Some people were rightly pissed off at the logo and posted about it here, which led to counter arguments on whether it was offensive or not. The whole thing descended into a flame war. One commenter reflected my own experiences :
As someone of chinese decent who grew up in an all austrian environment i can tell you why the cartoon and the slogan bother me. It reminds me of kindergarden when the other kids used to sing “ching chang chung chinesen sind nicht dumm, chinesen in die ecke scheissen….” the song was most of the time finished with a knock on my head, it also reminds me of middle school and high school where people who disliked (had a grunt against me temporarilly) greeted me with “schlitzi” (slantyeyed). It reminds me of the time when i served in the military (mandatory civil service time) when unteroffiziere and offiziere and fellow recruits greeted me with ching chang chung instead of hallo or servus which by the way i understand. "
Bottom line is I've had similar experiences so yeah I do find that picture offensive and you haven't experienced anything like that, then I can feel why other people don't find it offensive. Also having the surname wong, I've had to put up with the various rhymes too.
For balance here is an excerpt from a commenter who thought the logo was not offensive.
Honestly… chill out
It’s a picture portraying ONE man, and that’s it. It’s not trying to be racist. No matter how much you want it to, it’s not saying, “Hahaha all asians look exactly like this guy! Let’s make fun of them!” Sorry.
I’m a black guy living in America. I spent the first 18 years of my life in Georgia. I know what’s it’s like to be discriminated against, and sorry, this isn’t it. Like it or not, most Asian people DO have yellow-tinted skin and relatively slanted eyes. Those are physical characteristics associated with being Asian. The image of Mr.Wong is a perfectly acceptable caricutare. I mean, I’ll tell you straight up that most black people have brown skin, big lips, and curly hair. And it’s true. Whoop de do.
The logo has since been changed, to something IMHO looks equally as dumb. That reminds me of people who scrawl a jumbled lines together and pass it off as being a Chinese character (It only takes a little research to see what real characters look like). Usually you see this around Chinese New year when someone is making a display. I am not saying this is the case for the new logo it just reminds me of that.
After the terrible earth in China, people volunteered from other provinces and travelled far to help. The disaster brought out compassion. Yet others use the situation for they own benefit trying to con others into donating to them. That is the worse kind of human characteristic. It's like stealing from the dead, dying and those most in need. I don't understand it.
If you asked a four year old kid this question for their entrance test into school.
There are five birds in a tree, a farmer shoots one of them dead, how many birds are left in the tree ?
What would be your immediate answer ?
Well when the kid answers "none because they flew away scared from the sound of the gunshot.", you would applaud them for thinking outside the box. Instead the teacher's reaction was to berate the child, stating they were wrong and the insisting the answer was four. People like that should not become teachers !
I put the plug in the bath while I have a shower. That way I can collect the water to recycle for flushing the toilet. Some countries have a separate supply of water for flushing the toilet, but here we flush drinking quality water down the pan.
Anyway last week I neglected to turn the tap off fully, so it was trickling for a few hours. I had a whole bathtub full of water and a load of water must of gone down the overflow too. If I didn't have the plug in trying to collect the water I probably would of hear the trickling. What's worse was I did it again a few days ago ! doh
I never got this show, having only watched clips of it. I'm glad someone wrote an article explaining what it's about. Some of the comments after the article are hilarious.
We've had sunny weather for a whole week last week, temperatures were at a maximum of 27 c (86 F). However my weekend was even hotter, 38.9 C (102 F) and it felt like my whole body was burning up ! I really should bitch more about things rather then keeping them bottled up.
Lately in the news is the Austrian guy who shockingly locked away his own daughter away for 24 years. The repercussions of this have an effect on a whole country and it's people. Local radio stations in London and the BBC have been asking "Are you Austrian, and if so how do you think this latest abuse scandal will affect your country's citizens and Austria's reputation internationally? How do you think your country will cope with this in the long term?". I find it bizarre how you could link the actions of an individual who is not elected to a whole country. Granted there has been two other similar cases of people getting locked away in cellars but does that mean the whole country and everyone in it is at fault ?
We are seeing too much of this mass labelling, when it's only the actions of a few. It's unfortunate, it's life.
What do you do when you feel old to recapture your youth ? Buy a brand new sport's car ? Nope can't afford one. Instead I bought a new bicycle. Hand crafted in Taiwan, it has a front suspension so I can attempt some downhill jumps and ride on some trails.
I haven't ridden a bicycle in years, the last time I was on a bicycle. I managed to crash into the ground and cut my head with blood dripping down my brow. That wasn't the worse part, I also fractured my arm which led to internal bleeding. So my elbow swelled so much that I couldn't move my arm. I ended up in hospital having to be impaled by gigantic syringe to drain out all the blood.
One of my must read blogs is the Phototshop disasters blog, I would say the majority of movie posters feature very obvious head swaps.
Spider-Man 2 has already been featured on the photoshop disasters site, being a fan of spidey, I downloaded the wallpapers of the official movie site when they first became available, here is the copy from my hard drive. If you look at the webbing on Spider-Man's suit where Mary Jane's hand is you can see it's misaligned. I only noticed it a few days after having as my desktop background, I went back to the site and the wallpaper was fixed.
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k.d. said:
great post! honestly, i always liked the original mister wong logo and never thought it was racist - like the... read more
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I never thought of it that way. Your right we shouldn't be talking about violence to children. I guess I... read more
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Cabgirl said:
Dude... telling a 4-year old about shooting a bird is just WRONG... LOL read more
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[this is good]It's good that people are now finally starting to realise that our world is being polluted by US, and every... read more
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yeah i never really got this show either. I watch it for the shoes.... read more
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