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Stop calling Emma Stone’s character "Asian" you bourgeois dorks

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Carl Beijer
Jun 05, 2015
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Liberals are up in arms over the decision to cast cracker-white Emma Stone as a character who is a quarter Chinese and a quarter Hawaiian. Her Hawaiian identity is particularly central to her character: Entertainment Weekly describes her as a “Hula dancing expert with a functional knowledge of Hawaiian folk guitar who rhapsodizes about the islander spir…

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