My Sunday, from softball to ordering.
This is what the softball picnic throw the ball around and meet each other day looked like. My cousin Mike and Eugenia came later on. The field was taken, but we only had three people, so it became a sit and watch people play tennis, talk about the final four, and eat... That's Bill (he looks like he ate something sour) and Big J. We had pizza, supermarket chimichangas, and diet soda. I had to peel the cheese off of the Frankie and Johnnie's pizza, which is quite great.
Later on in the day, I drove by this... What's up with the tea pots? A lot of them. I had no idea, but this is one of those trippy people's homes where they just go off on one quirky thing to the max.
So the final stop and thought of the day is that, I'm doing the product ordering part of my last of things I want to do. It's sunday night, sort of late, nearly 2am, the best time since bad movies with one star get shown. Wimbledon with Kirsten. Dunst (which their tennis form blows by the way) and The Perfect Score with Leonardo Nam, Darius Miles, and Scarlett Johansson. I'm going through pages of catalogs, and then poof. I see "chef" (that's what's on his ching chong hat in Japanese)... What do the three symbols mean? Crossing Chingchongchingman Flower. I think I get it. I wonder, am I offended? Is this fucked up? Is it stupid?
The actual set is the dude, a bowl of rice, soup, and the last thingI have no idea what it is. Do you?
I'm not offended, since it's too stupid and fucked up and too damn small of an object. I know there's a ton of folks who would be, and maybe are... but it's a tiny magnet, right? Some might see it probably as yet another tiny chipping away at the general Asian image. Should I sell them? No. Do I work with these folks? Yes, now with a hiss... Imagine if it were a blackface character, some caricature with a bone in a nose, what would be going on? Yeah, maybe I'm guilty of not getting riled up enough.
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posted by gr @ PERMLINK: 1:42 AM
13 Comments:
is that last one supposed to be sushi? weird.
The last magnate looks like a top
and side angle of a "truck tire" or maki sushi to me.
Not really knowing who this company is and scanning through it quickly, I probably wouldn't be offended because a lot of Japanese
companies make these kinds of things too.
But now that you mentioned it and upon closer inspection, I would say that an ignorant person designed these. I don't think a person with a real grasp of the Japanese language would put those characters on those figures. They are just cashing in on the fact that asian things are popular now.
It's difficult to say if something of this size is worth being offended by. But then again where do you start and end.
Oh yeah, and I wouldn't sell those either. I like the fact that we can
get authentic stuff from Japan at GR.
I think if you had ever
experienced that feeling,
you would probably feel
different and not think it
was a joke.
Hi there anonymous, what feeling? That I'm going to wear a rice picker hat and have buck teeth? Or do you mean, the feeling or being fucked with? Even though I have been fucked with plenty, as you can hear on the Long Duk Dong recording by NPR, and so forth, and whatever was going on in the 70s and 80s, since I lived through that too, it's still just so stupid that I'm not offended.
It could be both. I think everyone's experiences effects them
in a different way. Some might
not be offended, some might be.
I don't think if had never been
offended in that way, you would never have made that post.
Not sure what you mean, but I made the post because I know it's hardcore offensive to some.
My first post was addressing
the fourth post. I never
questioned the fact that
you, Eric, have or had not had experiences
with racial discrimination.
Nor did I question the fact
that you were offended by
these magnets or not. You
made it very clear at the end
by saying you are not offended.
I just noticed that there was
a difference in the tone of
the fourth poster. Where you,
Eric, was making fun of the
racial steretype and the other
anonymous person seemed to be
making fun of racial discrimination itself. I think
there is a difference between
not being offended and making
a joke about it.Maybe that person
didn't intend it to be that
way, but that is how it came
across to me. Also, I meant to say
that if you had never had racial discrimination against you in the past, I really don't think you would have made this post. I'm not saying that you were offended by the magnates and that is why you posted them.
oh boy, I caused controversy! I'm the fourth poster in this thread. as a matter of fact, I'm chinese, I took my share of asian american studies in college, AND I graduated with a minor in ethno-american autobiographies, I work in an industry that is mostly white men. and if it makes you feel better, I tutored alienated vietnamese refugees, too, when I was in high school. but I shouldn't have to list out my street creds on what it means to experience racism... particularly the subtle kind that most will gloss over. perhaps that's the worst kind. but what's wrong with making fun of it? to make a joke of it? anger isn't the only response.
No, anger isn't the only response,
and I've noticed that the whole
racial discrimination thing
is taken a lot lighter amongst
the younger generations.
it's "fouth poster" again. I'm not that young. I'm on the cusp of being a boomer actually. I was actually live when MLK was shot. I was alive when vincent chin was bludgeoned to death (I highly recommend the new documentary by the way). why is it so hard for you to accept that there are a multitude of responses to discrimination and iconography with racist undertones? p.s. have you been to japan? they sell stuff like this all over the place. slanted eyes and rice hats... actually, not all anime has big eyes, some japanese comics thoroughly embrace "asian eyes".
p.s. eric, why is there a delay comments showing up? do you really attract that many abusive folks? okay, you apparently have one person. me. but if I promise to be nice, would you just let comments go up immediately!?
As I mentioned above, I don't think anger
is the only reaction. I'm just commenting
about how I feel about these posts.
I also don't think I'm president of
anything. I'm just one of the few who
keeps coming back to this post.
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