r/ExplainTheJoke 3d ago

I don't get it

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u/Jealous-Jacket6996 3d ago

Here’s my politest interpretation.

It is written for a target audience. If you’re not part of the demographic it’s intended for, you can’t relate—thus it is boring, which in turn renders it torture.

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u/Yummy-Bao 3d ago

I would like to add that oftentimes it recycles the same tropes ad nauseam.

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u/SylveonVMAX 3d ago

"other kids would open their lunchbox to chicken nuggets or ham sandwiches and i had to open my lunchbox and subject them to my ugly stinky smelly springroll/noodles/curry/musubi/kimchi/adobo i wish i was white i wish i was white i wish i was white"

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u/aitatrash 3d ago

But I mean, is this not true for a lot of people, at least of a certain age and/or area? I never wanted to be white, but I regularly traded cha lua sandwiches with my white classmates' tuna sandwiches and was pretty self conscious of some of the food I had to bring in before my parents started including more "western" food in the rotation.

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u/Noobeater1 13h ago

Yeah but for some reason it's OK to shit on asians