traditional racist caricatures of Chinese people
Is it racist to depict a citizen of a country in that country’s traditional national garb? Simplified to cartoon form for children?
I guarantee no actual Chinese are offended by this.
Is it racist to depict a citizen of a country in that country’s traditional national garb? Simplified to cartoon form for children?
I guarantee no actual Chinese are offended by this.
Chinese-born or American-born? My guess is that American-born Chinese would be more likely to be offended, because they've been acculturated to the American culture around this kind of offense, and a lot of it is reasoning by analogy to the black experience (e.g. if similar caricatures of blacks are offensive to them due to centuries of pervasive racism, then other groups should be able to claim offense at caricatures of them)
I remember reading something years ago about an Asian-American frat (I think some pledge died during a hazing ritual). Part of the pledge process was to read a bunch of stuff about anti-Asian racism in order to build a shared identity.
Born in Europe actually, so I don't know where I fall on that spectrum, haha. But probably closer to the US than to China.