Crazy rich Hollywood has poor taste in depicting Asians

I had hoped that the movie Crazy Rich Asians, which opens in theaters in the mainland on Friday, would be a satire about the decadent lives of those who inherit astonishing amounts of wealth without ever doing anything to earn it. It's not. It is a celebration of the lifestyles of young men and women who have no purpose in life except trying to look stylish and who think nothing of taking a private jet to fly from Singapore to Shanghai just to buy a million-dollar-plus bauble.

This movie has been widely praised by the politically-correct chattering class in the United States for being the first movie in twenty years to feature an all-Asian cast. (They don't count movies actually made in Asian countries.) The argument is that Asians will feel empowered by seeing someone like themselves in a movie. But, I'm confident that none of the hardworking people I know in China would see anything of themselves in the shallow, spoiled, pointless money-worshippers depicted in this movie.

I'm amazed that the film has not been criticized for its glorification of great wealth and careless, extravagant spending. What happened to the outrage against income inequality? America's fashionable posers only pretend to care about that.