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The idea of Chinese people being a "minority group" makes me laugh. It is so absurd that it must be a strawman.

• Jtsummers 11y ago
  Depends on where you are. And even if globally or even regionally they aren't, in the US there's a history of legal and extralegal abuse of Chinese immigrants. And then go back and look at the way they have been represented in numerous movies and tv shows over the decades in the US. It's not a pretty picture. Calling them a minority group may not be accurate, but there certainly is or was racism/nationalism/religionism targeted against them.
  • alextgordon 11y ago
    So you could say that cultural appropriation has nothing to do with foreign cultures, but is more of a conflict between different American subcommunities. If a person is Chinese, born and living in China, it seems highly unlikely that they would care about what Americans say or do. If a person is an American, who speaks American English, lives in America, but also has Chinese ancestry: appropriation of their identity is more likely to be a problem. As far as Halloween goes this is all hypothetical, because I'm not totally convinced that anybody is sincerely hurt by 'appropriative' costumes.
    • iofj 11y ago
      I'm not sure that Mulan is really that much more of a stereotype than, say, Shan Yu or even the emperor. They're all Greek style heroes : rejected by their parents/city/mother/... (or at the very least against their wishes) who go off to save the world from some evil villain lacking depth, and they get some desirable significant other as pretty much the only reward. Same story as Lilo & Stitch in many ways. I bet real aliens would be offended too, and frankly all humans should be offended at how the black suits are portrayed.