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> None of the white people are presented in exaggerated, outdated costumes. Outdated? These cartoons were drawn in the 1930's and 40's... 90+ years ago. They w
by Alupis 6y ago
> None of the white people are presented in exaggerated, outdated costumes.
Outdated? These cartoons were drawn in the 1930's and 40's... 90+ years ago. They were not outdated at the time.
Regardless if we find some of these drawings racist by today's standards - they are historical and should be preserved as such.
1984 becomes more real by the day...
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago>Outdated? These cartoons were drawn in the 1930's and 40's... 90+ years ago. They were not outdated at the time. They aged pretty f-ing fantastically considering what they could have drawn back then.
- jfengel 6y agoYes, they were outdated at that time. The Chinese had adopted western dress decades before. The queue was dated long, long before that.
- yellowapple 6y agoAnd you know the depicted individual is wearing a queue... how, exactly? There's no hair depicted at all from what I can tell. As for the wardrobe, no, it doesn't look that dated, especially for the time. Maybe the style of it, but conical hats and wooden shoes are both practical and still commonplace throughout East and Southeast Asia, last I checked. The clogs are probably the most objectionable aspect, and only because I don't know if anything resembling Japanese geta was common in China. And further, the whole book is from the point of view of a child's imagination, so expecting it to map particularly closely to reality is entirely ignorant of literary context.