The film is aimed at an American audience, and Americans don't have much of a breakdown of Asians.
Not going to watch the movie in its entirety, but read a lot of reviews from Asian and other ethnic audiences.
The author of the original book, Kevin, ranked East Asians according to their old money, from high to low: Indonesian Chinese, Singaporeans, Hong Kong people, Malaysian Chinese, Eurasian mixed race, Asian Americans in New York and Los Angeles, and private equity in Connecticut. Asian Americans, Asian Canadians in Toronto and Vancouver, Chinese Australians living in Melbourne and Sydney, Thais, Filipinos in Forbes Park, American-born Chinese, Taiwanese, Koreans, Mainland Chinese, ordinary Indonesians people.
Not sure where he would rank Indians in Singapore. Eighty percent of Singapore is Chinese, but there are almost no Malay and Indian characters in the film, except for security guards, which is even more serious than the monopoly of white Americans in Hollywood.
A Malay-Singapore playwright said, "What kind of Hollywood movie is this all-Asian starring? It's obviously replacing white actors with East Asians/white people wannabes?"
I can't hear Singlish in the movie, the accents are all British.
There are also comments that in some social circles in Singapore, if you marry a Malay, you have to break away from the family of origin. As for intermarriage with whites, there is certainly no discrimination.
Actor Henry Golding's father is British and his mother is Malay. Maybe a pure Asian male as the protagonist will affect the US box office? A newspaper in Singapore commented: "Hollywood thinks one drop of Asian blood is enough to be Asian."
The film and the author have been emphasizing the concept of old money. But if you've read The Style, The Unspoken Rules of What Brits Do or Divide: A Social Critique of Judgment, you'll see that the films were made entirely in the style of a working-class football star who grew up in East London. This explanation is a long story. If friends are interested, I will write an explanation of the old money in the movie later. Private jets, mansions, servant security, designer dresses, crazy shopping for bags and jewelry, pompous weddings and dress parties, bling bling, is the Asian version of Gatsby.
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