Coming to terms with history
By Harry Mok.
June 26, 2002
"Stereotypes trace their origins to fact but along the way they are
appropriated, twisted and used against their subjects. Asian
Americans have been subject to stereotypical images like those in
Abercrombie's shirts for their entire history in the United States.
Putting the T-shirt incident in this context, it's hard to find much
humor in the situation, and the people who did find it funny are
ignorant of the past and the origins of these ugly stereotypes."
