Thinking a lot about one Asian character in Mean Girls having a Vietnamese first name but a Korean surname, and another one having a name that seems to have just been made up entirely???
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Replying to @MaraWilson
Well... Puccini's opera Turandot has 3 Chinese characters called Ping, Pang and Pong
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Replying to @DrCisco @MaraWilson
Thats right up there with the names in The Mikado...Yum-Yum and Peep-Bo for fuck's sake
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My tepid defense of the Mikado has always been that it's "meta", the show is extremely open about the fact that it's cultural appropriation about a culture they know almost nothing about (there's that running gag with the "fun fact" about Japan that's completely false)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @hhuffstutler and
But it's not a great defense
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