Visuals/Gook Alert - nerve-grating perpetuation

SoW: Must there be an Asian on the packaging of tea that contains green tea leaves? It's just perpetuating that "myth"....


Whitey: *chuckles* Maybe because green tea is from Asia? *chuckles some more*

An affliliate of Spoils of War: Tell Whitey that the next time I see a can of coffee (no matter what brand it is), I expect to see a caricature of a brown-skinned Colombian labourer coated in dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane insecticides, wearing a Mexican sombrero and playing La Bamba on a Peruvian-made guitar. Because, you know, coffee beans are from Latin America. And all Latin Americans are the same.




Champagne is from France. When was the last time you saw a stylized graphic of a beret-wearing, goatee-sporting postmodern artist eating cheese and chugging olive oil on the label?


Gunpowder is from China. Do all firearms have pictures of Qin Dynasty terracotta warriors on the boxes?

SoW: Cultured pearls were invented by the Chinese and you don't see Birks exploitng that fact in their adverts.





An affliliate of Spoils of War: Oranges were first cultivated in the Middle East. Do the crates have pictures of Bedouin nomads toting Arabian swords on the front? With magicial lanterns and flying carpets?



Chocolate was originally a Mayan delicacy (the cacao plant is indigenous to Central America). Shouldn't all Hershey's bars be labelled with Mayan glyphs? Or have cartoons of brown-skinned aboriginals wearing leopard skins on them?

Jeez.