Re: why are there so few asian anime characters?

"Peter H. Granzeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>
> >> Compare with cartoons made in the western world where it is common to
> >> use characters that look like the people who live where the cartoon
> >> was made.
> >
> >Because US cartoons tend to be overly PC where we have to have
> >an interracial cast.  So everyone is represented.
>
> Pre-50's US cartoons frequently had stereotype characters--Africans
> with bit Ubangi lips and a bone through the nose, for instance--which
> most modern Americans would find in extremely poor taste.  Racial
> humor was common in America through the first half of the 20th
> century, and cartoons followed suit.

Especially those WWII cartoons.