Re: why are there so few asian anime characters?

"Peter H. Granzeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:11:18 GMT, "Ethan Hammond"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> 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.

There were also the WWII Bugs Bunny cartoons that portrayed the Japanese as
having thick classes, squinty eyes and buck teeth.  They don't show those
anymore, for some reason.  I guess that's kinda like the big fat black woman
in Tom and Jerry who used to talk like Shirley Q Liquor and now talks like
an old granny.