From my new movie review in Taki’s Magazine:
Crazy Conspicuous Consumption
by Steve SailerAugust 22, 2018
Crazy Rich Asians, Hollywood’s new romantic comedy about a Chinese-American young lady and her aristocratic Singaporean boyfriend attending a lavish high-society wedding, is widely praised for being “inclusive” and “diverse” because—follow me closely here—the cast is comprised almost exclusively of East Asians playing Singapore’s most snobbish Chinese billionaires.
…this current trend of racial solidarity celebration movies, such as last winter’s Black Panther, tends to be inherently conservative.
One difference between the two movies, however: While Wakanda and Singapore are both right-wing authoritarian utopias, Singapore actually exists.
Read the whole thing there.