My dad likes to refer to himself as "an inscrutable Oriental" (non-ironically) & it just kills me.
I read a fantasy novel a few months ago that was lauded for having a lot of POC cultures in it (& was by a POC), but the culture that was supposed to be faux-Asian (someone referred to someone of that culture as being "slant-eyed" or something like that) was also described as being "inscrutable." AUGH. And this book came out, like, two years ago.
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Date: 2010-06-06 06:13 pm (UTC)My dad likes to refer to himself as "an inscrutable Oriental" (non-ironically) & it just kills me.
I read a fantasy novel a few months ago that was lauded for having a lot of POC cultures in it (& was by a POC), but the culture that was supposed to be faux-Asian (someone referred to someone of that culture as being "slant-eyed" or something like that) was also described as being "inscrutable." AUGH. And this book came out, like, two years ago.