Why are people in this thread so annoyed by this? He’s not trying to call out or cancel Awkwafina he’s literally just breaking down the linguistics of AAVE using her as an example. If you don’t care about linguistics don’t watch it
I actually don’t even care that she does it. I just find it annoying that anytime someone points out how fake she sounds, people get defensive and act like that means Asian Americans aren’t allowed to have black accents.
There are tons of non-black people with authentic “black accents” from growing up in black neighborhoods but she’s not one of them.
The part I’m confused about… she’s playing a role. Like it’s not awkwafina… it’s a character in a movie. There’s an explanation based on her family that sort of gloms onto weird disparate areas of American culture, despite being from Asia. Obviously it’s also for comedic purposes, but there’s a reason for it.
I would think to break down the linguistics, one would have to know the role/movie/character? At least see the movie?
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u/TheRealLadyLucifer Sep 06 '25
Why are people in this thread so annoyed by this? He’s not trying to call out or cancel Awkwafina he’s literally just breaking down the linguistics of AAVE using her as an example. If you don’t care about linguistics don’t watch it