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Author: Rjinswand

Sep 2nd 2015 at 12:39:31 AM

I agree that such a page should exist. But it needs a more clear definition.

I don't think we should strictly follow Edward Said's definition of it, but rather use it for all Western stereotypes of "the Orient" that feature the East-West dichotomy.

A couple suggestions, though:
* Why not use the main title of AsianGalWithWhiteGuy -- MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow?
* JapaneseRanguage -- maybe rather use its supertrope, AsianSpeekeeEngrish?
* ''MagicalNegro (for Asian values of "negro")'' -- Um, sorry, what? Maybe you're thinking of its sister trope, MagicalAsian?
* Look up the AsianIndex, there might be other tropes that would fit here.
* The GreenLantern example, it's actually a weird one... It's tied to China because the original GL was based on ''Aladdin'', which is an Arabic tale set in China. So I'd say it's more of an example of "Orientalism" in the "art movement" sense.
* I'd suggest to make it an index, without examples of its own. I'm sure {{Tintin}} is already listed on the subtropes' pages, so no need to single it out here. As for Edward Said's book, it's not an example of orientalism, it's a work that explores the concept itself -- so I think it'd be more logical to mention it in the description.