Bling Empire, a Netflix reality show featuring a mostly Asian-American cast, is trash-TV at its finest and is a trailblazer for the representation of Asians in US entertainment.
But for viewers in China, the show is yet another example of misrepresenting Asian culture.
Many Chinese viewers find the show’s portrayal of Asian culture foreign and absurd at best, shallow and inappropriate at worst. Of the 2,875 people who reviewed the show on movie review site Douban, 46% rate it three out of five stars and 36% wrote a negative review.
Inspired by the success of the 2018 movie Crazy Rich Asian, Netflix reality TV show Bling Empire portrays the life of a small circle of affluent Asians in Los
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Feb 09, 2021