Re: why are there so few asian anime characters?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
   Ethan Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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.

Some of that was deliberate propaganda, of course. It's easy to play to a
prejudice under those circumstances. Indeed, it's a problem I've seen
still over here, and that's given that the war ended nearly 60 years ago.
The prejudices of that time survive as parents pass them on to their
children.

Mind you, some of that stuff, stereotypes aside, was pretty good, and it's
a shame to see it being cut to shreds in the name of modern political
correctness. Obviously some folk have learned little from the lessons of
Stalin's airbrush habits...

"Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it."

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