'Asian women, they have these double barriers ... You have to break the glass ceiling and after that the bamboo ceiling is waiting for you.'
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"I ran and threw the ball back to the [other] players and they said, 'Get your hands off our ball you ugly Jap.' And I said, 'I’m not Japanese.'"Joy Hopwood moved from Singapore to Australia as a child.More than three decades on, Hopwood says while Everything Everywhere All At Once portrays a Chinese-American family, its success has a broader, global impact for anyone who identifies as Asian and it's a sign that things are changing.
Quan, 51, was born in what was then known as Saigon, in Vietnam, and moved to the US as a child refugee. Melbourne University associate professor in Korean studies, Dr Jay Song, said Yeoh's Oscars win was a huge feat. "Often Korean pop culture is portrayed as very sort of, childish ... for teenage girls, so it's created a sort of 'second class' music industry."
Dr Song says it's important to portray Asian characters, "as autonomous able bodies and high performers in every sector of society".
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