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Friendship Dynamics and Social Discomfort
Rachel Chu
This weekend was supposed to be mani-pedis, cocktails served in pineapples. This definitely wasn't on the menu. Why would Araminta even have friends like them? They're so mean.
[as they bury the gutted fish from her hotel room]
Astrid Young Teo
Well, you grow up your whole lives together, you make excuses for people. Specially the morons.
[as they fill in the hole]
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Self-Identity and Relationship Expectations
Astrid Young Teo
It was never my job to make you feel like a man. I can't make you something you're not.
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Unconventional Comparison in Social Commentary
Peik Lin Goh
You kind of look like a slutty Ebola virus.
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Cultural Perception and Identity in Society
Peik Lin Goh
She just thinks you're some like unrefined banana. Yellow on the outside, and white on the inside.
[to Rachel]
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Surprising airport features and unexpected feelings
Rachel Chu
Wow, I can't believe this airport has a butterfly garden, and a movie theater. ] just salmonella and despair.
[in [[w:Singapore Changi Airport|Singapore Changi Airport; [w:John F. Kennedy International Airport|JFK's]
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Cultural Identity and Personal Challenges in Humor
Rachel Chu
I'm so Chinese I'm an econ professor with lactose intolerance.
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Understanding Old Money vs. New Money Dynamics
Peik Lin Goh
Rachel, these people aren't just rich, okay. They're crazy rich. Look, there's new money all over Asia. We got the Beijing Billionaires, the Taiwan Tycoons. But the Young family, they're old money rich. They had money when they left China in the 1800s. And they went all the way down here. Not there. Here. They came to Singapore when there was nothing but jungle and pig farmers. There was a snake here, eating an apple. You know what I mean? And they built all of this. Now, they're the landlords of the most expensive city in the world. They're so posh and snobby, it's snoshy!
[pointing to a globe]
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Unexpected Cocktail Dress Discovery
Rachel Chu
You have a cocktail dress in your trunk?
[Incredulous]
Peik Lin Goh
I'm not an animal, Rachel.
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Planning an Adventure Beyond the City
Nick Young
So, what about us taking an adventure east?
Rachel Chu
You wanna get pork buns in the East Village. That's what it is, isn't it?
[thinking for a minute]
Nick Young
I was actually thinking of further east.
Rachel Chu
Like Queens?
Nick Young
Like Singapore, for spring break? Colin's wedding. We've been dating for over a year now, and I think it's about time people met my beautiful girlfriend. Come on, I'm Colin's best man. Don't you wanna see where I grew up? Meet my family, my Ah Ma?
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Family First Over Personal Ambitions
Eleanor Young
I chose to help my husband run a business and to raise a family. For me, it was a privilege. But for you, you may think it's old-fashioned. It's nice you appreciate this house and us being here together wrapping dumplings. But all this doesn't just happen. It's because we know to put family first, instead of chasing one's passion.
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Respect for Integrity Over Wealth
Peik Lin Goh
Good for you. Walking away from Nick and his family's fat-ass property portfolio. You have no one, no net worth, but you have integrity. That's why I respect you.
[to Rachel]
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Lessons in Strategy and Negotiation
Rachel Chu
Thanks for meeting me here.
Rachel Chu
Don't worry about them. They're half-deaf and they only speak ].
[[w:Hokkien|Hokkien]
Rachel Chu
My mom taught me how to play. She told me ] would teach me important life skills: Negotiation. Strategy. Cooperation.
[[w:mahjong|mahjong]
Eleanor Young
You asked me here, I assume it's not for a Mahjong lesson. ]. My mother taught me too.
[Shows her tiles; [w:Mahjong#Melds|Pong]
Rachel Chu
I know Nick told you the truth about my mom, but you didn't like me the second I got here. Why is that?
Eleanor Young
There is a Hokkien phrase kaki lang'. It means: our own kind of people, and you're not our own kind.
Rachel Chu
Because I'm not rich? Because I didn't go to a British boarding school, or wasn't born into a wealthy family?
Eleanor Young
You're a foreigner. American – and all Americans think about is their own happiness.
Rachel Chu
Don't you want Nick to be happy?
Eleanor Young
It's an illusion. We understand how to build things that last. Something you know nothing about.
Rachel Chu
You don't know me.
Eleanor Young
I know you're not what Nick needs.
Rachel Chu
Well he proposed to me yesterday. He said he'd walk away from his family and from you for good. Don't worry, I turned him down.
[pauses; pauses; pauses]
Eleanor Young
Only a fool folds a winning hand.
[sighs]
Rachel Chu
Mm no. There's no winning. You made sure of that. Cause if Nick chose me, he would lose his family. And if he chose his family, he might spend the rest of his life resenting you.
Eleanor Young
So you chose for him...
[after a long pause]
Rachel Chu
I'm not leaving because I'm scared, or because I think I'm not enough – because maybe for the first time in my life, I know I am. I just love Nick so much, I don't want him to lose his mom again. So I just wanted you to know: that one day – when he marries another lucky girl who is enough for you, and you're playing with your grandkids while the Tan Hua's are blooming, and the birds are chirping – that it was because of me: a poor, raised by a single mother, low class, immigrant nobody.
[Choking back tears]
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Wealth Perception in Crazy Rich Asians
Rachel Chu
So your family is, like, rich?
Nick Young
We're comfortable.
Rachel Chu
That is exactly what a super-rich person would say.
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Different Perspectives on Wealth and Relationships
Nick Young
When we first met, you had no idea who I was, who my family were. You didn't care!
Rachel Chu
Yeah, I don't care about that stupid stuff.
Nick Young
Well, exactly. You are so different from all of the women that I grew up with.
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Secrets of the Past Uncovered
Rachel Chu
Why didn't you tell me about my father?
Kerry Chu
My husband wasn't a good man. He hurt me. But an old schoolmate of mine helped me through things and we fell in love and I got pregnant with his baby, that's you. I was so afraid my husband would find out and kill us both, so I just took you and I ran to America.
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Inspiration from Unlikely Sources
Neenah Goh
We were inspired by the ] in ].
[Showing off her luxurious home; [w:Hall of Mirrors|Hall of Mirrors; [w:Versaillles|Versaillles]
Peik Lin Goh
And ]'s bathroom.
[softly, to Rachel; [Donald Trump]
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The Tradition of Guilt in Parenting
Astrid Young Teo
God forbid we lose the ancient Chinese tradition of guilting your children.
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Standing Up to Family Expectations
Wye Mun Goh
Let me get this straight. You both went to the same school. Yet someone came back with a degree that's useful, and the other one came back as Asian Ellen.
Oliver T'sien
It's about time somebody stood up to Auntie Eleanor. But you, not me, oh god. She can't ever know I was here.
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Desire for Privacy Amid Family Expectations
Rachel Chu
So, if you have all this family there, why are we staying in a hotel? Aren't good Chinese sons supposed to stay with their parents?
Nick Young
Well, because A: I'm not that good a son, and B: I just want you to myself, just for a bit.
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Moms and Chanel No. 5 Perception
Peik Lin Goh
Chinese sons think their moms fart Chanel No. 5.
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Misunderstandings and Accusations in Relationships
Rachel Chu
I thought I was here to meet your family, go to your best friend's wedding, eat some good food. Instead, I feel like I'm a villain in a soap opera who's plotting to steal your family fortune.
Nick Young
What happened?
Rachel Chu
I mean, I met Amanda. She told me that everyone here thinks that I'm the evil person that prevented you from moving back to Singapore last year but, when I didn't even know you were supposed to come home.
Nick Young
You have every reason to be upset.
Rachel Chu
I'm not done yet! There was also the gutted, bloody fish that Araminta's friends left for me in my hotel room on my bed next to the words Catch this, you gold-digging bitch'... written in big fat serial-killer letters.
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A Proposal with Unforeseen Challenges
Rachel Chu
Nick, what are you doing here?
[on the plane]
Nick Young
I'm flying back to New York with you.
Rachel Chu
Don't make this harder than it already is.
Nick Young
I always imagined what me proposing to you would be like. You know what? I had it all planned out.
Passenger
Right behind you.
Nick Young
Don't mind me. I'd bring you to my favorite spot on the island. There's a hidden trail that I used to go to as a child. And there's a cove there that opens up to this beautiful lake.
Passenger
Sorry, dude.
[bumps into Nick]
Nick Young
Give me a second, coming through. When the sun hits the horizon, I get down on one knee. And the rest of the world would fall away. Because it would just be you and... Because it's just you... Sorry, I can help you with that. Right, stay there. Yeah. You too? Watch your fingers. Everybody okay? Cause I just need 30 seconds with this woman. Thank you. Coming through. Sorry. I know this is a far throw from a hidden paradise. But wherever you are in the world, that's where I belong. But I... Rachel Chu... Will you marry me? And make me the happiest man in this world?
[to a passenger struggling with her bag; to Rachel; to a passenger; climbs across seats; kneels; holds out his mother's ring]
Kerry Chu
Yes! Yes! She will marry you!
Rachel Chu
Yes! I love you.
Nick Young
I love you, too.
Rachel Chu
This is gonna be some flight back to New York.
Nick Young
Well, I was actually thinking about staying one more night.
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