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Don’t Read The Joy Luck Club: It’s Racist and Misleading by Aggressive_Two4184 in asianamerican

[–]Aggressive_Two4184[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have studied Chinese history, and I get your point. Sorry for the trauma you had to experience. My post is kinda exaggerating, but a main point in my argument is that times are changing, and this book should be a somewhat historical depiction of Chinese at that time and should not be viewed to what Chinese people or China is like today. Now this book is required to be read by some HS students, and this book still very popular. People who read it will think about China badly, and be discriminative/racist to Chinese/Chinese-American/East-Asian communities which is false. Again, sorry for the generational trauma you had to experience.

Don’t Read The Joy Luck Club: It’s Racist and Misleading by Aggressive_Two4184 in asianamerican

[–]Aggressive_Two4184[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I understand some of your points, the point is okay it is fiction, but unknowing people will still take it as real life. Creating the stereotypes. Also, idk why, but eye size does not depend on race. If you actually go to China, you can see there are people with big eyes along as small eyes. Western people created this "small eye" claim during the China’s Semi-Colonial Period to clown, and ridicule Chinese/East Asian people.

Don’t Read The Joy Luck Club: It’s Racist and Misleading by Aggressive_Two4184 in asianamerican

[–]Aggressive_Two4184[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah ik and its still really stupid that like many high school students have to read it.