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* AndStarring: With Ken Jeong and Creator/MichelleYeoh.
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* AndStarring: With Ken Jeong Creator/KenJeong and Creator/MichelleYeoh.
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* TheScrounger: Oliver, despite being in his words one of the "poorer relations" and the "Rainbow Sheep" is still accepted and fairly close to the rest of his family mainly because he found a niche as this. Whatever anyone in his family wants he is able to get it for them.
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* TheScrounger: Oliver, despite being in his words one of the "poorer relations" and the "Rainbow Sheep" is still accepted and fairly close to the rest of his family mainly because he found a niche as this. Whatever anyone in his family wants he is wants, he's able to get acquire it for them.them, including a rare Cambodian gong.
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** If the films follow the plot of the novels (and the names of the sequels imply they will), [[spoiler:Rachel's DisappearedDad is going to be a big plot point going forward. Specifically, her biological father is the reason the second instalment is named ''China Rich Girlfriend'']].
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** If the films follow the plot of the novels (and the names of the sequels imply they will), [[spoiler:Rachel's DisappearedDad is going to be a big plot point going forward. Specifically, her biological father is the reason the second instalment installment is named ''China Rich Girlfriend'']].
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* GenerationalTrauma: Rachel faces conflict from Eleanor Young, her fiancé Nick's influential and overbearing mother, who refuses to accept her because she's too "American" and unfit to be part of the prestigious family. It's later revealed that Eleanor faced her own criticisms from her mother-in-law Shang Su Yi who also didn't approve of her because of her own background.
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* DontCreateAMartyr: Nonlethal, civilian variant. [[spoiler: Rachel confronted Eleanor invoking this and ILetYouWin. If Eleanor still won't approve Rachel's relationship with Nick, then Rachel will walk out voluntarily. But with that, Eleanor will ''forever'' be reminded that it was Rachel, whom she considered a lowly commoner, who enabled her family to be happy in the future.]]
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* DontCreateAMartyr: Nonlethal, civilian variant. [[spoiler: Rachel confronted Eleanor invoking this and ILetYouWin. If Eleanor still won't approve Rachel's relationship with Nick, then Rachel will walk out voluntarily. But with that, Eleanor will ''forever'' be reminded that it was Rachel, whom she considered a lowly commoner, who enabled her family to be happy in the future.]]
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* OutsideInsideSlur: Nick's posh Asian family and social circle disapproves of Rachel not only for being middle-class, but also for being American -- yellow on the outside and white on the inside. A banana, as Peik Lin succinctly puts it.
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* OutsideInsideSlur: Nick's posh Asian family and social circle disapproves of Rachel not only for being middle-class, but also for being American -- yellow they don't think she shares their values. As Eleanor puts it, she's not ''kaki lang''[[note]]A Hokkien phrase meaning "our kind of people[[/note]]. And as Peik Lin succinctly puts it, a "yellow on the outside and white on the inside. A banana, as Peik Lin succinctly puts it. inside" banana.
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* OutsideInsideSlur: Nick's posh Asian family and social circle disapproves of Rachel not only for being middle-class, but also for being American -- yellow on the outside and white on the inside. A banana, as Peik Lin succinctly puts it.
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* BillionaireWristband: The uber-wealthy Astrid gifts her husband Michael a vintage Rolex Daytona Paul Newman (worth hundreds of thousands of dollars) to help him look the part of a CEO.
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* ReactionShot: When Peik Lin tells the Gohs that her boyfriend's name is Nick Young, the camera cuts to each member of the family reacting to the news.
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* NewsTravelsFast: An influencer spots billionaire heir Nick Young at a restaurant with his girlfriend and snaps a photo. It spreads like wildfire in the next few minutes and goes viral in Singapore. Nick's mother hears about it and calls him ''before Nick and Rachel have even finished eating''.
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* HeirloomEngagementRing: Eleanor's emerald ring was purchased by her husband after his mother, who didn't approve of Eleanor, refused to let him have the family's heirloom ring. [[spoiler:The second time Nick proposes to Rachel it's with Eleanor's emerald ring, signifying that she's changed her mind and is accepting Rachel into the family.]]
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* AsianAirhead: Araminta is nice, beautiful, exuberant, and so consumed by "wedding brain" that she completely fails to notice the bullying that Rachel was getting.[[note]]In interviews, Sonoya Mizuno played her by combining traits of a "Chelsea girl" with a cheerleader.[[/note]]
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** Araminta is the wealthy heiress to a prominent resort chain. Despite this and her general AsianAirhead tendencies, she's still a cheerful, generous girl who openly befriends Rachel and never objects to her background.
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** Araminta is the wealthy heiress to a prominent resort chain. Despite this and her [[TheDitz general AsianAirhead tendencies, ditzy tendencies]], she's still a cheerful, generous girl who openly befriends Rachel and never objects to her background.
