The range of personalities exhibited by the parents of Asian American cast members challenges viewers to look at love outside Western forms of affection, experts say.
Link copiedIn one episode of “Love Is Blind,” the Netflix reality dating show in which people get engaged sight unseen, contestant Natalie Lee speaks to her father, Don, just before her wedding ceremony.
The range of personalities exhibited by several of the parents of Asian cast members allow for a more nuanced understanding of parenting, simultaneously challenging viewers to look at parental love outside squarely Western forms of affection, experts said. And it’s critical, because good parenting does not exist solely within the confines of the white sitcom family.
Experts said that this style of parenting, associated with more verbal affirmations of care, is often fully accepted as the most conventional example of love. But Lee’s mother, Nan, who’s eventually won over, is at first visibly concerned and perhaps a bit disappointed about the swift, reality show engagement.
At the end of the series, Vempati’s mother, GV, gives viewers one last emotional glimpse at another profoundly moving relationship after her daughter declares at the altar, before families and friends, that instead of marrying Chatterjee she has chosen herself. Through tears, GV tells Vempati that she’s proud. It’s a pure example of unconditional love, Ocampo said, and Vempati's emotional well-being took precedence.
“Hollywood thinks, ‘Oh, let’s make this universal.’ And by eliminating cultural references, they really make it more of a default whiteness. They’re representing that you can just plug in anybody,” Ramón added.
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