Hmm…

This is something that I started noticing when people would bring in the Asian magazines. It goes for any cultural magazines. The ads are always different. It might be the same product that we have here but the company tries to make it appeal to the consumers of the magazine. Here [...]

This is a clip comprised of various different recent media clips. Looks like maybe we haven’t come too far from the Popeye cartoon…

I can’t believe I forgot about this. Mad TV had a character named Mrs. Swan who was Asian and kind of nuts. I’m not sure what that is saying about asian stereotypes but it does seem that in media, the comic character is usually of a minority with them usually being asian or [...]

This is a spoof by Mad Tv of a Gwen Stefani video. It addresses a lot of Asian stereotypes in true Mad Tv style.

I found this while searching around on the internet.  I thought you all might find it interesting, especially the quote that I have bolded…
“Anti-Japan War Online” game to hit the market
(Interfax)
Updated: 2005-08-31 13:52

PowerNet Technology, a Chinese online gaming firm, has developed a new online game in cooperation with the China Communist Youth League [...]

In class we spoke about the structure of this poem and someone made the comment about it being in a zigzag shape like that a person would make to dodge bullets.  I can actually relate to this first hand.  I went to high school about five miles from where the sniper shot someone at the [...]

Now that I’ve finally figured out my username/password combo I can blog again!!! Anyhoo…I was thinking about the Generation poem that we discussed in class on Monday and the idea of the unborn world. The line “In the unborn world we heard the years hurtling past, whirring like gears in a giant factory–time [...]

To me, the manager’s wife in A Japanese Nightingale is meant to stand for Americans as a whole.  Yuki is meant to represent how American’s view the Japanese so the manager’s wife is Watana’s way of saying “Oh yeah, well this is how the Japanese view you.”   Both the manager and his wife are loud [...]