There are about 340,000 foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong, mostly women from the Philippines and Indonesia. I’ve become so jaded by HK’s racism towards ethnic minorities that when I saw that programme doing brown face I wasn’t surprised, just deeply disappointed – but what’s new- Louise Bedaña April 13, 2022
“We can very much tell our story with our own faces.” “How could anyone say okay to brownface and think that a non-Filipino portraying a domestic helper is okay?” she wrote on Twitter. Jianne Soriano, a Hong Kong-born Filipina writer, agreed that there were plenty of Filipino actresses in the city who could have played the role. “It wouldn’t have been difficult to look for someone with Filipino heritage to play the role,” she said. “Domestic workers have done so much for Hong Kong, and I think it’s disrespectful to them and to Filipinos in general to do this,” she added.
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“I don’t think it’s appropriate that she had to darken her skin for the role,” Sabrina Man, a Chinese-Filipino former actress working in Hong Kong as a model, told AFP. Local media reviews this week of Wong’s portrayal have been largely favourable and skipped discussion of race.īut the decision to darken her skin - and the casting choice itself - have sparked criticism, particularly among the city’s Filipino population. Photo: lamkingching via Instagram screenshot. Video: Hong Kong TVB drama ignites 'brownface' row with Filipina role - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP Closeįranchesca Wong.
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