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Jeopardy Villain: Insurance Analyst and Cheating Chinx

jeopardy villain: It's featured in this year's Hot Docs Documentary Canadian International Festival launching April 27 in Toronto, according to Rabble. Arthur Chu, an insurance analyst from Cleveland, won almost US 300,000 on Jeopardy! in 2014 -- his haphazard style and forthright manner sparked intense emotions among viewers who called him a Jeopardy! villain and yes there is racism in that, a Tweet -- cheating chinx -- comes to mind . I admired his audacity, co-director Yu Gu writes to me in an email. And the film Who is Arthur Chu is testament in every way to that statement. I admire his courage to try to create a space for himself in a culture that has sought to erase him from the day he was born. I felt there weren't many films or stories that painted a portrait of an Asian-American person using all the colours available in the palette. Gu, based in Vancouver, tells rabble.ca that she was forced to examine her own immigrant background and the paternal ideals passed on to her through Asian cultures which often devalue women. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.