OT: Peter Griffin, the family guy asks, WRT Asians:

[Jonathan Lighter]

Sounds like it was inspired by eyeBROWS in cartoons. Down-slanting angry
and evil, up-slanting honest and good.

JL

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> "Are [Japanese] the angry-eye kind or the droopy-eye kind?"
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> During The War, it was said that the Japanese could be distinguished
> from the Chinese by the fact that the former had eyes that slanted
> upward, whereas the latter had eyes that slanted to the side. I was
> taught this and shown how it looked at such a young age - three years
> old? - that I simply internalized it. I believed this till I was
> around thirty, without questioning it for an instant. I didn't notice
> any evidence to the contrary because I wasn't looking for any and I
> wasn't looking for any because I didn't need to. I'd known the "facts"
> of the matter practically from birth.
>
> Youneverknow.
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> Anyway, it's bizarre that, apparently, some version of what I was told
> ca. 1940 is still around in the 21st century.
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> Youneverknow.
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