1. 这篇文章至少有4000字，文末英文部分同样属于本文观点，全文阅读时间5-8分钟，如果你不想花时间阅读全文，请勿留言，看了头疼
2. 此文讨论的问题剑走偏锋，它能帮助你思考美国影视作品中对亚裔形象共有的刻板印象，但同时也会让你不得不承受思考的痛苦——“明明是玛丽苏小甜剧，为什么要纠结这么多！人家只想逃离现实生活，享受帅哥美女和美食美景啊啊啊”——Sorry，我能做的只有提醒你不要点开，不要折磨自己 😢
3. 如果你只想看个电视剧轻松一下，那这篇文章注定要让你的惬意泡汤！
4. 我都苦口婆心说了这么多，如果还有人留言一些人身攻击和断章取义的留言，那我们也只能小黑屋见了……💔
什么？你真的要看么？
好吧……那就.......深呼吸……
花了一天时间看完了这部剧，感觉还是挺下饭的。
假如是十年前，少女心满满的我肯定会向迷恋《绯闻女孩》一样热爱这部剧，毕竟它绚烂、华丽、多姿多彩、节奏轻快，暖色调的巴黎如梦似幻，帅哥美女不限量供应，女主升级打怪如有神助，还顺便能普及一把“女人当自强”的观念，哪个1字头年纪的少女能拒绝这种玛丽苏爽剧？就跟男人喜欢看种马文一样，女人也喜欢看男后宫。
但是，这部剧里的一些角色的设定实在是太怪了……
比如，身为中国人，我对于电影里的中国角色Mindy毫无代入感，甚至觉得好笑。
长得像贾玲的Mindy，设定是阿拉上海银，“拉链大王之女”，千亿小公举。因为不喜欢被家人安排做家族企业接班人，又在歌唱表演大赛上跑调，悲愤交加之下辍学跑到巴黎当保姆，“追逐自由的生活”。
从她跟女主的对话里，你会发现外国人对于中国的看法就是“忙、束缚、不自由”。在中国你会活得很压抑，爹妈不通人情，没办法追求梦想，而巴黎才是伊甸园，是宇宙浪漫主义和懒惰精神的核心。
来巴黎吧，这里的人都笨笨的，就算你操着一口不知道哪个犄角旮旯的方言，也能给得了多动症的巴黎小孩当汉语老师；就算你被爹妈断了生活费，你也能活得有滋有味，在雇主家开party醉生梦死，嗨到沙发上都是大麻味；就算你n久不开口练嗓，但只要心怀歌手梦，巴黎哪里都是你的舞台，就连在酒吧献唱一曲都能换来个正式工作，相比起来中国的“Cpop秀”是多么埋没人才啊！
如果说这些只是因为导演想展示Mindy的洒脱、不羁、独立，那也能理解。但是直到Mindy的上海姐妹团夜店一出场，我就彻底意识到了，这编剧和导演恐怕是根本不了解我们中国的本土富二代啊！
烟熏妆粗眼线，爆乳连衣裙金亮片，婊子碧池臭贱人，香槟怼脸冲满面。
To Be Honest，这不就是《摘金奇缘》里面的疯狂有钱亚洲人么？把国籍一改，就成中国人了，换汤不换药啊！
你要是说她们不在中国长大，而是从小就生在美融入当地文化，跟老美称姐道妹喊sister，那我还能理解。但是编剧的设定是，Mindy直到初中都在国内，去美国读了个高中，大学又跑来法国读商学院，相当于只在美国生活和学习了三年多的时间。
可她跟她的小姐妹，怎么全都一副土生土长的ABC的样子？是我们中国文化不够有魅力，还是你们美国精神太洗脑？如果想营造“文化差异”，不应该把华人和其他亚洲人的文化特征区分一下么？
当然，我对演员本人没有意见。Ashley Park从小在美国长大，在接这部戏之前没说过普通话，也没怎么去过中国，自然浑身上下都是美式细胞。只是在她塑造的Mandy身上，我几乎看不到任何中国元素，除了一张亚裔的面孔（Ashley Park有韩国血统，Park应该是“朴”姓）。
其实，中国本土富二代跟ABC之间最大的区别，我觉得是【更加强烈的文化自信】。
中国现在经济已经不同往日，尤其是10年以后，一堆含着金钥匙出生的二代们被父母送到欧美高中，有些还会随手附赠豪车洋房。很少有人会像数十年前的ABC、BBC初代那样，竭尽所能的融入当地文化，甚至忘记怎么说普通话，把当地国家的语言当作母语来练习。
中国二代们在审美上也自成一派，唐人街走一圈，穿着和妆容上就能看出来区别。讲真，中国的“xx大王之女”，很少会是Mindy姐妹那种风格的。有钱人家教通常也很好，不说文质彬彬，但鲜少会浮夸造作，就算有特立独行的，也颇有时尚品味，总之是不太会穿得像农村艳舞团。
【此处本来有一张配图，但是我把图删掉了，怕误导大家理解错方向】
当然，名媛里也有狂野派。Club里嗨翻天，KTV里唱昏头，跑街上撒酒疯跳舞，讨厌被束缚，一心追求自由。
我认识一个xx大王之女，对方也是拒绝被爹妈安排婚事，靠着不到30k的工资独自生活在伦敦。她初中就来英国了，读到研究生毕业，英语流利到宛如native speaker，ins好友外国人多过华人。
但总归来说，你看到她的时候，能一眼认出来，她是中国人。
不是韩国人，也不是日本人，而是中国人。
中国人的文化特征其实很鲜明，鲜明到几乎不能被三五年的留学经历彻底抹去痕迹。
我们特有的民族自豪感，对长辈的尊重，对家庭观念的重视，以及对分寸感的把握，在Mindy这个角色上彻底失踪。毕竟，这是个能对给她买房买车的爸爸喊混蛋（assholes），能不请自来住姐妹家的洋气姑娘……
你说她不好么？不，她很好，只是她不够Chinese。
我几乎辨认不出她身上的中国元素，自然也不能对她的故事感同身受。
你把她的故事安排在韩国人身上，或者日本人身上，也是没什么违和感，除了中国的“独生子女政策”似乎让“继承家业”这个选项更压抑了一些。
从导演对几个【非美国】角色的塑造上，完全能体会本片的明褒暗贬之意。用法国人的懒散无章法衬托美国人的聪明伶俐，用法国人的male gazing体现美国人的“女权精神”，顺便再用中国的“不自由”反衬一下法国的人性化，有点像是黑了法国太多次，得再黑一下其他国家以捧法国人臭脚。
搞笑的是，机智的剧方还巧妙的借用Mindy之口，diss了一下中国的“思想不自由”：
疫情期间，美国老百姓在Tik Tok上面了解到了美国政府对控制疫情的无能。自由民主的美利坚政府是怎么做的呢？咦，说好的You can't punish people for their thoughts呢？五十步笑百步啊～
这个时候还在一部无脑玛丽苏甜剧里搞propaganda，暗搓搓地暗示中国思想不自由，真忍不住笑了，以为用五光十色的玻璃糖纸包裹一坨翔，就没有人能发现这玩意是💩不是糖么？
言归正传。导演的目的是体现文化碰撞，但可笑的是，他没有深入了解两国文化之间的本质差异，而是把十几年前网络上流行的段子抄抄拼拼，摆出一盘大杂烩。
这让我想到了十年前流行的那个段子：
天堂：警察是英国的，厨子是意大利的，工程师是德国的，爱人是法国的，他们全都被瑞士人管理着。
地狱：警察是德国的，厨子是英国的，工程师是法国的，爱人是瑞士的，他们全都被意大利人管理着。
十年过去了，美剧还是继续在拍这个段子，换汤不换药，cliche到好笑。
难怪法国人看了都翻白眼。我随便翻了翻法国网站对这部剧的看法，一半人说“巴黎如此美丽，你们没拍出来万分之一”，一半人骂负分滚粗，“你们美国好莱坞qj女明星，现在跑来我们这教女权，好大的脸”～
我个人觉得，这是即《花木兰》之后，美国搞异国元素跌的又一大坑。
傲慢的美国影视公司，想要一边吃法式料理，一边吃几口中国菜，但却不想去了解这两个国家的文化内涵，还暗戳戳地想向世界展示自己本国文化的优越性。
法国影评人说得很直白了，“如果不是因为世界局势这么紧张，大家压力这么大，谁想看你这部俗套的片子解闷？”
但中国观众似乎不为所动，甚至对Mindy“有梦就去追，天地之大任我行”的美国梦精神颇有同感。
Mindy这种左宗棠鸡式的亚裔角色，本质上还是在宣传西方普世价值观，脱中入欧才能得到自由。
你看，Emily来到巴黎，成天穿得像只花蝴蝶招摇过市，非常典型的美式时尚品味让法国人作呕，但她改了么？- 没有。Emily作为一个marketing部门的员工（应该是Junior level），来法国教当地人怎么做branding，结果连法语都不会，被法国人连番羞辱，她觉得自卑了么？- 也没有。
她保持着自己身上的美国气质，就算被骂俗，也能把法国人带得更俗来证明“潮流变了”。她跟每一个认识的人说英语，默认法国人全都是双语能手。她带着超强的文化自信和优越的社交媒体运营经验，一路过关斩将、顺风顺水，要把先进的美利坚文明播种在故步自封的法兰西大地上。看完全集，她除了学了几句蹩脚的法语，睡了几个法国帅哥外，丝毫没有被法式文化影响和改变，从里到外都还是原汁原味的美国人。
但Mindy呢，美黑，欧美妆，法语流利，英语流利，普通话诡异……
嘿，你不说你是中国人，我还真不知道你是哪儿的人。
希望导演和编剧能认识到，我们Chinese，有自己的审美和文化。
就算是追求自由人生，也不一定要摒弃身上的中国元素，向美国人学习审美打扮性格和处事风格。
没想到有位姐们儿跟我在同一天写了同样主题的文章，分析为什么Mindy无法让中国人产生代入感 😂
太巧了！贴出来大家一起读读看。
这个文章底下的留言有点意思。
就连一些美国人都觉得，Mindy的形象是一种美式文化对中国人的刻板印象，可一些中国人却一点儿不这么认为，反而觉得很开心，觉得华人在美剧中总算有“讨人喜欢的角色”了。
怎么会这样？🤔
原文地址：https://medium.com/@ellengau/emily-in-paris-asian-women-i-know-arent-like-mindy-chen-6228e63da333
Bored on a Sunday afternoon, I decided to check out the currently trending Netflix show “Emily in Paris” after reading mixed reviews about it. I was warned about all the stereotypes and (French) cliches by a Guardian critic, but it didn’t hit me fully until I was introduced to the character Mindy Chen.
If you haven’t seen “Emily in Paris,” it’s a story about Emily, an American woman who moves to Paris to take up a Marketing job. Not long after her arrival, she befriends Mindy, a Chinese-Korean woman who is a nanny and used to study in the States.
There are many questionable things about Emily, but I’ll leave her for the American viewers. This article will discuss Mindy Chen and other Asian characters on the show from my perspective as an Asian person who grew up in Vietnam and moved to London for study and know plenty of others who have similar backgrounds to Mindy’s.
The Mindy character has a cliche rich kid backstory: She runs away from her loaded family in Shanghai to be a nanny in Paris as she doesn’t want to live the life her parents plan out for her.
To mix things up a little bit, the show creators give Mindy a musical talent — which, I guess, is because Ashley Park playing Mindy has a background in Broadway. They also make her half-Korean instead of full-on Chinese — though I’m not sure what the intention of this is as Mindy comes across as much more American-born than Asian-born, let alone specifically Korean or Chinese or a mixture of both.
She reminds me of Peik Lin from Crazy Rich Asians. Peik Lin was portrayed by Awkwafina, whose performance was criticised for being attached to Black culture and is not an accurate representation of Asian people, especially those born and grow up in Asia.
Both Peik Lin (in the movie) and Mindy Chen are the Asian best friends who come from rich families and exist to encourage the main character to go out of her comfort zone. Mindy, in particular, gives morally questionable relationship advice to Emily throughout the show and, as a result, makes the American lead seem more coy and sensible in comparison.
As a relationship writer, I wanted to stop these characters at many points during the show and give them some urgent coaching sessions because, welp, they make horrible relationship decisions and are such bad friends and colleagues — there’s no likable character.
For this reason, I lost interest quickly halfway through, yet I continued to watch till the end of the season in case I might miss some crucial materials for this article. Lo and behold, later in the season, Mindy Chen meets up with her Shanghai friends at a club where these ladies act like they have absolutely no human control — I couldn’t relate to any of it.
As an Asian woman who experiences both the Western and Eastern worlds and has Chinese and Korean friends, I want to clear up a few things and give you a wilder perspective of the real-life Asian population.
The point of this article is to say not all Asian people in real life, even those with similar backgrounds to Mindy Chen’s, act like them. It aims to avoid generalisation based on these characters by those who might have limited experiences with Asian people.
It’s also my rant as literally an Asian person with a similar background to that of the Asian characters in this show.
Mindy Chen might exist in real life, but she’s definitely not the majority. So is Peik Lin and the world of Crazy Rich Asians.
Most Asian people I know are from the working class. We don’t have a wildly rich family planning a life for us back in Asia; we’re supposed to build a life for ourselves here and, in many cases, help out our family back home financially.
Most of us moving overseas is neither loaded nor incurably nerdy as often portrayed in movies. We’re smart, progressive, socially quick, and hardworking — because we have to.
In my social circle, Asian women don’t portray themselves as “DTF.” They’re usually relationship-oriented and vocally so. And they don’t tell their friends to have sex with a guy in a relationship (or marriage, for that matter) just because “it’s French.”
“[He belongs to his wife] And whoever else he is banging, so why not you? Look, you haven’t done Paris right until you’ve had at least one wildly inappropriate affair.” — Mindy Chen’s advice to Emily when Emily says she receives lingeries from her married client who is also having an affair with her boss.
In modern Asian culture, cheating is condemned across the board and, if we hear someone who gives horrible advice like Mindy Chen, we would not be friends with her. She would be shamed.
I haven’t partied with the “crazy rich Asians” so I can’t speak for them, but I do know many Asian women like to look pretty and polished at a club, so it’s highly unlikely they would mess up their dresses and make-ups by aggressively spilling a waterfall of champagne on themselves.
There are bottle services, for sure, but the Asian female party scene I’ve seen in mainstream clubs is much tamer and classier than the portrayal in this show.
In one of the scenes, Mindy nonchalantly mentions over-staying her visa.
Her attitude couldn’t be more fictional. The Asians I know in real life would do anything to make sure they do their visas correctly, including hiring expensive lawyers to help with a simple application form.
If there’s some issue with their visa, they would be quietly anxious about it and do anything to fix it.
I haven’t met any Asian kids that speak to their fathers like Mindy does, and if a kid speaks to their parents like that, it is not normal — it is frowned upon by the entire Asian cultures.
If you see an Asian character on screen, take it with a grain of salt. Don’t assume that all Asians are like that or the same. Most likely, even Asian people can’t relate to those Asian characters at all. Mindy Chen might as well be played by a White actress — it would make no difference.
In fact, having a two-dimensional Asian version of Samantha from “Sex and the City” like Mindy Chen can perpetuate the sexual objectification of Asian women who are seen as easy targets by White men on dating apps. Asian women are not exotic sexual escapes — we are people with feelings and thoughts and values. Well, the film industry needs more female and minority show creators to make it right.
As for “Emily in Paris”, I would rate it 2 out of 5 for the visual designs and Lily Collins — Paris and Emily’s outfits are beautiful. If you don’t think too hard, the show can be quite entertaining. I did enjoy the scenes where Emily wins at her job. But, if you just think longer than a second, you would soon ask yourself, “What the hell am I doing with my life?”
以及一些推上的观点：
深深地感谢理解能力和思考能力一流的豆友们，意见碰撞是一件很开心的事情，就算有分歧，只要彼此尊重，交换意见，那也能有所收获。
但是一上来就劝我“出国门”、“多看看世界”的人，送你们一句话：人越是缺少什么，就越爱显摆什么。
缺乏阅历的人爱炫耀自己的年纪，缺乏思考的人爱说自己读书多，缺乏视野的人爱让别人开眼看世界。老毛一辈子只去过2次苏联，所以他分析西方国家的文章，肯定没在外数十载的你写得好吧？🐶 不知道这种人劝别人做事之前，有没有吾日三省吾身：
“我今天又自卑了么？我今天又自负了么？我今天又脑袋空空却想装了么？”
以及，有强烈反对意见的话，请先留言
【Mindy和她朋友们身上最具备Chinese元素的五个特质】
什么？你说没必要纠结Chinese元素？那编剧给她安排一个【中国】的背景是为了啥，演员本人是韩裔，那演韩国人岂不是得心应手，难道韩国人不配有向往自由的富家女么？
再次申明，人物角色是否可爱迷人不是本文重点讨论的话题。我在聊中国文化元素，你在想角色可不可爱，咱们讲得都不是一个主题啊 😂
美国影视作品可太会PUA了，导致很多人觉得，中国人的形象从奴隶到“令人喜欢”的角色是一种进步。
但在我看来，这是从💩，变成了巧克力味的💩。自己心态这么好，姿态这么低，也不能怪人家觉得你好欺负啊......
我要送给大家老毛的一段话，出自《中尼边界要永远和平友好》：
“每个民族都有长处，都有缺点。要学习每个民族的长处，不管这些民族的大小。
我们东方人有一种自卑感，总觉得自己不行，白种人比我们强。
这是一种迷信，要破除。
既要破除迷信，又要向西方学习。
破除迷信与向他们学习并不矛盾，如我们可以派留学生，进口他们的设备等。
我不是反对西方的一切，而只是反对那些压迫人、欺侮人的东西。
他们的文化科学我们要学习。
东方人要向西方学习，要在破除迷信的条件下学习西方。”
Over！
