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Author: KingZeal
Oct 23rd 2012
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6:40:43 AM
The second link goes into what is touted as an educated ''opinion'' on the subject, not corroborated fact. It even goes on to say that it's debated. It also does not go into specific detail, but sweeping generalizations about colonialization as a whole. The Wikpedia link goes into more detail about European incursion into China, but it doesn't say much about how any form of "intimidation" led to China Doll stereotypes. That is insufficient here, as we're supposed to be talking about the origins of a very institutionalized stereotype. For example, Africans were also enslaved and colonialized by Europeans, but the stereotypes surrounding them are much, ''much'' different with or without intimidation as a factor. If intimidation is the cause, what variables led to the completely different cultural stereotypes? Citations are important when ''defining'' a trope, though, because the job of the Wiki is not to make up our own theories about why a particular trope started. Common sense is also dangerous to rely upon because "Everybody knows that" is one of the worst offenders of misinformation. We ''do'' know, however, that the China Doll is often seen as interchangeable with the Yamato Nadeshiko in Western culture--we've ''seen'' it happen within our own medium. So whether or not it started as a cultural misunderstanding may not be as important as the fact that it has ''become'' a cultural misunderstanding. I originally wrote this trope as "The Chinese version of the YamatoNadeshiko", and had little to do the current write-up. But I agree that it's an accurate improvement.
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