White Arbitrage [Lester]
What do these have in common?
Le Colonial
Lucy Liu
Crustacean
Devon Aoki
Is it that they're sort of Asian? Yeah, close but not quite. Actually, each of these are examples of people or things that take advantage of "White Arbitrage."
White Arbitrage
white ar·bi·trage
n.
The resource investment in exoticism over actual taste, resulting in a discrepancy in resources spent to actual value and immediate monetary or social value to the exotic specimen
There are people who make their careers purely out of the fact that they are, in some way exotic (See: Asian), nullifying any actual value they have in order to take advantage of the inability of others to see their true worth.
At some level it's probably gratifying to be as hideous as Devon Aoki (aka Asian Goatse Face), snickering in bed every night about how she turned down syndrome and Celestial genes into 7-figures. Or how the head chef at Le Colonial (where I will be entertaining clients tonight) giggles for every $15 bowl of pho she serves. In the end, though, how must it feel to be that hideous girl that her mother wouldn't even set up or the owner of a restaurant that would get laughed out of Milpitas Square... knowing that without the blindness of wide-eyed strangers, they'd be just another no-name struggling to make it.
BIIIIAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAA!
Le Colonial
Lucy Liu
Crustacean
Devon Aoki
Is it that they're sort of Asian? Yeah, close but not quite. Actually, each of these are examples of people or things that take advantage of "White Arbitrage."
White Arbitrage
white ar·bi·trage
n.
The resource investment in exoticism over actual taste, resulting in a discrepancy in resources spent to actual value and immediate monetary or social value to the exotic specimen
There are people who make their careers purely out of the fact that they are, in some way exotic (See: Asian), nullifying any actual value they have in order to take advantage of the inability of others to see their true worth.
At some level it's probably gratifying to be as hideous as Devon Aoki (aka Asian Goatse Face), snickering in bed every night about how she turned down syndrome and Celestial genes into 7-figures. Or how the head chef at Le Colonial (where I will be entertaining clients tonight) giggles for every $15 bowl of pho she serves. In the end, though, how must it feel to be that hideous girl that her mother wouldn't even set up or the owner of a restaurant that would get laughed out of Milpitas Square... knowing that without the blindness of wide-eyed strangers, they'd be just another no-name struggling to make it.
BIIIIAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAA!
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