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Who cares what Chinese MEN think of a white woman wearing a Chinese style dress? The opinion of Chinese WOMEN might matter more to me. However again, I know that the (Chinese) women in my family don't care at all. And not only that, there's no dress like that in any of our closets, and in fact you'd have to PAY me to wear that awful dress. That red dress is not at all me.
BTW in the early 1980's, Iggy Pop played a show in Providence, RI. I was standing in the front of the audience and... he sang the song "China Girl" to ME!!! And I was dressed like a British punk rocker that night.
BTW I hated the visuals of the David Bowie music video of that song. Shrug.
Also hated the way Mickey Rooney played Audrey Hepburn's character's downstairs Japanese neighbor in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Did the Japanese community ever protest that awful portrayal of a Japanese man? Yuck.
Also hated Eddie Murphy as Mr. Wong in his Norbit movie.
But none of that is really worth a twitter/social media wars or shaming over those portrayals. I just quietly not buy tickets to Eddie Murphy movies. There's plenty of better movies to watch. The Mickey Rooney role was filmed in a greatly different era of movie making. Eddie Murphy should have known better, but I certainly have never been his target audience, although I was a big fan of the early SNL shows.
yeah also what about that song “turning Japanese “ could definitely see people being rightly offended by that.
Who cares what Chinese MEN think of a white woman wearing a Chinese style dress? The opinion of Chinese WOMEN might matter more to me. However again, I know that the (Chinese) women in my family don't care at all. And not only that, there's no dress like that in any of our closets, and in fact you'd have to PAY me to wear that awful dress. That red dress is not at all me.
BTW in the early 1980's, Iggy Pop played a show in Providence, RI. I was standing in the front of the audience and... he sang the song "China Girl" to ME!!! And I was dressed like a British punk rocker that night.
BTW I hated the visuals of the David Bowie music video of that song. Shrug.
Also hated the way Mickey Rooney played Audrey Hepburn's character's downstairs Japanese neighbor in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Did the Japanese community ever protest that awful portrayal of a Japanese man? Yuck.
Also hated Eddie Murphy as Mr. Wong in his Norbit movie.
But none of that is really worth a twitter/social media wars or shaming over those portrayals. I just quietly not buy tickets to Eddie Murphy movies. There's plenty of better movies to watch. The Mickey Rooney role was filmed in a greatly different era of movie making. Eddie Murphy should have known better, but I certainly have never been his target audience, although I was a big fan of the early SNL shows.
I get what you're saying, but that Chinese guy has a right to his opinion.
And, as I said earlier, my half-Chinese daughter did not care for the group pose and felt that she could see how it might come across as offensive (but, wasn't particularly in an uproar over it, either).
So, it is one of those "depends on who you ask" things.
She also doesn't like the Mickey Rooney thing. Or the Eddie Murphy thing. She's fine with the David Bowie thing, though.
All of us are different in what we may or may not find offensive.
I do think she knew it would spark controversy, and that is why she posted it.
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Perhaps she could have avoided all this by not posting it for the ENTIRE world to comment on, though?
Personal responsibility and all that.
I doubt her prom was ruined at all.
I totally agree with you regarding the attention wh*ring aspect of making one's social media pages public. When you stand on a soapbox and share your life with everyone, ye shall reap what ye sowed.
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