Cultural Appropriation-Links Added

http://bitchmagazine.org/post/costume-cultural-appropriation

Just wanted to post this link since it is related to the issue of yellow face/black face/etc. Also, in one of the bonus features on the Flower Drum Song DVD, the term cultural appropriation was mentioned in terms of the musical being written by white males, even though the original novel was written by a Chinese-American.

I'm looking forward to our discussion about the movie!

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Updated 10/26/2011

Here is a link on the origin of the stereotypical Asian musical riff:

http://www.danwei.org/music/funky_chinatown_and_the_asian.php

And here is a link to a recent instance of yellow face:

http://www.refinery29.com/is-taping-your-eyes-to-look-asian-the-new-blackface