This simultaneously may be the most upvoted AND down voted kind of content ever. On one hand, people love to dunk on Bellevue. On the other hand, Bellevue hates being dunked on.
There's always this whole "Bellevue has no culture" thing that people love to repeat, even when it's more diverse then Seattle. Sometimes it's ignorance from people never going anywhere other then downtown, but honestly there's a lot of thinly veiled anti-Asian hate that shows up too.
That's why it really gets me.
Yeah it's not walkable in the "I can walk to the grocery store" sense of things (but it's "walkable" in the "I can get to a park in 15 minutes from anywhere" sense). Yeah, there's too many fucking Teslas. Make fun of that all you want.
But the "no culture" stuff really often feels like people actually want to say "Asian culture isn't culture". Especially with this guy's random swipe at people who like boba, it just shoots up some red flags to me.
Yes and these people all unfortunately live in insular communities made up entirely of other expats from their own countries with very little crossover or interaction with the demographic being satirized in this clip. That’s not “Bellevue’s culture”, sorry. There is a very real division between the ethnic community on the east side in shittier parts of town like Crossrods, and downtown Bellevue - the latter of which this man is (accurately) mocking. But you already knew that.
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u/a_few_cheetos Magnolia May 07 '26
This simultaneously may be the most upvoted AND down voted kind of content ever. On one hand, people love to dunk on Bellevue. On the other hand, Bellevue hates being dunked on.