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Originally Posted by murraypaul
It probably would have been in a book aimed at the Chinese market at the time.
Someone eating with chopsticks would have been remarkable to the market the book was aimed at, at the time it was published.
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Well, yes. But you can’t expect a kid to understand that. In any case, the illustration, heavily exaggerated and stereotypical, is not something that would be tolerated today.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I would be offended if the chopsticks where changed to a fork. I'm not offended by the chopsticks.
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Well, then, you make the case. As a white person (who has not been marginalized by society for his race), you’d be offended by a fork? Then shouldn’t an Asian even more so be offended by the chopsticks?
None of this is about “what bothers me.” It’s about what’s problematic to present to children and what it says about race and attitudes toward race.