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The actress in the TVB show can step in and out of brown skin without having to experience the racial stereotypes people hold against those with brown skin. The types of roles written by TVB about FDWs, and their casting choices, are not only inaccurate and damaging, they also contribute to the poor treatment of FDWs, and ultimately how people in Hong Kong view migrant workers. Some have had to endure poor working conditions and treatment from their employers, which we rarely ever see in the media or on TV. These people have left their families and their homes to work in countries far away and take care of children who are not theirs. These are only two of the very many stories of mistreatment and abuse of FDWs in Hong Kong. We hear terrible stories like in the case of Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, who suffered violent physical abuse from her employer and who was not paid her wages and not allowed her statutory holidays. Forced to sleep on the streets, these FDWs have been left to their devices with no help, and nowhere to go. File photo: Supplied.Īs we have seen and heard recently in the news, there have been reports of domestic workers who have requested shelter or medical help after testing positive for the coronavirus.
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Moreover, it dictates to the public how and what to think of people who have brown skin – that we don’t need to be taken seriously, that we are lesser than. They are encouraging mockery of Filipino people and by extension all and any ethnic non-Chinese people in Hong Kong. The Philippines has 7,640 islands and has 120 spoken languages and counting as of 2022.Īnd this is why the TVB issue is problematic not only in the donning of brownface but in the representation – or misrepresentation, rather – of Filipino people. In the first place, what is a Filipino accent? I couldn’t tell you. I have been made to speak in what the casting team thinks is a “Filipino” version of Cantonese, because they thought my Cantonese was “too good” to pass as a domestic worker. I have done an audition where the child that I, as the FDW, am looking after gets kidnapped because I was too engrossed by my mobile phone, again implying the same “careless” character trait that seems to always be written for FDW figures. I have done an audition where the scene calls for the Foreign Domestic Worker (FDW) to spill things on the floor in an act of carelessness. Every single casting has required me to play the role of a “clumsy” or “absent-minded” domestic worker, or something to that effect.
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Which brings me to my experiences auditioning for film and TV roles in Hong Kong. This act of brownface seen on TVB perpetuates the same ideas of supremacy and superiority we have seen time and again in the history of entertainment, as a way to assert dominance over minority groups by mocking and minimising everything that they are as a people to that of a caricature.
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Representation matters in Hong Kong: Why brownface in TVB drama is offensive - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP Close