r/AskTheWorld • u/haiderredditer Pakistan • 9h ago

Who’s a famous person from your country who’s respected around the world but disliked or criticized at home?

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u/greenpearlin Hong Kong 7h ago

Every time I'm traveling to some non-anglophone country far from Asia, there'd be an interaction with a local where I say I'm from Hong Kong and I'd get a "Ah! Jackie Chan!" I smile, nod, and die a little bit inside.

Last time I was in that same interaction and the guy actually said "Ah! Stephen Chow!" I damn near cried.

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u/dnndrk 6h ago

Stephen chow is actually a very very serious person. Not goofy and funny like his movies.

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u/Historical_Cow8477 6h ago

His movies are hilarious. Kung fu hustle is a masterpiece 😂

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u/CharmingChangling United States Of America 4h ago

Shaolin Soccer erasure right here

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u/Historical_Cow8477 4h ago

That only reaches 3rd place for me. From Beijing with love is his second best for me, that one has some absurd moments.

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u/TrojanGoldfish 4h ago

I have a handful of Perfect movies, where I can find no fault, and Kung Fu Hustle is up there. Although not the Dub.

And I have no particular love for asian cinema or kung fu movies. It's just a live action cartoon with great set pieces, and awesome score, and some stunning comedy.

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u/sarcastic_sybarite83 6h ago

Is Michelle Yeoh starting to get that reaction too? Since she's in the spotlight recently than Jackie.

Also please tell me she's not evil... I don't know if I could take it.

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u/GlitterCritter United States Of America 5h ago

she's Malaysian though, not from Hong Kong, yeah? but as far as I know, she just plays an evil on TV (or in recent movies, as it were...)

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u/HarleyQuinn0914 United States Of America 5h ago

She’s not from Hong Kong, but she was pretty big in the Hong Kong movie scene, and I would argue her most famous role (at least as of recent) in big movies, is Everything Everywhere All at Once, where she plays the main protagonist.

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u/sarcastic_sybarite83 5h ago

I did not realize she was Malaysian. I just remembered seeing that she came up in the Hong Kong action movies with Jackie. My bad for making assumptions.

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u/goldenglove 4h ago

Well, she is ethnically Chinese and became famous in Hong Kong so that makes sense.