute who falls hopelessly in love with Caucasian man who refuses to return her feelings. She's something of an Unbuilt Trope, shown to have a complicated past and is trying in fact to escape her life as a prostitute - and also has a son she has to provide for. | |
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Da 5 Bloods has Tiên, the contact who helps the Bloods connect with Desroche, who was a prostitute during the Vietnam War who had a relationship with Otis (which ended up producing a daughter). She seems fairly well-off in present day but confides in Otis about the difficulty of living with the stigma of being a prostitute who serviced American soldiers, while also being the single mother of a black mixed-race daughter no less. | |
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In Goldstone, the Chinese girls brought in to work at the mine's brothel are instructed to act this way as it is what the men expect. | |
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In The Big Hit, Keiko's initial boyfriend is Caucasian. While attempting to rape her, the jerk quotes two phrases from Full Metal Jacket: "Me sucky-sucky" and "Me love you long time". By implication calling his "girlfriend" an Asian whore. | |
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In Mammoth, a major plotline starts with Leo visiting a place where sex-workers and clients hook up, just to have a look. He obviously expected the local prostitute to be a living stereotype: Finding out that she's a regular normal person makes him shocked and confused. He awkwardly tried to take up the role of Mighty Whitey Knight in Shining Armor instead, but it doesn't work. After that, he spends the rest of the story trying to convince himself that he's a heroic lover and that paying a sex-worker "for not having sex" and then have sex with her after all does not make him a John. This also fails miserably, and he end up leaving her without even saying good-bye... Thus after all treating her as a lowly whore to be used and discarded.. As for the racist "all Asian women are sex-workers" stereotype version of this trope, the movie limits this to Thailand by having Gloria as a central character, Gloria's mother as an important side character, and loads of minor female Asian characters who have nothing to do with the sex industry. In Thailand, however, every single female character who gets any actual dialogue just happens to be prostitute. |
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Dr. Kelso in Scrubs frequently cheats on his wife with various prostitutes. All of them are Asian. He does say they are his type, and he probably developed this preference during his time in the Vietnam war. | |
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War Hunt: The Hays Code was dying in 1962 but wasn't quite dead. So this movie, set near the end of the Korean War, gets the idea across by having a very pretty Korean woman on the other side of the barbed wire say hello to Private Loomis. Then, out of the blue, she says "I love you." She follows this up by saying "You got trouble, GI? Come on, I fix!, and reassuring him "No MP!" Loomis takes a pass. | |
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Vietnam War documentary Hearts and Minds has a thoroughly gross Real Life example of this, when two American servicemen have sex with two prostitutes in a dirty little room. | |
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Jerry: Jerry's father is into these (especially underage) and eventually marries one to adopt his orphaned grandson in the finale. | |
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Cynthia, the Asian stripper married to Bob in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert fits the trope perfectly, down to the slutty talk in broken English. | |
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Inverted in the New Girl episode “No Girl�, the guys decide to turn the loft into an Airbnb while Jess is away at jury duty. One of the guests, Kumiko, is a Japanese woman whom Nick finds himself attracted to. The two of them end up having a sexual encounter. Afterwards, when he awkwardly still tries to charge her for her stay, she agrees to pay- but she thinks the reason she’s paying him is that he’s a male prostitute, or “working boy� as she calls him. | |
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Full Metal Jacket is arguably the Trope Codifier with its infamous line "Me love you long time". The second half of the movie takes place in Vietnam, yet the sex worker saying this and a few more lines still constitute the majority of Vietnamese characters' dialogue. Note that the soundtrack just happen to be about a woman breaking up and getting revenge. The movie ends with most of the squad getting gunned down by a Vietnamese sniper — who is then revealed to be young and female. | |
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M*A*S*H had several episodes dealing with Korean "business girls". It's also heavily implied when discussing mentions of leave trips to Tokyo. | |
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At one point in Ong-Bak, an Australian fighter taunts the Thai fighters claiming Thai women come to his country to become hookers because Thai men are wimps. | |
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In C'est la Vie, Vietnamese-American Tiffany Nguyen is seen as this by her rival for the affections of Louis, Mona Montrois. It doesn't help that Mona is going through a psychotic episode for which she is later hospitalised after attempting to kill Tiffany. | |
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Abduction of Eden: Invoked when Eden, a sex slave in a human trafficking ring, is told to play up her "Asian shtick" for some clients. She throws on a stereotypical heavy Chinese accent while wearing a bastardized qipao costume— despite the fact that she is Korean and speaks perfect English. | |
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Final Destination 5. When company sleazeball Isaac enters an Asian massage parlor, it's blatantly obvious that he tries to invoke this in the douchebaggiest way possible by harassing the receptionist, complete with inquiring if there will be a "happy ending". When the girl makes it clear that the place isn't a brothel, he still doesn't take the hint. He gets duly rewarded when the girl sets him up for an exceptionally rough massage performed by her much older mother. | |
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Visiting Lower Hensha in Deus Ex: Human Revolution for the first time dumps you right onto the roof of a Chinese brothel. From there on, you can count on getting a bunch of jobs in the city involving hookers. On the other hand, getting them to work for you is impossible, since Adam already has a girlfriend. | |
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Steel Panther make it obvious their song "Asian Hooker" is about hookers from all over Asia. | |
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In The Legend of Total Drama Island, Noah invokes this trope when he calls the Asian or half-Asian Heather "the Fu King master". It's not clear whether Noah thinks Heather actually fits the stereotype or whether he's just being creatively insulting. | |
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Deconstructing Harry: While the Asian prostitute is an extreme stereotype, her attitude, personality and accent are all purely American, which probably means she's just roleplaying the Trope. | |
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One episode of South Park has Cartman suffer a head injury that makes him forget who he is. When he wakes up after the injury, he thinks he's a female Vietnamese hooker and starts to act like the trope. | |
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There were few Asian women in Barney Miller aside from Perlita, Frank Luger's Mail-Order Bride. Dorothy Murakami came in to report a purse snatching; she is elegant and personable, and Nick Yemana is smitten, before he knows she is a streetwalker. When he finds out, he takes her out anyway. | |
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Played with in Hector and the Search for Happiness with Ying Li, the high-end call girl that wealthy banker Edward hires to entertain his new friend Hector. Edward sets it up to make it look like Ying is just a young woman at the bar who's interested in Hector, and she's so well-spoken and refined that Hector doesn't even realize she's a prostitute until their conversation the next morning. | |
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Exploited in The Fighter, as Dicky Ecklund's girlfriend readily poses as a hooker for a scam they are running. | |
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For all the Asian culture in Firefly, the only Asian character with a speaking role is a whore. | |
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An early subversion comes in the form of Hui Fei in Shanghai Express. She's a prostitute yes but portrayed as a High-Class Call Girl who speaks perfect English and after being raped by the villain gets revenge by stabbing him in the back. Additionally she has a white prostitute as a companion. | |
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Back in the USSA: In "The Teddy Bear's Picnic", which tells the story of Apocalypse Now in an Alternate History where the US went communist and the UK is the world's foremost democratic superpower, there is a Vietmanese prostitute nicknamed Vimo Vingh who services the British troops and embodies the stereotypes and dialogue of Asian hookers seen in films like Full Metal Jacket. | |
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The Sopranos: In the Film-Within-the-Show Cleaver, Michael's Asian-American fiancée is due to marry him in two days and is initially worried when he goes missing, but all it needs to convince her to forget about him and bang his boss is two tacky come-on lines from Sal. Notable primarily for being a Race Lift, since Adriana was white. The season four episode "The Test Dream" saw Tony staying at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan. He orders an Asian escort to pass the time. |
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In The Odd Angry Shot, the boys from Patrol 22 encounter the typical Asian hookers shouting the typical come-ons while on leave in Saigon. | |
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