why Oriental is offensive

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:19 PM -0500 2/9/01, Jeffrey William McKeough wrote:
>Mark Odegard wrote:
>>
>>There are those who might misconstrue the song "Blame Canada" (from _South
>>Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut_). Yes, it's superficially anti-Canadian, but
>>then, this is a song written by Canadians to satirize American views of
>>Canada.
>
>Trey Parker is from Colorado and Marc Shaiman is from New Jersey.
>
Actually, "Blame Canada" is superficially a song written by Canadians
to satirize American views of anti-Canadian sentiments, but is
actually a song written by Americans to satirize Canadian views of
American impressions of anti-Canadian sentiments.  Deep thinkers,
those South Parkians.

L