Intercultural Communication: Ethnic Correctness and Cosmetic Surgery
Three decades ago, fresh
from the refugee camp of
Vietnam, I was first made
acutely aware of my own
Asian looks by a schoolyard
bully in my junior high. He
pulled the sides of his eyes
back to make them look
slanted and sang the ditty
now made famous by Rosie
O’Donnell recently
on The View--"Ching
Chong, Ching Chong
Chinaman." Well, good old
I’m-funny-not-a-
racist Rosie didn’t
say "Chinaman," but you
get the point. I never
thought of how I looked
living in homogenous
Saigon, but in America, as
an outsider barely speaking
English, I was fodder for
teasing and racist epithets.
In the bathroom one night
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