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‘The Office’ actress criticises show’s “racist” portrayal of Asian-American women

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The Office actress Kat Ahn has criticised the show’s portrayal of Asian American women.Ahn starred in the hit sitcom as Amy in the season three episode ‘A Benihana Christmas’ and has since called the story arc “#problematic”.In the episode, Steve Carell’s character Michael Scott invites two Asian waitresses from a popular Japanese steakhouse (which he calls “Asian Hooters”) to the Dunder Mifflin Christmas party.Scott marks one of the two women with ink in order to tell them apart, and then turns up with two different Asian women.Ahn said in a TikTok video that she and another Asian American Actress were the “uglier versions” of the women who played the waitresses from Benihana.Things I Learned as an Asian American actress on the.

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