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Why do Americans think the Japanese draw themselves as white? (@Sociological Images)
Interesting post from the always excellent Sociological Images.
GUEST POST: WHY DO THE JAPANESE DRAW THEMSELVES AS WHITE?
Please welcome Guest Blogger, Julian Abagond. Abagond is a middle-class, West Indian, New Yorker; he is also a computer programmer who enjoys ancient Greek. He writes whatever he wants at his blog. In the borrowed post below, he explains that the question is really “Why do Americans think that the Japanese draw themselves as white?” Enjoy.
Why do the Japanese draw themselves as white? You see that especially in manga and anime.
As it turns out, that is an American opinion, not a Japanese one. The Japanese see anime characters as being Japanese. It is Americans who think they are white. Why? Because to them white is the Default Human Being. (for the rest, click here).
Also, check out: GUEST POST: THE UNBEARABLE WHITENESS OF BEING HUMAN
Stars Campaign for Inter-Racial Friendship: rock against racism in the 1950s?
Reposted from History is made at night
Jazz musician John Dankworth died last month. As this BBC film from 1959 shows, one of his early achievements was to chair the Stars Campaign for Inter-Racial Friendship, founded in 1959 to combat the activities of the White Defence League. As well as Dankworth, members of the campaign included Cleo Laine, Tommy Steele, Lonnie Donegan (looking very like a young Billy Bragg), Humphrey Lyttelton, and folk singer Karl Dallas.
As described at Love Music Hate Racism, Colin Jordan’s White Defence League later merged as part of the first British National Party in 1960, with Jordan’s former comrade John Tyndall later going on to form the National Front and then the current BNP. Jordan, who was once jailed for trying to burn down synagogues, was later the fuhrer of the British Movement leading a motley crew of neo-nazi skinheads to nowhere in the 1980s.
Deciphering Culture
Deciphering Culture 