synopsis
“And a note to all you white people,” Asia Bradford (Jenna Ushkowitz) writes on her blog. “When you adopt your token child from the Orient, don’t overdo it with the cultural heritage bullshit. I’m reminded I’m not from here everyday I wake up and look at myself in the mirror. Plus it doesn’t help that I’m named Asia.”
This year, Asia’s “culturally sensitive,” white, adoptive family decided to dress up in Korean hanboks for the annual Christmas card; before that, it was saris, and before that, kimonos – all from the wonderfully diverse “country of Asia.” Needless to say, Asia finds herself wanting to be the furthest thing from yellow, and Korean, and takes solace in her very white boyfriend. But, when his ménage à trois suggestion happens to be another yellow girl she didn’t know he was “casually dating,” she blows a gasket.
Then John (Scott Patterson), a family friend, comes to stay, and Asia sees something familiar in him. When she finds out he’s been living in Korea for the past decade, she forgives him for it, cause what else are “old, ugly white dudes supposed to do, but end up in Asia?" As he’s the only other person in the house with nothing to do, they do nothing together, and by doing nothing together, they have something to do.
This year, Asia’s “culturally sensitive,” white, adoptive family decided to dress up in Korean hanboks for the annual Christmas card; before that, it was saris, and before that, kimonos – all from the wonderfully diverse “country of Asia.” Needless to say, Asia finds herself wanting to be the furthest thing from yellow, and Korean, and takes solace in her very white boyfriend. But, when his ménage à trois suggestion happens to be another yellow girl she didn’t know he was “casually dating,” she blows a gasket.
Then John (Scott Patterson), a family friend, comes to stay, and Asia sees something familiar in him. When she finds out he’s been living in Korea for the past decade, she forgives him for it, cause what else are “old, ugly white dudes supposed to do, but end up in Asia?" As he’s the only other person in the house with nothing to do, they do nothing together, and by doing nothing together, they have something to do.