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Peik Lin, refreshingly brash, calls bullshit.
Throughout the film, Peik Lin is Rachels lone ally.
Shes coming at me, thinking Im gonna swerve like a chicken, Rachel realizes.
But you cant swerve, Peik Lin interjects, throwing up her left index finger.
You gon roll up to that weddin and be like bawk bawk, bitch.
She switches to her right hand, head and finger bobbing side to side.
(On Peik Lin: Im not like her at all, she told Fan.)
Jenkins mentions Drake, who has similarly been semi-seriously accused of borrowing from the diaspora when it suits him.
And yet, power doesnt often propagate itself so plainly in popular culture.
In the year 2018, its hardly, if ever, a straightforward route from A to B.
Was it another bout of Bo Derek cosplay?
Had she seen it on Instagram?
The question is: Who owns what?
And the charge of a blaccent inCrazy Rich Asiansuncomfortably invigorates the contradiction.
Either you know, or you dont.
On the other hand, Awkwafinas antics dont, to me, conjure blackness any more thanEd Sheerans bars.
And while she successfully imitates something, its not black language.
Her dad dubs her Asian Ellen and Peik Lin rolls her eyes while an older family member laughs.
That baggage includes the blaccent as a matter-of-fact comedy heuristic.
Nick and Eleanor are in his old room; both are talking around each other.
Whentheres something to say about Rachel and me, youll be first to hear, he tells her.
Some things, I need to figure out on my own.
Eleanor shakes her head.
Is that an American accent Im hearing?
Nick only smiles, unbothered by the slippage he probably didnt notice.
