Full Metal Jacket brought us the phrases “me love you long time,” “me so horny,” and “me sucky sucky,” which are still used to objectify and harass Asian women today.
I was a sophomore in high school when Memoirs of a Geisha was released, and men saw it as a license to cast any Asian woman in their own geisha fantasies.
There are many more examples, of course, and the problem goes back much further. Asian representation in Western pop culture has long been plagued by stereotypes.
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