Word: pidgin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year's Hasty Pudding Show, "A Little Knife Music," one of the actors is cast in the role of a Chinese character named Edgar Foo Yung. The character portrayed is so pitifully predictable, it is everything one would expect of a racist caricature. Complete with the requisite trailing pigtail, pidgin English, and tiny stature, he bows and clasps his hands together, preeminently laughable in all his jerky, awkward mannerisms. He is presented as a slimy little man who evilly lusts after the blond heroine...