This week we take a look at The Karate Kid (1984) and its most recent retelling (2010) to discuss American appropriation and its erasure of Asian cultures, violence as a problematic coping mechanism, and how white writers are obsessed with fictionalizing and performing the black experience.

 

Timestamps

0:05:14 - The Karate Kid (1984)

0:51:06 - The Karate Kid (2010)

1:31:23 - Outro

 

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