Don t Expect Simu Liu to Appear on the Kim s Convenience Spinoff: I Adamantly Refuse
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When it was announced on March 8 that
Kim s Conveniencewould be ending after five seasons, the cast and fans alike couldn t believe the news. At the time, star Simu Liu, who played Jung Kim on the show, wrote in a lengthy statement on Twitter about how heartbroken he was and that he was proud of all that we accomplished. Now, with the arrival of the show s fifth and final season on Netflix, the 32-year-old actor is speaking out about the show s untimely cancellation and the news of its upcoming spinoff based on the show s one main non-Asian character.
Witnesses who appeared before the Commons special committee on Canada-China relations this week said they were troubled by comments Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made about racism comments that left Conservatives fuming.
Throughout modern history, media portrayals and racist profiling have presented Asian women as hypersexual and submissive, or desexualized and invisible.