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EN326: Arts of Gender, Highlights how Orientalism has three meanings,…
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Where the west had originally failed in trying to occupy China and use it for its resources and labor, Japan was able to prosper as they had a greater understanding of the culture present in China as they were very similar in many of their beliefs and traditions, making it easier for the Japanese to assimilate and take control in China
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The Fear that the Western countries had based on China's ever-growing expansion after pushing Japan out had led them to try and desperately stop this from occurring, trying to war with China whenever possible before the Great Truce.
The Great Truce had given the West a chance to combat their fears, as the use of biological warfare had given them an advantage over the number that China held in this scenario. Once the "sanitation of China" was complete, it was agreed to never be used again, showing the fear and racist intent of this plan had held.
The reason for China's expansion was not of a "war-like" mind, but was merely due to their increasing population and need for more land to house their people. China had only taken the land when the area were tired of the Chinese immigrants taking over and essentially needed to defend their citizens.
It's Wavering Image
The story of Pan reflects the same issues many Asian Americans face when trying to conform to the American norms to try and be accepted into society, often times trying to separate their Asian identity from their American identity.
Asian/American
The images reflect how hard Asian Americans would try to integrate themselves and become a part of American society, however no matter what they had done they would still be seen as outsiders.
Silent Anatomies
This text resonated greatly with me being half Hispanic, as I understand the issues that people often have when trying to find the right way to translate or say something in English with experience from my Grandparents, as well as my other relatives. This issue when it comes to accents make it often seem to make people be viewed as "unintelligent" when many of the same people passing judgment aren't able to learn a second language themselves, especially with how difficult English is in the first place. Even being able to speak English well still enables one to pass judgment with off-hand comments such as "your english is so good" based on ones looks.
The text highlights the issues that Asian Americans faced through use of symbolism, poetry and satire, such as the difficulty of their appearance being "non-American" which led to judgement and stereotyping against them, as well as issues when it comes to their accents. It also highlights some issues that those faced within their own culture, especially when looking at the "Untranslated Cervix", where they were unable to express their pain due to the lack of understanding and there being a word to describe where the pain rested.
The idea of changing features connects to the ending of the Hiroshima Maidens project, where it talks about how many Asians and Pacific Islanders would actually seek plastic surgery to give them more "American" features, in turn erasing their cultural identity similarly as seen in the samples found in Silent Anatomies
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Although Asian immigrants have played a large role in helping develop Modern America, there is still a concrete distinction made that separates society from recognizing "Asian Americans" as "real Americans", even though Asian Americans try to incorporate American ways in their day to day lives in order to integrate into society
Similar to Silent Anatomies, many Asian Americans would go through plastic surgery to try and make themselves appear "more American" relating to the "body" that Polumbo talked about in his piece and the efforts Asian Americans would go to be accepted into American society.
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The story shows the tale of an Asian American woman struggling with her identity, mainly due to the influence of a white man trying to win her favor, but instead uses her story and betrays her trust, forcing her to choose her chinese identity over her "white american" identity of her mother.
Racist Cute
The idea behind Racist Cute and Ornamentalism goes hand in hand, whereas they essentially talk about the same quality of forced attributes being placed onto the object, whereas the racist cute looks at consumer goods and Ornamentalism attributes this quality to human life
Ornamentalism
The ideas of Hypersexuality of Race and Ornamentalism go hand in hand, as the cinema world created this image of sexual desire to the Asian American race, which can also then be used to see Asian Americans as an object of desire and sexuality.
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The Carnal Orient explores this idea of Ornamentalism by the way the audience simply takes in the dancer as an "object of desire" as well as simply an object for consumption, taking no real care to recognize the person that is actually undergoing their consumption and attacks.
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The idea that a person or race is given/forced attributes upon themselves to create an idea of "objecthood", essentially degrading a persons value to a fusion of "thingliness and personness"
The "cute" and characiture nature given to objects that reflect Asian culture in turn reinforces stereotypes and only hurts the view of Asian Americans, and Asians as a whole as it can influence those who consume these objects to view Asian as lesser and hold a certain dominance over them.
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Queer Animality
The concept of animality can be seen in Carnal Orient with the way the audience members end up consuming the dancer at the end of the film, almost giving it the quality of predators to the prey as we'd see in wildlife.
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The text looks at how animal qualities are attributed to humans in order to relate them as lesser, seen primarily in anti-chinese propaganda that spread during the 19th century, where Asian Americans were compared to rats and given rat qualities. This was also seen in the 20th century with Fu Manchu, which was given feline features, which also played into the queer aspect as these features also made him appear feminine.
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The Hiroshima Maiden project shows how the United States created Orientalism within the country by trying to change the perspective that the American people had on the Japanese after World War II
The story from London's "The Unparalled Invasion" holds onto the thoughts present in Said's "Orientalism" as the West had created a biological weapon in order to gain control and change the landscape of China and the east.