"[A visit to Manhattan’s Chinatown during the 2016 presidential election] He kicks off the segment by asking two women if he needs to bow to them, following that up by asking a street vendor if the watches he's selling are stolen. If that's not enough, he then asks an elderly Chinese man and woman questions in English, when it's clear they don't understand him, and decides to throw in random references to karate and taekwondo – non-Chinese martial arts – for good measure. All of this is interspersed with clips of Mr Miyagi from Karate Kid (who is Japanese, if that needed to be said), Bruce Lee and giggling Asian schoolgirls from an Austin Powers movie, set to a backdrop of what I like to call chopstick music. It's so over the top that it reads almost as a parody of itself."
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Esther Wang "How can Fox News think it's OK to mock Asian Americans in 2016?" The Guardian (6 October 2016)
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Jesse Watters
Jesse Bailey Watters (born July 7, 1978) is an American conservative political commentator on Fox News. A frequent participant on the political talk show The O'Reilly Factor, he was then known for his man-on-the-street interviews, featured in his segment "Watters' World". It became its own show in 2015, and turned weekly in January 2017. In April 2017, he became a co-host of the roundtable series The Five. In January 2022, Watters became host of Jesse Watters Primetime. In June 2023, Fox News an
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