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November 12, 2009

Huh? Really? This is so wrong, on several levels.... First, it's been years since I've had to explain to anyone that "People are 'Asian,' rugs are "Oriental.'" Second, Bo Dietl, a Fox pundit, actually pulls his eyes back on Don Imus' show to mimic how he says Katie Couric's eyes make her look "Chinese." Third, he conflates "American" and "Caucasian" so that you're only American if you're white. It's ignorant -- no, stoopid -- and disgusting, and as Angry Asian Man points out, "that's racist!"
February 4, 2009

Singer and actress Miley Cyrus with friends in a racist "chink-eye" pose. The photo is making the rounds on the Internet. From Angry Asian Man: Miley Cyrus, the super popular teen pop star for her Hannah Montana song-and-dance act (she's also the daughter of country singer Billy Ray "Achy Breaky Heart" Cyrus), is shown with a group of friends in a photo making the rounds online, pulling back her eyes in a "chinky" or "slanty-eye" pose. It's clearly a racial stereotype, the same kind of stupidity practiced in photos last year by the Spanish Olympic basketball team and the Spanish national tennis team team. What kind of role model is that for young girls? What's a young Asian American girl supposed to think when she sees the photo? That she deserves to be the butt of racial stereotypes? Or a young European American girl? That it's perfectly fine to make fun of people who don't look like you?