Over the past couple of decades, John Hughes' Sixteen Candles ... offensive." Long Duk Dong is an awkward, nerdy Chinese exchange student who communicates in broken English and American ...

"Sixteen Candles" actor Gedde Watanabe says it "didn't really occur" to him in 1984 that his character Long Duk Dong "was a stereotype." "It didn't really occur to me that it was a stereotype ...