These dreamy portraits rebel against stereotypes of Asian youth culture
Editor’s pick — Culture quick take: the cultural angle (trend signal, audience insight, crossover with fashion/music/art) in 1–2 lines. There are many Orientalist and racist tropes in modern thinking which prescribe East Asian people as less ‘human’ than their Western counterparts. ‘Mechanistic dehumanisation,’ for example, purported in films such as Blade Runner 2049, suggests that…
