Clint Eastwood's "Grand Torino" as an Allegory for the acceptance of Asian-Americans into Mayo culture

If you haven't seen Gran Torino, frick you go watch it. There's lots of fun racial slurs, a little moralizing, and all in all it's a good film for millenials and zoomers to see how compromise and communication is better than yelling when it comes to winning people over. From here on I will assume that anyone who is reading on has seen the film, or at least read the wikipedia plot synopsis so I'm not going to do a total rehash of what happens.

Clint Eastwood, his car (the eponymous Gran Turino) and Detroit are a stand in for mid-20th century white America. Clint is a Polack war veteran who flies the flag and keeps his yard picked up. His wife has died, his kids and grandkids are whiny, entitled shits, and all his white neighbors have left. This is obviously meant as a stand-in for White America. Detroit used to be an industrial hub, a symbol of American manufacturing power and now it's a shithole. White Americans used to be seen as industrious, hard-working, and powerful. But they have abandoned their birth right, and now want to put the olds out to pasture as well. Clint's kids and grandkids are a metaphor for the current and next generations. They don't really like the old people who made this country a world power, they just want the benefits (symbolized by the Gran Turino), while putting old fricks like Clint out to pasture in old folks homes.

Now Clint in this film is a Korean War vet, so he HATES Gooks. Probably because they tried to kill him a bunch. And he uses the language of someone who fought in Korea, and he uses it to his Asian neighbors' faces. Anyway, after the initial conflict with Toad the Asian Boy, he starts to actually interact with them. He puts the would-be car thief to work, and eventually comes to see that the little shit is actually pretty hard working, motivated, and respectful. He also finds that the Hmong (see Jungle Rat) community appreciates what he's doing, and has his back. He begins to see that he has more shared values with these Zipperheads than he does with his fellow whites.

The only whites that are worth a shit are a Polack priest and an Italian barber. This is important, because Southern and Eastern Yuros didn't use to be "white". Once upon a time only Anglos were in the club, and Irish, Italians, and other yurotrash had to earn their whiteness. What we see through the character of Toad, is the Asians earning their whiteness in the same way that the non-Anglos once did.

Some might say this movie is anti-racist, but that's a lie. There's like three black people in the whole movie and they try to r*pe the female protagonist (who isn't protected by her wigger friend). And they only back down because Clint pulls a 45 on them, which goes to show that when dealing with the Urban set you need to stay armed and not back down or they'll just take your shit.

Anyway across the film the Asian Boy slowly becomes stronger, and gets a construction job. Like a good American teen without prospects would do. The foreman is a Person of Potato, once again reinforcing that whiteness was earned by Micks through conforming to White American ideals.

In the end, Clint sacrifices himself to save the Swamp Rat community from their own gang problems, and then leaves his car to the kid he's been turning into a man the whole movie.

Ultimately his leaving of the Gran Torino to the kid is the crux of the film, that Asian-Americans are the true inheritors of the American dream. Gooks are industrious, community-focused, and respectful of their elders. They have the ideals of mid-Century white America, and they are the ones who most deserve to inherit that legacy.

Why is this relevant? Well, Asians are the fastest growing racial group in the US. White people are losing their shit about the US becoming a majority-minority country. How can they prevent this? It's not by having more kids, so they'll have to find another way and Clint gives the Mayos a path forward. The key is to integrate Asians, and make them White.

The fun thing is we see this happening in real time. Black-on-Yellow violence has driven a wedge between Asians and the rest of the minorities. Also the fight over racial bias against whites and asians in higher education has put Chinks and Cumskins on the same side again. Their values really do align for the most part, and it's a natural alliance. White teenage girls simp for K-pop stars, and white incel men all have yellow fever. And on the other side of the fence, most Asians are very much on team White People. Asian women love white men, and Asian men simp hard after mayo foids.

In the end it becomes obvious that Clint was prescient, and Asians will soon be considered White.