Goofy faces are still a threat!
“I’ve also been told there are some people upset about some pictures taken of me with friends making goofy faces! Well, I’m sorry if those people looked at those pics and took them wrong and out of context! In NO way was I making fun of any ethnicity! I was simply making a goofy face.”
Miley Cyrus in an official statement.
See? I have Asian friends!
Proud lesbian civil rights activist, philanthropist to children, and host of The View, Rosie O’Donnell had this to say about news broadcasts in China.
Send her a comment or a note on her website www.rosie.com.
Official Statement from her people is, “I certainly hope that one day they will be able to grasp her humor.”
Sorry, my bad.
This is a New York Times article (ironically named “Demolishing Stereotypes”) explaining why Korean-American actor John Cho is not Chinese, but “Asian-American”
“The Oriental” is a gross oversimplifying of Asian and Asian-American cultures which quite often leads to the confusion of completely distinct and unique identities. This extends back several hundred years when any imported good from Asia, or even faux-chonoiserie was given the title of “Oriental,” to be more marketable to a society obsessed with manifest destiny.
Believe it or not, you had a one in four chance of being born Chinese and an almost equal chance of being born Indian.
This is not some racist rag from the South telling people how to tell “Japs” from your “friends.” This is the venerable Time Magazine.
Printed in the midst of WWII, this delightful article is a reminder of how paranoid media coverage can make us forget who our friends and neighbors are.
After several offensive shirts, and a multi-million dollar discrimination lawsuit, Asian-Americans still continue to flock to Abercrombie & Fitch, directly seeking the retailer by name forgetting the racist and elitist attitude the company and its advertising represents.
This is how Abercrombie sees the Asian-American community, and minorities in general with their
