Word: foos
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...stage at the Hasty Pudding Theatricals is a character called Ed Foo Yung. The script describes him as "one of them Chinamen...with the scrawny little mustaches." He is "slimy" and "disgusting." As he enters, Ed is hunched over, pigtailed and inhuman. He mumbles in pidgin English, and leers at the blond Mae. Too weak to defend himself, he is thrown around the stage by his pigtail and must die for proclaiming his desires for "the pretty white lady...
...also untrue that a ludicrous characterization of Ed Foo Yung makes him innocuous. Gross depictions of Asians as evil and subhuman have contributed to the condoning of Japanese internment during WWII, attrocities of the massacre at MyLai, and recent creation of the Gook Klux Klan in the United States...
...March 7th, the Harvard/Radcliffe Asian American Association asked the Hasty Pudding Theatricals to alter the character of Ed Foo Yung. After several discussions, the cast and staff of the production acknowledged the destructiveness of their distorted ethnic depictions. They are nevertheless reluctant to change the image of Ed Foo Yung. A mere recognition of the problem without subsequent termination of the practice is a sterile intellectual exercise; it does not repair the inherent social damages of the play...
Members of the Asian American Association (AAA) will demonstrate tonight and tomorrow night at performances of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals musical, "A Little Knife Music," because they object to the character Edgar Foo Young as an Asian stereotype...
Representatives of the AAA and the Hasty Pudding have met twice since the AAA sent a letter to the Pudding on March 7, requesting the revision or removal of the Foo Young character...