The Psychology of Beef (Netflix) - Chapter 1
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 98 minutes
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00:00 Intro
03:11 Overall rating
04:54 Diversity within the show
16:15 Diversity outside of the show
25:42 Similar media
32:53 Countering stereotypes
41:55 OPP
44:10 Asian-American psychology
1:26:36 Microaggressions & character flaws
1:34:37 David Choe controversy & slurping noodles
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June 19, 2023
The Psychology In Seattle Podcast ®
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| 0:00.0 | So, Bruno, you remember doing an episode in which I talked about my Asian Dell test, |
| 0:05.3 | which is similar to the Beck Dell test, in which journalists, I believe by the name of Beck Dell, |
| 0:12.8 | propose a test for movies and TV shows about sexism, identify a movie in which you have |
| 0:19.8 | character, two women characters who are talking, who have names, they're not just anonymous characters |
| 0:25.0 | in the movie, and they're not talking about a man. And when she came up with this test, |
| 0:30.0 | you think, oh my god, really, I bet you hardly any movies pass this test or, you know, a |
| 0:36.3 | shockingly low percentage. And yeah, I mean, it's such a low bar, right? It just sounds ridiculous. |
| 0:42.5 | Let's talk about something else. Just two women who have character names in the movie, |
| 0:46.5 | and they're talking about something without a man being there, and they're not talking about a man. |
| 0:51.0 | So, I came up with the Asian Dell test. You came up with your Latino test, and I watched a TV show |
| 0:59.2 | called Beef on Netflix that not only passes, but surpasses my Asian Dell test. Let's get into it. |
| 1:06.6 | What do you say? Let's do it. This is the Psychology and Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. |
| 1:10.8 | I'm a therapist and a professor. My name is Alberto Castanilla, and I make shoes that you can |
| 1:15.4 | use to play tennis. So in this episode, we're going to talk about the Asianness of the TV show Beef, |
| 1:21.3 | and then we'll talk about the psychology. There's a lot of psychological concepts that I think are |
| 1:26.2 | explicit and implicit in the show that we'll get into. So I would say that this show, like I said, |
| 1:33.6 | receives the highest rating possible. I don't think there's a better show that passes the Asian |
| 1:38.8 | Dell test. And what is the Asian Dell test for me? Well, at the top of the list is that you have |
| 1:45.0 | one character in the top three characters that is Asian American, who doesn't have a foreign accent. |
| 1:53.1 | The character has an American English accent. The person is noticeably Asian American, |
| 1:58.0 | meaning that they're not half or quarter or something. Their character is characterized as being |
| 2:03.9 | from East Asian descent, and their parents also have an American accent. Because that's me. |
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