{"id":4147,"date":"2008-02-06T08:25:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T15:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/?p=593"},"modified":"2008-02-06T08:25:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T15:25:41","slug":"%e2%80%9cme-reary-rikey-the-superbowl%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4147","title":{"rendered":"Racist Panda Ad For Superbowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/p>\n<p>Jenn from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reappropriate.com\/\">Reappropriate<\/a> blogs about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reappropriate.com\/?p=1043\">racist panda ad<\/a> that appeared during the SuperBowl:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The two pandas, named \u201cLing Ling\u201d and \u201cChing Ching\u201d speak in stereotypical Asian accents and grammatically incorrect \u201cChinglish\u201d, perpetuating the Perpetual Foreigner stereotype. The commercial\u2019s soundtracks include gongs and mandolins, and the writing is in that \u201cchopstix\u201d font that is supposed to be reminscent of Chinese. \u201cChing Ching\u201d the wife panda is clearly supposed to be a manipulative laze, who sits on her ass while \u201cLing Ling\u201d does the work of running the store, playing up the \u201cshrew\u201d stereotype of Asian wives that has become more prevalent of late. \u201cLing Ling\u201d meanwhile, is viewed as idiotic \u2014 eating his (implicitly shoddy) products.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am so glad I didn\u2019t see this commercial on television. I think I might have broken the television.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/categories\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/593\/\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/tags\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/593\/\" \/> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/593\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/593\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/593\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/593\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/593\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/593\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/593\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/593\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/593\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/593\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blogbullet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=743885&amp;post=593&amp;subd=blogbullet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenn from Reappropriate blogs about the racist panda ad that appeared during the SuperBowl:<br \/>\nThe two pandas, named \u201cLing Ling\u201d and \u201cChing Ching\u201d speak in stereotypical Asian accents and grammatically incorrect \u201cChinglish\u201d, perpetuating the Perpetual Foreigner stereotype. The commercial\u2019s soundtracks include gongs and mandolins, and the writing is in that \u201cchopstix\u201d font that is supposed to [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4147\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}