Oh I totally agree with you 100%. I think it's very important to show how things were like back then. In fact I'm one of the few people who ( I am Asian) believes that things SHOULD be left the way they are. For example I don't think that they should leave out the N word when it comes to literature like what has been used in Mark Twain and in other literature that uses racist words. It just takes away from the authenticity of the story in the context of what it was written in.
And the same goes for the cartoons. I say they should leave it the way it is because it's so hilariously outdated, and personally doesn't offend me. In fact that dragon lady thing just makes me laugh. I don't get offended by it because I certainly know that I'm not defined by my race or racial slurs.
One interesting thing too is that in Texas, there was this road called JAP ROAD, and there was a hot dog place called CHINK'S in Philadelphia. People got all up in arms about it and said it should be taken down or changed. I said it shouldn't because it is a reminder of what used to be.
I don't know if you're aware of the Japanese Internment during World War II, after Pearl Harbor was bombed the US then rounded up 120,000 loyal Japanese American citizens including my relatives and ancestors,and placed in concentration camps primarily in the Western US. My dad saved this antique poster that called my relatives ' ENEMY ALIEN JAPS'and other paperwork, and we saved it because it is an important historical reminder of what was said then. We also have an old newspaper that lists jobs according to color. In other words, the shittiest jobs were reserved for 'negroes, spics, and persons of alien oriental descent' and 'white people' got the best jobs.
So, I agree with you completely about that kind of thing and it sort of makes me mad when they actually delete or 'blank out' the racist words.
And they kept the Jap Road sign there. I was probably one of the few Japanese Americans who wrote into the Pacific Citizen, the Japanese American Citizen's League paper, to tell them I felt the sign was a necessary SIGN OF THE TIMES, so to speak.
It WAS a bit weird though LOL to call the hot dog stand in Philadelphia ' Chink's' LOL as there were virtually no Chinese in that neck of the woods and certainly the ones there didn't eat hot dogs. Not to my knowledge anyways. But they changed the damn name!!
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Date: 2013-09-11 06:15 pm (UTC)And the same goes for the cartoons. I say they should leave it the way it is because it's so hilariously outdated, and personally doesn't offend me. In fact that dragon lady thing just makes me laugh. I don't get offended by it because I certainly know that I'm not defined by my race or racial slurs.
One interesting thing too is that in Texas, there was this road called JAP ROAD, and there was a hot dog place called CHINK'S in Philadelphia. People got all up in arms about it and said it should be taken down or changed. I said it shouldn't because it is a reminder of what used to be.
I don't know if you're aware of the Japanese Internment during World War II, after Pearl Harbor was bombed the US then rounded up 120,000 loyal Japanese American citizens including my relatives and ancestors,and placed in concentration camps primarily in the Western US. My dad saved this antique poster that called my relatives ' ENEMY ALIEN JAPS'and other paperwork, and we saved it because it is an important historical reminder of what was said then. We also have an old newspaper that lists jobs according to color. In other words, the shittiest jobs were reserved for 'negroes, spics, and persons of alien oriental descent' and 'white people' got the best jobs.
So, I agree with you completely about that kind of thing and it sort of makes me mad when they actually delete or 'blank out' the racist words.
And they kept the Jap Road sign there. I was probably one of the few Japanese Americans who wrote into the Pacific Citizen, the Japanese American Citizen's League paper, to tell them I felt the sign was a necessary SIGN OF THE TIMES, so to speak.
It WAS a bit weird though LOL to call the hot dog stand in Philadelphia ' Chink's' LOL as there were virtually no Chinese in that neck of the woods and certainly the ones there didn't eat hot dogs. Not to my knowledge anyways. But they changed the damn name!!