DOCUMENTARY.
A more sneaky racism
“I am not chinetoque: History of anti-Asian racism”, at 9 p.m., on France 5.
The title is a nod to the documentary by Marie Portolano (“I am not a slut”), which denounced the misogyny and sexist violence that reign in the world of sports journalism.
Émilie Tran Nguyen, star journalist for France Télévisions, tackles a social subject that is close to her heart: racism against Asians.
“The problem is that our community suffers from positive racism.
We can allow ourselves to be uninhibited because we convey positive clichés: hardworking people, who don't make noise.
It’s a racism that is less frontal, less violent, more hidden, more insidious, (…) which infuses itself and which explodes,” analyzes Frédéric Chau, the actor in “Qu’est-ce qu’on a fait au Bon God ?
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Enlightened by relevant speakers, the former presenter of France 3's "12/13" explores the issue, not hesitating to put herself on stage with her own father and grandmother to understand her story : that of a very wealthy family, who left everything behind, “even the cat”, to flee the Cambodian genocide, even if it meant being demoted to the very bottom of the social ladder in France.
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