Finally, an entertaining chain Facebook status movement has managed to grab my attention. Instead of the usual “support-this-cause-that-only-assholes-would-be-against” and the random spam (thanks a lot Mob Wars) I usually find on my friend feed, this week is:
Doppelgänger week on Facebook; change your profile picture to some one famous (actor, musician, athlete, etc.) you have been told you look like. After you update your profile with your twin or switched at birth photo then cut/paste this to your status.
To see who my friends think they look like has been a real delight. Of course the self-annointed resemblances ranges from the eerily similar to totally self-flattering variety, I noticed that very few of my Asian friends are partaking in the fun.
Unfortunately, this is just illustrating the thin list of famous (Asian-American) actors, musicians, and celebrities for us to Doppelgänger-out on.
Otherwise we’d just give in to the “you all look alike” stereotype by all having either Lucy Liu, Yan-Can-Cook, and Bruce Lee as our profile pictures.
Instead, I thought it’d be funner to just make a mockery of this Doppelgänger week.
First picture I found after googling "asian caricature"
The original crew from The Fast And The Furious - Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster – reunited in the fourth installment and broke the record for films opening in April. Fast & Furious is estimated to have pulled in $72.5 million this weekend, easily pushing past Monsters vs. Aliens to become the number one movie in theaters.
