Betty Brown: “Really, Just Change Your Name” – “… calling Betty Brown racist for this is ridiculous and a cheap shot. It looks to me like she’s making an honest attempt to try to educate herself on what’s a tricky topic.” – Kai, from the comments
What Yao Ming Not Dunking Tells Us About Asian Culture – “…he isn’t aggressive enough. He passes too often. He doesn’t demand the ball when the game is on the line. He doesn’t dominate a game the way Shaq does. And … this explanation is that it’s usually followed up with, he isn’t aggressive enough because he’s Chinese.”
Joe: Yep. You can just be Asian.. especially in a cartoon. Since he looks Asian and he’s American.. and nothing else. He mentions no Asian countries. … Hence Asian-American.
kbok: it may seem shocking to other people that kids don’t believe their elders when hearing about khmer rouge atrocities, but if your mother told you that soldiers shot at her, pushing her off a mountain and into landmine paths...
Dan: CSLI, I think my previous comment stated that I “hope” not “should”. It was not meant to belittle anyone and yes I can imagine just like most people, adopted or not. Though the effect will not be the same as...
csli: Yes, Dan. A lot of things do “go on in China”, not all of them bad”. But try to imagine what “China” means to an eleven-year old girl, surrounded by doting white Americans, who knows that she is only...
JC: This guy knows next to nothing about Otaku culture and dare to write about Japanese games. It’s just another ignorant white person making self-righteous judgment calls against another part of Asian culture. He’s just...