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Originally posted by mulattogyrl
I already said I'm not offended by the caricature because from the artist's point of view, that's how he looked when he was young. Unfortunately, it's a stereotype of Asians, which is why some people are upset.
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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!!!!!
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