Tag Archives: Orientalism

Snowlipsism

Thanks to TZ and King for our internal discussion.

Here is a Fighting 44s koan that Xian wrote a while back: If a tree falls in the forest and there’s no White Man to hear it, did it really fall?

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The End of History and the Last Asian Man

Who's in the foreground, and what's the story?

A Canadian-Chinese Work of Orientalist White-Worshipping Glory

Orientalists–you people are everywhere.  Here I am, getting set in writing my piece for the Thymos Book Project, and you Orientalist Mofo’s have to lob another one in my direction.  I guess the upside is that you’re providing a good lead-in to my introduction of the Thymos Book Project–which will come as soon as I’m done with my first draft.  I’m sorry, but I’m not going to let your issues interfere with my work.

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David Carradine Dead

David Carradine

David Carradine

This is shocking.  Wow.  Out of nowhere. 

David Carradine was the actor assigned to the leading character in the TV show Kung Fu, a role that Bruce Lee invented but was denied since he, ironically, wasn’t White.  Since those days, David Carradine, with his slow moving Tai Chi, created a faux-Asian image that Americans bought like crazy.  Being White helped launch and solidify his career as a leading role and figure in Orientalist Asian American culture, most recently in Tarantino’s Kill Bill films.

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"What Color is That Baby?"

babies

(picture from here)

Bob Herbert writes a poignant Op-Ed about media coverage and race in today’s NY Times. 

“What color is that baby?” he asked.

A tremendous silence fell over the room. Everyone understood what he meant. If the baby was white, the chances were much better that the story was worth big play. It might be something to get excited about.

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