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Enough has already been said on the topic of the now notorious Mister Chu. The comic strip's readership has spiked from five people (the artists, their mothers and the AAA censor) to approximately 12 people, according to a recent Crimson poll. And, apparently a compromise has been negotiated wherein Mister Chu will morph into a WASP. Thank God for WASPs. In this age of political correctness, where would the art of ethnic lampooning be without them...
Sterritt, who specializes in Renaissance French literature, has also taught courses in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures during her four-year tenure. This past fall she taught a course entitled "French 111: Comic Prose and Cultural Ideologies in 16th-Century France...
Asian-American males have often been portrayed in the media as short, hairless, socially awkward nerds with a disproportionate love for math and science. This issue of negative racial stereotypes in the media has made itself manifest in The Crimson's own daily comic strip, "The Misanthropic...
...Misanthropic Mr. Chu" projects an image of Chinese males as socially awkward, people-hating math nerds. So what? At Harvard, we pride ourselves on being reasonable individuals who can surely tell the difference between a (supposedly humorous) comic strip character and a calculated attempt to viciously stereotype races as a whole. Surely reasonable readers know that "The Misanthropic Mr. Chu" is only about one negative character and does not reflect all of the different facets of the Asian-American community...
...that such stereotypes are inaccurate. And not all people are reasonable. When Asian guys leave Harvard, for example, they often encounter people who assume they are nothing more than wimpy Chinese nerds who care only about science and math. Perpetuating these images through the media--even in a daily comic strip-- doesn't help the general public learn to see Asians as rounded people...