# Get Over it (stereotype) **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 19, 2002, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-over-it-stereotype/104514 "2002-04-19T13:46:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-over-it-stereotype/104514/81 "2002-04-24T19:23:41Z")
[Snopes.com](http://Snopes.com) did an article about this: [http://www.snopes.com/racial/business/tshirts.htm](http://www.snopes.com/racial/business/tshirts.htm) I just wanted to add one paragraph of that article: > [@](#): > > Members of the Asian-American community offered a variety of reasons why they found the shirts offensive: > > The shirts portray “Asian Americans doing work they have been historically forced to do.” > > The shirts feature outdated “images [seen] in California newspapers a century ago.” > > The shirts use Buddha, a religious icon central to Asian culture, for humorous effect. > > The shirts employ images that “smack of Charlie Chan and the coolie stereotype.” > > The shirts depict century-old stereotypes of Asians as “kung-fu fighting, fortune-cookie-speaking, slanty-eyed, bucktooth servants.” > > The shirts “trivialize an entire religion and philosophy.” The article also said that A&F got hundreds of complaints about the shirts. ---
**Author:** ![regnad\_kcin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@regnad\_kcin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/regnad_kcin)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-over-it-stereotype/104514/82 "2002-05-23T19:45:19Z")
Is there an existing link to a picture of this shirt somehwere? Id sure like to know what everyone is talking about. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-over-it-stereotype/104514.md?page=4)