Marry Chinese women! says Jackie Chan
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Sigh… Oh Jackie… Maybe you should keep your mouth shut and just keep grinning and kicking ass. From Angry Asian Man:
What kind of smack are you smoking, Jackie Chan? He seems to think it’s brilliant plan: “We can encourage more foreigners to marry Shanghai ladies so their children will be able to speak Chinese. It will help spread Chinese culture far and wide.” Yo, I don’t think it really works that way. At least, not that easily: Chan Urges Foreigners to Marry Chinese Women.
Jackie can be dumb! wrote:
Yeah, Jackie, it doesn’t necessarily work that way…my father married a Chinese woman and he didn’t learn Chinese. He wasn’t exactly sending me to Chinese school, either…”It will help spread Chinese culture far and wide.” I don’t think so!
Posted 21 Jun 2005 at 11:26 am ¶
Lila Pohl wrote:
I agree with Jackie Chan. I think with all this interracial dating nowadays, our cultures are being diluted. For example, census show that the Japanese-American community is quickly dying due to so many sell-outs. I’m proud that Jackie still stays true to his roots even though he is surrounded by so many non-Asians. I know a lot of Asian people in the entertainment business that become “whitewashed”.
Posted 23 Jun 2005 at 3:34 pm ¶
Sabrina wrote:
there is only one legit reason to marry: love, not to try any kind of ‘cultural exchange’ or ’social experiments!’ Mr Chans comments are just as offensive as those disgusting “mail order bride” websites that constantly slam on American/Canadian women and praise Asians, Russians, Philippinas and Latinas as being the “ideal” and “better” wives who will wait on the American man hand and foot…and the American husband never considers for a moment what the woman’s true feelings might be! I don’t call such contracted marriages true love matches…that’s a step above slavery in my opinion…and a slap to i/r couples everywhere!
Posted 07 Jul 2005 at 9:31 am ¶
just john wrote:
jackie chan, as a fellow asian male, i wanna like you but i can’t.
why?
while i recognize you’ve put in a incredible amount of work to gain your well deserved fame in asia, i haven’t seen you do the homework to figure out how your viewing audience here in the u.s. is different. please stop playing the hopeless helpless foreigner in the u.s., who’s only value to the plot is martial arts. i refuse to see another rush hour or shanghai noon where your character DOESN”T get the girl in the end. please GET THE GIRL in the end. did john wayne ever let his sidekck get the girl in the end? NO! and neither should your owen wilson’s character! what a kick in the teeth! show some self-respect please!
and your comment about marrying off shangainese women to foreigners, aka occidentals: naive. look around you, most western-loving asian women prefer caucasian males to the point that they REFUSE to date their own kind; equating such activities to be the same as dating their own brother “ewww!” — incest. [but when was the last time black or white women, wholesale, refuse to date their own?] the asian woman explains that caucasian males are more progressive than asian males, and are more willing to respect their autonomy, independence and development as individuals. your comment, only perpetuates asian women’s and western media’s proselytizing that asian males are undesireable as sex partners, life partners and alpha males at best, and misogynistic and tyranically patriarchal to the point of objectifying women at worst– which is what you’ve done w/ your comment/suggestion/public announcement.
one final suggestion: the next time you do a flick for the u.s. market, please get a modern haircut (i’ll give you my guy’s number), a director of photography who’ll shoot you the same way they shoot tom cruise, and make sure you insist on getting the girl in the end. that asian shyness thing, while cute in HK, is seen as wimpiness in the west, effectively emasculating you. don’t forget you represent the asian male to your western audiences.
thank you.
Posted 15 Jul 2005 at 3:04 am ¶
Phil wrote:
I think some people are missing the point of Chan’s message. I do not think he is talking about “contracted” marriage, he is only saying that people should accept the possiblility of Asians marrying Americans. So, how does that mean only white Americans as some have stated. The last time I looked America was full of many different cultures. We have males from all ethnic backgrounds. In America women are marrying across all ethnic lines, there is an accepted freedom to do this. Mixed race children are so common place that you don’t really notice anymore. Some people want to perpetuate the racist concepts but ironically they usually are not the whites but ethnic minorities who want to do this. Let’s try to get along and accept the possibilities!
Posted 07 Aug 2005 at 7:52 am ¶
spettro wrote:
i agree with Phil, let’s this mix this world up good, onto the future….
Posted 23 Aug 2005 at 6:27 am ¶
White women wrote:
I am very insulted Jackie Chan on your comment how men should only date chinese women! My fiancee is chinese and I caucasian, and we are expecting twin boys in a few month… And your comment is just going to say to my boys into the near future that their white mother is not good enough for their father. I can no longer respect you.
Posted 31 Aug 2005 at 11:04 am ¶
Shanghai Baby wrote:
Like they really need any more encouragement - typical dumarse comment from a naive mainlander who doesn’t fully realize the brute emasculation Asian men face abroad..
Posted 19 Dec 2005 at 12:57 pm ¶
Chan Fan wrote:
I love Jackie Chan. He is great.
Posted 01 May 2006 at 10:14 am ¶
roger wrote:
GO JACKY CHAN I LIKE THE ASIAN GIRLS THEY ARE PRETTY AND I WANT ·”%&$%&4 ONE BUT MARRIED AARGG
Posted 28 Jul 2006 at 11:56 am ¶