[starang21]

Originally posted by AlphaFrog
The problem is that your point of view requires that a person actually find out the whole story before they start getting all offended, and people don't want to do that.

I remember in college we did Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Mikado", which required the entire cast to "dress yellowface". We had a person write a letter to the school paper about us being racist for doing "yellowface". The problem comes when you actually do research on the show, at the time it was written in England, Japanese was a "fad". Many British had the screens and fans in their homes as decoration. The show even includes a joke where the entire chorus sings "The Japanese equivilant for Here! Here! Here!". So, it was making fun of someone - the British. They were making fun of their own culture.

Oh, and later in that person's letter, they included - if you had done Porgy & Bess, you wouldn't have dressed in "Blackface". Ummm...yes, we would of, Porgy & Bess would NOT make sense with WHITE people!!!!!

your perspective on what asians find offensive is irrelevant. who are you to tell people what they should be offended about considering the fact that this is an old stereotype/caricature that was originated long ago.