Sixteen Candles (1. IMDb. Trivia. This movie has gotten a great deal of criticism from some of its Asian- American viewers for its racial insensitivity, and its negative impact on their upbringings. In a 2. 00. 8 National Public Radio piece titled "Long Duk Dong: Last of the Hollywood Stereotypes?", reporter Alison Mac. Adam interviewed Eric Nakamura, a co- founder of Giant Robot Magazine, which covers Asian and Asian American pop culture.

Nakamura said, "Every single Asian dude who went to high school or junior high during the era of John Hughes' movies was called 'Donger'. I mean, if you're being called 'Long Duk Dong', you're comic relief amongst a sea of people unlike you, and you're also being portrayed as a non- (American) person. You're being portrayed as a guy who just came off a boat, and who's out of control.

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It's like every bad stereotype possible loaded into one character. Just the gong that, you know, appears behind them magically every time he's on the screen, gong, you know, that's awful. I mean, I feel bad for (actor Gedde Watanabe) in the end, because he's had to live with the fact that all these Asian- American men hate him." Watanabe was also interviewed for the piece, and he recounted numerous incidents in which people have publicly expressed their anger at him for playing a role that so widely disseminated negative stereotypes of Asian men.

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