I don’t hide the fact that I take somewhat of a sadistic pleasure in occasionally mocking the Chinese. I’m Korean, and it’s something that many of all us Asian cultures do amongst each other, often ignoring what the rest of the world thinks about it. When the day is over, I have no objection against the Chinese or any other race; I couldn’t really care less about ethnicities as long as the quality of persons are acceptable to me.

However, something I also enjoy, is spotting sheep behavior/hypocrisy and calling it when I see it, even if it means inadvertently defending a Chinese guy. Basically, long story short, a Chinese guy, Arthur Chu, has been tearing up Jeopardy!, and this has been a problem for many fans of the show, as well as the eventual sheep that jump on a trending story.

Many of the detractors bemoan the way Chu is playing the game, because he is defying the typical meta of gaining control of the board, and clearing out categories systematically, one at a time. Instead, Chu is blatantly hopping around the categories, only pursuing the questions in the lower rows, which are all of higher values, but more importantly where the Daily Doubles are most often located. But it’s what he does with the Daily Doubles which apparently is drawing the ire of many Jeopardy! enthusiasts.

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