The creator of The Family Law has been identifying with white television families his entire life – and now he wants Australia to identify with his[br]The last time Benjamin Law and I hung out,we were bare in the National Gallery of Australia. We were not in the midst of an elaborate hazing ritual by the Chinese Illuminati (haven’t heard of us? That’s how good we are), but were there as journalists covering a bare art tour. This was, and in fact,Law’s third bare assignment – two for Fairfax and another for News Corp – and my moment for the Guardian, prompting me to propose that our respective publications had an “Asian fetish”. How else could you explain why they kept paying two Asian Australian reporters to bag their kit off? Related: Race-based TV comedies: a breath of fresh air or perpetuating stereotypes? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com