Line #54 Main/AsianStoreOwner


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9	->''"Koreans tend to only have two basic facial expressions. It's either very calm and stoic and serene or GET OUT OF MY STORE!"''
10	-->-- '''Creator/MargaretCho'''
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12	Asian characters have a tendency to be shown as the owners of a convenience store or local market in works. They will frequently be coded as recent immigrants who speak a form of pidgin English (like AsianSpeekeeEngrish and StereotypicalSouthAsianEnglish) and employ their [[FamilyBusiness large family in every position at the store]], even if they legally aren't allowed to. For those few Asian characters who get proper characterization, it will typically be that of the FunnyForeigner who dishes out some ''classic'' AsianRudeness.
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14	A TropeInAggregate based on the TruthInTelevision reality that many grocery stores and corner shops in North America, UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}, UsefulNotes/NewZealand, and the UK are owned by Asian immigrants and their families. The specific ethnicity differs depending on which country of origin the work takes place in, reflecting the different trends in immigration these countries experienced. In the US, South Asians (particularly Indian) and East Asians (Chinese and Korean, especially) will be the store owners. Similar can be said for the UK, though West Asians (what Americans would typically refer to as Middle Easterners) are also very common, along with Pakistanis. In TheWestern, Chinese shopowners are common, because in the US, many Chinese immigrants were sent to the West to build the Transcontinental Railroad that connected the eastern and western parts of the country. [[note]]About ''90%'' of workers on the western part of the railroad [[https://americanhistory.si.edu/american-enterprise/new-perspectives/forgotten-workers were Chinese]].[[/note]] After work was finished some were able to stay and live in the US, finding work as [[ChineseLaunderer launderers]] and store owners.
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16	Typically, however, these characters' ethnicity goes without specification or are mishmashed into a hodgepodge of "[[InterchangeableAsianCultures vaguely Asian]]," as they are rarely a main or even a supporting character, but a bit role in the background. Indeed, part of what makes this trope meaningful is the severe lack of representation of Asian people in Western media in general, making this particular depiction stand out. So as a media trope, any Asian character who owns a grocery or convenience store counts.
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18	This is a trope that only makes sense in the context of "Western" media and depictions of "Western" countries, where Asian characters are few and far between despite making up a sizable chunk of the population. This means that most {{Anime}} and {{Manga}} examples likely do not count, as those are often explicitly set in Japan or in other worlds entirely.
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20	SubTrope of EthnicMenialLabor. Compare ChineseLaunderer.
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27	* A Creator/CartoonNetwork [[https://youtu.be/Pzth7hcueTs promo]] features a Japanese-American convenience store owner who tells [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone]] and other Creator/CartoonNetwork characters that he cannot serve them due to the state's [[DressCode "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service]] policy.
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31	* One skit by Creator/TheCapitolSteps had a character proclaim "If you do not stop making fun of Pakistani people, we will be forced to do something drastic. We will close every 7-Eleven in your country!!"
32	* One of Creator/MargaretCho's early routines began with her saying "Hi, my name is Margaret Cho and I'm Korean. But I don't, like, own a store or anything." Slightly subverted in that her parents ''did'' own a bookstore in San Francisco when she was a child.
33	* In a very early skit, Creator/JeffFoxworthy pondered whether the Middle East has Americans working in their 7-Elevens.
34	* Creator/BernardManning would ask if there were Asians in attendance at his shows. If there were, he'd ask who was minding the shop.
35	* A recurring sketch of [[Series/MindOfMencia Carlos Mencia]] has him portraying an Indian convenience store owner who routinely insulted his customers. In another sketch, he is hosting the racial stereotype Olympics and the final round is a tie-breaker between the black and Hispanic contestants. The event is who is the better looter and for added hilarity, he asks the Asian contestant to pretend to be one of these yelling "Why you take?" in a stereotypical accent as the other two contestants grab their stuff and run.
36	* Creator/RussellPeters, a comedian who specializes in exploiting and making fun of cultural stereotypes, has used this trope several times, most notably his "Be a Man!" bit.
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40	* While the equivalent Swedish cliché would be the Middle-Eastern shopowner (specifically Turkish), Per-Albin Singh in ''Bacon&Ägg'' and other comics in the same {{Verse}} is clearly South Asian. (He changed his first name when he moved to Sweden to fit in better but didn't want to change his surname.) His shop is always open, 24 hours a day, despite him being the only employee, but he waves questions away with vague mentioning of mysterious Oriental powers. [[spoiler: He has an identical twin-brother who co-owns the shop, but happens to be in the country illegally. They take turns staffing it.]]
41	* ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'' has Mr. Patel, the turbaned and ever-smiling owner of "Patel's 24-Hour Nanomart", where Eight Ace gets his beer from. He seems a nice guy, although some might look askance at someone so willing to sell booze to an obvious alcoholic.
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45	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', given that the Lee family temple is run as a business and contains a gift shop, Ming falls into this trope. When Mei and Ming catch a bunch of teens spraying graffiti on a temple's wall they chase them away swinging brooms.
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49	* The Asian-owned convenience store that's attacked by skinheads in ''Film/AmericanHistoryX''. Apparently, it used to be white-owned but the owner went out of business and it was bought by Korean immigrants, who staffed it with mostly Hispanic workers for cheaper pay. This inspires the ire of the skinheads to attack it.
50	* Creator/BifNaked plays one in the Canadian film ''Film/TheBoysClub''.
51	* The Iranian man Farhad in ''Film/{{Crash}}'' owns a convenience store, and buys [[ChekhovsGun a gun]] for self-defense after it gets robbed and sprayed with racist graffiti in the middle of the night.
52	* ''Film/DickTracy'' (1990) shows the gangster Ribs Mocca extorting money from a Chinese shop owner when he is arrested by Tracy.
53	* The paranoid Asian store owners in ''Film/DontBeAMenaceToSouthCentralWhileDrinkingYourJuiceInTheHood'' follow the black protagonists around suspiciously [[{{Profiling}} while ignoring the nice-looking white customer]] who's busy robbing them blind.
54	* An Asian shopkeeper in ''Film/TheDoomGeneration'' gets his head blown off during a shootout and remains alive for a few days. Yeah, it's an odd movie.
55	* The Korean shop owner from ''Film/DoTheRightThing''. He's able to fend off the angry black mob that torches the Italian pizzeria by claiming that he's "black too". This was inspired by a RealLife story mentioned in ''The Autobiography of Malcolm X''. During the Harlem riot of 1935, a convenience store was spared looting and burning when the Asian owners hung a sign in the window saying that they were colored too. The irony is that the Korean shop owner really ''is'' more racist than the Italian restaurant owner.
56	* In ''Film/FallingDown'', Will Foster encounters a Korean liquor store owner who gouges his customers and has no sympathy for his plight. After getting beat up and his store wrecked, the Korean man is shown to be a little more human than his interactions with Foster would first suggest.
57	* The movie ''Film/{{Friday}}'' features a Chinese store owner randomly rising from the counter with a grin on his face once Craig and Smokey enter the store. The store has a sign reading "Black Owned" that can be seen before we see him, and that he's dressed very urban.
58	* ''Franchise/{{Gremlins}}'': Mr. Wing is your stereotypical mystical store owner who looks a bit frightening, judges you harshly, and refuses to sell anything if he thinks you aren't ready to handle it. Deconstructed to a degree in the first film, with Mr. Wing's grandson badgering him that his persnickety attitude has turned the store into a money pit, which is the reason why he sells Gizmo to Randall behind his grandfather's back, [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom making him responsible for all of the mayhem that follows]].
59	* Used in the movie ''Film/ItCouldHappenToYou'', where Nicolas Cage's cop character realizes that [[spoiler:a robbery is taking place because one of the normally overly work-obsessed Asian store owners isn't present]].
60	* A Vietnamese shop owner in ''Film/{{The Ladykillers\|2004}}'' turns out to be a brutal former North Vietnamese general who is willing to join the heist and even murder the lady of the title. [[spoiler:His stereotypical chain-smoking ultimately proves to be his downfall.]]
61	* There are a couple of Asian shop owners in the opening scene of ''Film/LoadedWeapon1''. They helped in the shoot-out, then verbally abused Luger for it.
62	* The convenience store from ''Film/MalibusMostWanted'', which "B-rad" (Brad) is forced to rob. It turns out the store gets robbed all the time, so he (and his wife and kid) are prepared and armed to the teeth.
63	-->'''Brad "B-Rad G" Gluckman:''' Y'all never been robbed?\
64	'''Asian store owner:''' Sure. Last week was 54 time. But they were cool. No gun to head, never scream. You know, good people.
65	* ''Film/MenaceIISociety'', which starts with the protagonist and [[HairTriggerTemper his friend]] being treated with such suspicion and rudeness by an Asian store owner and his wife that he ends up shooting them both.
66	* The opening conversation for ''Film/PulpFiction'' includes a lament about how this trope has made knocking over convenience stores nearly impossible, since many such store owners don't speak enough English to understand "Open the fucking register!" (Alternately, the store owners are Jewish, in which case their family has owned the store for generations, and they're naturally quite defensive of it.)
67	* In ''Film/RomperStomper'', a group of skinheads are enraged when they learn that their local watering hole has been bought out by a Vietnamese-Australian businessman. This leads to an epic clash between the skinheads and the local Vietnamese population.
68	* In ''Film/RumbleInTheBronx'', Creator/JackieChan's character's uncle starts out as one before selling his store to an Asian woman. Given that it sells Chinese-style conveniences, this makes sense.
69	* ''Film/TrainingDay'' features a quick scene where Denzel Washington's character chases a black hoodlum through a Korean shop and asks the owners which way he went in Korean.
70	* In a nontypical example, ''Film/{{Tremors}}'' takes place in a rural Nevada community with a general store owned by the only Asian around.
71	* Both versions of ''Film/TrueGrit'' feature the Chinese Grocer who smokes an opium pipe and rents a back room to Rooster.
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75	* In the mystery novel ''Literature/NineDragons'', murder victim John Li was found shot to death in his own store. He was an immigrant from China who is very traditional. This caused some tension with his son Robert, who is American-born and doesn't want to pay the Triad anymore.
76	* At the beginning of ''Absolute Rage'', an illegal immigrant from a small East Asian ethnic group operates a store in New York's Chinatown when he is threatened by a Latino robber. The store owner kills him, cuts off his head, and displays it in front of his store as a warning. Needless to say, this gets him arrested. The owner is essentially adopted the Chinese community afterward and a race war between Latinos and Chinese nearly breaks out. The protagonist, New York's chief prosecutor, has to deal with the mess. (No, that's not the main plot.)
77	* ''Literature/BadNewsBallet'' has Chinese Hi Lo, the owner of the gang's LocalHangout Hi Lo's Pizza and Chinese Food to Go (situated right across from the Deerfield Academy of Dance).
78	%%* The Chinese store owner in John Steinbeck's ''Literature/CanneryRow''.
79	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Mr Gorriff from ''Literature/{{Jingo}}''. He's Klatchian, but he fits the British variation of the archetype, as Klatch parodies India as well as Arabia and Turkey in this story. Indeed, Klatch seems to be generic "foreign" as far as Ankh-Morpork is concerned. He even [[ShopliftAndDie keeps a crossbow under the counter]] although [[ReliablyUnreliableGuns it's unreliable]]. In fact, Vimes thinks the only way a person could reliably hurt someone with it was by using it as a club.
80	* In ''Literature/GoodOmens'', Mr Rajit runs Rajit's Newsagents and Video Rental on the ground floor of the building that also contains the Witchfinder Army headquarters (i.e. Witchfinder-Sergeant Shadwell's flat). Shadwell, whose paranoia about witches easily shifts into regular bigotry, suspects him of being a voodoo practitioner, despite Newt pointing out they don't ''have'' voodoo in Bangladesh.
81	* In Creator/TomClancy's ''Literature/JackRyan ''novels, Carol Zimmer, an immigrant from Laos, becomes one of these. After her husband's death, Jack Ryan puts together a small corporation and uses various accounting tricks to purchase Mrs. Zimmer her own convenience store tax-free. He also uses a good part of his personal fortune to start a trust in order to provide for her seven children's college educations, something he promised her husband that he would do after he was killed toward the end of ''Literature/ClearAndPresentDanger''. She's notable for playing straight the usual stereotype in some ways (having slightly broken English and being a typical [[EducationMama education obsessed Asian mom]], though neither are treated as bad things), but she's also notable for otherwise proving to simply be a good-hearted HappilyAdopted {{Eagleland}}er who just wants to run a store and provide for her family. The arrangement comes back to haunt him in ''Literature/ExecutiveOrders'' when his political opponents attempt to use it as evidence he's hiding an affair.
82	* In the first ''Literature/JoeSixsmith'' novel (a British mystery series), there is a South Asian convenience store owner who is victimized by the chavs in the neighborhood, and his store is eventually burnt down. [[spoiler: by him as part of an insurance scam / FramingTheGuiltyParty toward the chavs]].
83	* The Franchise/SherlockHolmes pastiche novel ''Literature/TheItalianSecretary'' has this trope operating in 1890s London, in the form of a Punjabi gentleman who runs a small general store almost opposite 221B Baker Street. Mrs. Hudson refuses to set foot in his shop — not on account of any racist feelings, but because she believes the premises to be haunted. Watson briefly interacts with him at the end when he goes there to buy some tobacco, and the Punjabi laments that the local superstition about his shop being haunted has kept a few potential customers away. The lament is triggered by Watson innocently commenting that he thought he saw a ghost; realising that he's upset the man, he buys more tobacco than he had originally intended to buy.
84	%%* Raj, a recurring character in the children's books written by Creator/DavidWalliams.
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88	* During Season 4 of ''Series/TwentyFour'', Jack is pursued by mercenaries in a blacked-out L.A. He seeks refuge in a sporting goods store, which turns out to be owned by two Arab men. They wind up helping Jack in the subsequent shootout. This presence was actually included due to criticism by Arab civil rights groups about the preponderance of sinister Arabs in Season 4.
89	%%* Han "Bryce" Lee, the diner owner in ''Series/TwoBrokeGirls''.
90	* ''Series/TheBisexual'': Deniz's parents own a store where she works, and she's often rude to customers (though granted they [[{{Jerkass}} sometimes deserve it]]). Unusually they're Turkish, so West Asian, not the South Asians more common for English depictions.
91	%%* Dev Alahan from ''Series/CoronationStreet'' owns D&S Corner Shop.
92	%% *Ramesh in ''Series/FagsMagsAndBags'', both played by Sanjeev Kholi.
93	* Mrs. Kim from ''Series/GilmoreGirls''. Notably, the "store" is also her house. She sells antique furniture out of it and it's consistently a mess.
94	* Like all Asian tropes, parodied in ''Series/GoodnessGraciousMe'', when the token white guy on the board of the Indian Broadcasting Company asks why white people can't play shopkeepers.
95	%%* Mr. Park in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''.
96	* In ''Series/HowToBeIndie'', Indie's best friend is Abi Flores: a Filipina whose parents have owned the Happy Breezy Food Hut since she was 5 years old.
97	* In the ''Series/{{JAG}}'' episode "Wedding Bell Blues", Harm goes to the dry cleaner to get his Dress Whites uniform back in time for Bud’s wedding but it has been mixed up with a police uniform from another customer. The Indian owner will only help Harm locate the other customer if he agrees to take his daughter on a date.
98	* ''Series/KimsConvenience'' stars the Kims, a Korean family who own the titular convenience store in Canada. The two owners are Korean immigrants Mr and Mrs Kim, and their Canadian-born daughter in college also helps out (with her father adamant about her inheriting the store). The married couple has a (realistic) case of AsianSpeekeeEngrish, and Mr Kim in particular can come off as [[AsianRudeness cranky]] and obsessive with his store, but they otherwise make an effort to get along with their customers and the regulars in return do appear to genuinely like the Kims.
99	* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'':
100	** A recurring character is Iqbal, who was running the store on the day that Earl got the winning lottery ticket. In early episodes, he speaks no English and needs Patty to translate for him, though he does seem to be picking up the language in later episodes. He is shown to be a CovertPervert: he watched an orgy in a phone booth and is a frequent client of Patty the Daytime Hooker. However, it's not known whether Iqbal actually ''owns'' that convenience store, or just works there.
101	** Two other such unnamed characters were seen in an early episode where Earl is teaching ESL classes to make up for making fun of people's accents. Earl is seen at the store with his friend Ralph, who wants them to get back to their old stealing and mayhem-causing ways, but Earl doesn't want his students to see that. All they can say in English is "[[TitleDrop My Name is Earl]]."
102	%%* The Chinese family that owns the store in ''Series/RobsonArms''.
103	* Though not seen yet, on ''Series/{{Selfie}}'', Korean John Cho says his parents own a Buca Di Beppo (Italian restaurant), playing with the obvious Asian people own an Asian restaurant gag.
104	* Featured in both the [[Series/ShamelessUK original UK]] and [[Series/ShamelessUS American remake]] of ''Shameless'', but subverted in that the owner of the store, Kash, is mild-mannered and reluctant to use violence while his wife is a perfect embodiment of the stereotype.
105	* Navid Harrid played and his ([[TheFaceless always speaking from offscreen]]) wife Meena in ''Series/StillGame'' run a corner shop in Craiglang, played by Sanjeev Kholi (Navid) voiced by Shamshad Akhtar (Meena). Muslim, Meena only speaks Hindi and Navid typically translates for her (though she is subtitled and is shown to be a DeadpanSnarker). Navid sometimes gets caught up in Jack, Victor and Winston's shenanigans.
106	* In the episode "Appointment in Samarra" of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Dean gets to be a GrimReaper for a day. His first assignment brings him to a store owned by an Asian guy, in the middle of a robbery. The robber threatens to [[KickTheDog kill the owner's son]] if he doesn't comply, and when he bends to pick up the money the owner takes a gun under the drawer and shoots him. Dean then lets the robber agonize a little before finally "reaping" him.
107	-->'''Robber:''' Why?\
108	'''Dean:''' Mostly because you're a dick. Enjoy [[{{Hell}} the ride down]], pal. Trust me -- sauna gets hot.
109	* One of the missing people in a ''Series/WithoutATrace'' was the daughter of a husband and wife pair of these.
110	* In ''Series/YoungSheldon'', his best friend Tam's family are refugees from communist Vietnam and run a convenience store.
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114	* "You own a Store" by Music/AnalCunt is about one of these, which the narrator screams racial slurs and insults at.
115	* British band Music/{{Cornershop}} (led by Tjinder Singh) was named in mockery of the Asian Store Owner stereotype in the UK.
116	* Music/IceCube's "Black Korea" is a particularly controversial example.
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120	* The music video for Dan Seals' 1989 country hit "They Rage On" featured an Asian store owner; he was the father of a teenage girl who falls in love with a white boy. The store is vandalized, and the white boy, the Asian girl and the girl's family are the subject of hateful attacks in what on the surface appears to be a typical small town.
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124	* Alan from ''Series/SesameStreet'' owns Hooper's store but otherwise shows no elements of the stereotype.
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128	* ''[[http://www.indianink.co.nz/krishnans_dairy.php Krishnan's Dairy]]'' by UsefulNotes/NewZealand actor/playwright Jacob Rajan is from the viewpoint of an Asian Store Owner.
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132	* ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'': The owners of the three Yum Yum Markets, Mr. Oh and Stan, are of Oriental descent.
133	* While entering convenience or liquor stores in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', the cashier will almost always be South or East Asian.
134	-->''Get the fucking out!"\
135	"Shoplifters will be persecuted!"\
136	[[MemeticMutation (when you point your weapon at them) "Oh shit, not good!"]]
137	* Pretty much the only Asian character in ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' is a shopkeeper whose one scene involves someone trying to rob his store while he firmly refuses to hand over the money.
138	* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry1InTheLandOfTheLoungeLizards'' features a spectacular example at the convenience store.
139	-->''Ya we got lubbers!''
140	* ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'' has an old Chinese/Japanese 'man' really A.I., who, likely, owned the tea house, that was used in a training simulation.
141	* ''VideoGame/Postal2'' has Habib, a Middle Eastern, as the shopkeeper of the Lucky Ganesh. You are tasked to go to him to buy a carton of milk. If you try to steal it, Habib will immediately lock down the store and try to shoot you down. Not only that, but he also has a group of terrorists headquartered upstairs who will attack you upon running into them. Luckily, you are playing as [[PersonOfMassDestruction Dude]], so you can take them out.
142	* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'' all have Stockwell the shopkeeper, who averts the series' [[{{Mukokuseki}} usual character designs]] by being clearly Chinese (or from a FantasyCounterpartCulture thereof). In the Japanese scripts, he has a FunnyForeigner accent, though this was dropped from international versions.
143	%%* ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest4OpenSeason'' had one.
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146	[[folder:Web Comics]]
147	* Akbar's Malt Shop in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' which is of course owned by a guy named Akbar. He seems pretty even-tempered, though.
148	%%* Mr. Bak Mei and Ms Haseguk of ''Webcomic/TalesOfAGayAsian''.
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152	* ''Website/{{Springhole}}'': In "[[https://www.springhole.net/writing/tips-for-writing-and-maintaining-a-horror-atmosphere.htm Tips for Writing and Maintaining a Horror Atmosphere]]", guest writer Alexis Feynman points out that a shop lady in Chinatown would have more important things to do than punishing obnoxious teenagers for being obnoxious.
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156	* ''WebVideo/WhereTheBearsAre'': The clerk at the Stockroom seems to fit... at first. [[spoiler:It turns out that she is a {{Dominatrix}} who manhandles the bears and chides Nelson for falling for the Asian stereotype act.]]
157	* The Corneeshop Show on Youtube centres British Bangladeshi Malik and his Chinese employee Tony Chang trying to run his fathers Cornershop.
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161	* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Roger talks Stan into a robbery spree to pay off a bet; the second one they go for has Roger get his ass kicked in the background by a recognizably Asian pair of store owners.
162	* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': In "No Beads No Business", Indian-accent elephant Raj becomes head of the camp store. He continues to have this position in later episodes in the series.
163	* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'', when Dante and Randal reminisce about a time they worked at a Quick Stop in India as part of an exchange program:
164	-->'''Customer:''' Why are you convenience store guys always American? ''Speak Hindi!''
165	* Uncle Chan from ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' is the owner of Uncle's Rare Finds, an antique shop in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood that deals in old and valuable artifacts from other countries. Uncle is also quite a [[AsianRudeness grouchy]] [[GrumpyOldMan geezer]] with little patience, who must occasionally use his own (or his nephew Jackie's / employee Tohru's) martial arts skills to defend the store from their enemies.
166	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Minoriteam}}'' features Nonstop, a walking Indian stereotype who is immune to all small arms fire. The name is a pun on "quick stop", or convenience store, and his invulnerability references the fact that they get robbed at gunpoint a lot.
167	%%* Mr. Bang in ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill''.
168	* ''WesternAnimation/PurnoDePurno'' has Dr. Ha Chiu, a Chinese man who runs an Asian store selling various potion-like substances. A few episodes revolved around Purno, the main character, taking one of the substances from the store and suffering its effects for the duration of the episode.
169	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
170	** Apu isn't as aggressive as his East-Asian counterparts, but his first wife will always be the Kwik-E-Mart. He's taken multiple bullets for it, to the point that he reminisces about "the sweet kiss of hot lead" fondly. Though Apu generally seems to be willing to cooperate with potential robbers, it simply appears that they are just fond of shooting him (and he always seems to come out of it well). It's gotten to the extent where he and Snake have something approaching marriage counseling as Snake has taken to robbing Apu's brother instead. He's developed very specific opinions concerning the rope he's tied up with, including quality, knots, and materials. In one episode ("Much Apu About Something"), he even comes to butt heads with his nephew (who has decided to rebuild the Kwik-E-Mart to conform to modern standards) who decries Apu as a [[StopBeingStereotypical stereotype]] while Apu [[{{Hypocrite}} points out that his nephew is also a stereotype]] (that of the hipster) and the only difference between them is that [[AtLeastIAdmitIt Apu doesn't go out of his way to deny who he is]].
171	** In "Homer the Heretic", Apu leaves Jamshed, a small child, in charge of the store when he has to be elsewhere. Jamshed quickly pulls a shotgun larger than himself on [[GangOfBullies Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney]].
172	** Other Asian businesspeople on ''The Simpsons'' include a Thai restaurant owner [[InterchangeableAsianCultures (who teaches Bart to be a ninja)]], the staff of the Happy Sumo Japanese restaurant (including Akira, who has a second job teaching karate classes), an elderly couple who run a Chinese restaurant and play up stereotypes to appeal to customers, and a creepy old Chinese man in an alley who sells toys that turn out to be demonically possessed (in a Halloween special). Shelbyville is also shown to have its own version of the Kwik-E-Mart called the Speed-E-Mart, which is run by an East-Asian man in "The Lemon of Troy".
173	* Tuong Lu Kim from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', though he's more of a restaurant owner. [[spoiler:[[SplitPersonality And he's not really Asian.]]]]
174	* The ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures" segment "Sticky Feathers Duck" from "Best o' Plucky Duck Day" features a convenience store run by an Indian man that Plucky wants to steal a chocolate bar from.
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