Turning Red teaches not to hide our less presentable parts
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Turning Red spoilers follow. As a child of immigrants, what moved me so much about Turning Red was that it has an explicitly Chinese-Canadian setting, but a plot that was not “Chinese,” if you will. The racial and ethnic experience of Mei, the 13-year-old protagonist, and her family, certainly mattered to the plot of the movie, but the movie is a coming-of-age story that we can all relate to.
Turning Red teaches not to hide our less presentable parts
Turning Red teaches not to hide our less…
Turning Red teaches not to hide our less presentable parts
Turning Red spoilers follow. As a child of immigrants, what moved me so much about Turning Red was that it has an explicitly Chinese-Canadian setting, but a plot that was not “Chinese,” if you will. The racial and ethnic experience of Mei, the 13-year-old protagonist, and her family, certainly mattered to the plot of the movie, but the movie is a coming-of-age story that we can all relate to.