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"
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Doppelgänger can only apply to those ethnic groups that dominate popular culture.
I saw the status updates and profile changes and the only person I could come up with was Jackie Chan.
And I’d be willing to bet that 90+% of the Asian male Doppelgänger participants on facebook had the same celebrity cross their mind.
It could have got more specific if people included famous actors in Asian cinema and not just those who work in American movies. But then less people would know who they were