Media Post 6

This is an advertisement for the citizens of America to buy War Bonds to help with the war. The war that America is in is World War II and this is right after the attack on Pearl Harbor and is showing that they are going after Japan next and need money. Because of the timing and the hatred for Japan the creator of this Dr. Seuss drew up the Japanese man as we stereotypically think of them.
This depiction of a Japanese man can be related to the movie that we watched in class, Ethnic Notions. In the movie they talked about how we would show blacks in pictures and over exaggerate on them. We would make them as black as possible, give them big pushed in noses, big lips, and lastly give them resemble a monkey. In this picture the same is done, but since he is Japanese we have him seen with the very thin eyes that look like they are not open at all, he is wearing glasses since most due or the fast that we assume they all are smart and glasses are associated with smart people, and also he looks to have a very flat face which also is something that we associate with anyone with Asian decent. With all these characteristics they are related to what Wu said in his piece "Yellow". He talk about racism toward Asians and how people just assume things about them like they all are smart which isn't the case and also that we look at an Asian and just see their thin eyes and flat face. This is something that we did to blacks and now are doing to the Asians which Wu stated that racism is not just black and white but asian is added to the picture. Another thing is Johnson, when you look at this you may think hatred toward Japanese and that is the case, but not entirely. This advertisement is for people to buy bonds and show that America needs the money since they are in the war and going to continue with the war by attacking Japanese. Whites think this but since they are the people in power and have privileged to not think about racism like Asians do they see nothing wrong but when an Asians looks at this they see hatred toward them.
I like this, this is a funny picture and after looking at it more i can see the side meaning of racism and how Japanese are bad but at first i see what many and probably all Americans at the time notices, was that the army needs money and this was in place just for that purpose.