Word: orientalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Filipino is a stubborn gambler even for the Orient, an unbusinesslike dweller in the Far East of shrewd traders. His wife handles the money of the household, because otherwise he gives it away, loses it, bets it, or spends it. According to ancient tradition he takes in his kinspeople when they are in trouble, unworriedly moves in on them when in trouble himself. Americans think he is indolent, but his passivity "is a combination of natural dignity and a protest against unnecessary haste...
...great that he does not want to offend. If his greatest fault is his imitativeness, it is the U.S. of the past two decades that he has imitated. He has grown up like the heir to a rich estate-as rich and as little exploited as any in the Orient-whose guardian has been unable either to plan for him or to set him an example that he could follow...
...door-to-door, telling that now at last the white man is being driven from Asia, reciting incidents, whether true or false, of Filipinos being barred from Americans' clubs, promising that Japanese armies will get out of China and that after Japanese victory all Asiatics will enjoy the Orient...
...this war we must, I think, take care not to divide ourselves into color groups. The tide of feeling about color runs very high over in the Orient. Indians, Chinese, Filipinos, and others are sensitive to the danger point about their relation as colored peoples to white peoples. Many Americans do not realize this, but it is true, and we must recognize it or we may suffer for it severely. The Japanese are using our well-known race prejudice as one of their chief propaganda arguments against us. Everything must be done to educate Americans not to provide further fuel...
Peoples who know no English heard it in translations and summaries short-waved from the U.S. at intervals all night long. The translators worked fast, getting it out in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, German, Polish, Serbo-Croat, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Czech. Beamed to the Orient by San Francisco's KGEI were summaries in Dutch, in Cantonese dialect, in Mandarin dialect, in Japanese...