“It’s hard getting respect when you’re eleven,” gripes Eddie Huang (Hudson Yang) in the opening scenes of “Fresh Off the Boat,” a new comedy that debuts Wednesday on ABC.

He’s a hip-hop-loving city kid uprooted from his family home in Washington DC’s Chinatown to the hothouse suburban sprawl of Orlando, Fla. — and feels out-of-place in a community where everyone is cheerfully white (“The only white people we saw in DC were the tourists who got lost,” Eddie says).

Even when his hip-hop T-shirt wins him a coveted seat at the white kids’ table in the school cafeteria, he is ultimately cast aside when he eats his lunch of homemade Chinese cuisine — and they don’t like the way it smells.

The Huang family wants to fit in with an America that eats nothing but processed food; Eddie drags his mother (Constance Wu) to the “hospital”-like supermarket to buy Lunchables, so the white kids will let him stay at their schoolroom table.

His father, Louis (Randall Park, who played Kim Jong-un in the cursed “Interview” movie), buys a strip-mall steakhouse and convinces himself business will pick up if he hires a “nice, happy white face like Bill Pullman” to manage it. Alarmingly, Eddie’s mother joins a group of rollerblading white Stepford Wives so she can say she belongs.

ABC had a great success in the fall with “Black-ish,” a comedy whose family questioned whether it had lost its cultural identity after achieving the mainstream success the Huangs seek on “Fresh Off the Boat.”

Based on Huang’s memoir of the same name, this series is written by Nahnatchka Khan (who gave us that piece of cubic zirconium, “The B in Apartment 23”), and the first episode makes you wonder where the show will go. Putting a knock on white suburbia is hardly the most innovative comedic idea. Having established the exaggerated and predictable weirdness of all white people, “Fresh Off the Boat” seems to have run through its one topic — and one joke.

In a New York magazine essay, Huang admitted he regretted selling his book to the network (even when the check cleared?). His experience on the show’s set was dispiriting, he wrote, as he saw the finer cultural points of his narrative sanded down into traditional, hackneyed dialogue in an effort to get white people to like a show with so many Asian characters.

The show’s view of Caucasians is certainly not going to entice anyone to stick around for Episode 2.