Asian man didn’t fit the public’s expectations, and was therefore unnerving. Asian men could be socially inept and incompetent and ridiculous, like a Long Duk Dong, or at best unthreatening and slightly buffoonish, like a Jackie Chan. They were not allowed to be angry and articulate and powerful.
I know this book is written by a Chinese American, but I still don’t agree with things like this being in a book without anyone in the book challenging it.
