To Western sensibilities, some Asian cultures, particularly Chinese, can seem very impolite. They talk loudly and sharply, and come across as bossy and impatient. This actually stems fromsimple culture clashing. It's not to say rude Asian people don't exist, but the kind of behavior we associate as rudeness comes from factors related to culture and language.

For one thing, the way Asian people talk is mainly an unfortunate result of applying the tone and meter of their own languages to languages where that kind of speaking is the way rude people talk.

For another thing, it's a matter of differing cultural notions of what is rude and what isn't.Chinese Etiquette can be as foreign as the language, and might even be confused for being anEtiquette Nazi.

While usuallyPlayed for Laughs in fiction, this can even bePlayed for Drama, especially among children of Asian immigrants,who get the confusion of growing up among these clashing cultures.

Might even causeStop Being Stereotypical. Can also overlap withAsian Store Owner as well as withArrogant Kung Fu Guy.

French Jerk is a common Occidental equivalent.

ContrastJapanese Politeness (although Japanese people are not always portrayed as polite),Inscrutable Oriental.

Anime and Manga

• In the English version ofHetalia, China, comes to a meeting of the Allies very late. He states that he was cooking and that

China: ...My cultural arrogance means I am neither sorry nor remorseful.

Film

• The woman at the Chinese take out drive-thru inDude, Where's My Car?, who keeps asking "And then?"over and over again.

Live-Action TV

• Played with onLas Vegas, with Polly the Korean manicurist. She's rude as anything, not because she's unusually bossy or callous, but because she doesn't hesitate to prattle on and on about her sex life in mixed company.

Recorded and Stand Up Comedy

• Stand-up comicJohn Pinnette (who is quite fat) had a bit about being thrown out of an all-you-can-eat Chinese Buffet:

You been herefour hour!!! You go home now!!!

• • The line is reused in oneRobot Chickenskit whereIron Man's metal-ness marching through metal tunnels has clearly wornThe Mandarin's patience thin.
• Margaret Cho does an impression of her mother that relies on this trope but tends to be decidedly affectionate. Most of her mother's brashness comes from trouble with the English Language (the only one Margaret speaks) and urgent concern for her daughter. In her rush toMama Bearing, some things just come out wrong.

Video Games

• Kanae Tsuji, a Japanese doctor fromTrauma Center: New Blood, is based on this type of character in American dramas.

Web Comics

• Tales of a Gay Asian: Mr Bak-mei reminisces being saved by Americans, only to hurl racial slurs when he sees they are black. Not only the old angry Asian man, but Sengchou the blonde transsexual, despite her whitewashed appearance is weirded out by tanning and doesn't give eye contact to whites. However, compared to Bak-mei it is mostly ego related, not racial.

Western Animation

• A minorThe Simpsons character Cookie Kwan, #1 on the West Side (although she also works on the East Side... but stay out of the West Side!). She's been a minor recurring character ever since this appearance.
  • Another example has Homer about to beat up the chefs in a sushi restaurant when they shout a greeting at him in Japanese. He's mollified when Akira tells him they just thanked him for coming, and shouts back (in English),"YOU'RE WELCOME!!!"
• InFamily Guy, Stewie recalls aMall Santa who was Asian and like this.
  • Mr. Washee Washee, the Griffins' dry cleaner who Peter fights with.
• InAmerican Dad Francine's adoptive parents are like this to Stan (in a rare reversal of Stan being the victim of the flamingJerkassery instead of giving it), but they are the ones that step up and rescue Stan from a burning building.
• Kahn and his family fromKing of the Hill, who are Laotian.
  • Except in Kahn's case it's not simply a clash of cultures; he reallyis aJerkass who openly insults his neighbors by calling them hillbillies. Although in later seasons he mellows out significantly and even becomes friends with Hank.
  • Kahn's daughter, Connie, averts this trope. She is very polite, and is frequently ashamed by her parents' rudeness.
• Jackie Chan Adventures: Uncle is usually this, even to his family, but there are occasions when he is extremely polite.
• Courage the Cowardly Dog: Di Lung, Chinese inventor of Mecha Courage, better known for the following one-liner: "Watch where you're going, you fool!"
• Amy Wong inFuturama, and her parents even more so.

Real Life

• Alexandra Wallace posteda video complaining about Asians being rude in a library. The girl's "ching chong ting tong" line, makeher come across as the rude one.
• InReal Life, there'sEdsel Ford Fong, a waiter at San Francisco's Sam Wo restaurant who was famous for his rudeness.

• Trope
• Asian Rudeness
• Characters As Device
• National Stereotyping Tropes
• Race Tropes