What do Miley Cyrus and Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's have in common? Aside from short stature and a winning smile? Lots! Making the rounds of the internet is the picture you see at left, depicting Miley, her much older and nellier boyfriend Justin Gaston, and others pulling at the sides of their eyes in the classic elementary school "Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, look at these" motion. Asian-American group OCA issued the following statement regarding the photo:
The photograph of Miley Cyrus and other individuals slanting their eyes currently circulating the Internet is offensive to the Asian Pacific American community and sets a terrible example for her many young fans. This image falls within a long and unfortunate history of people mocking and denigrating individuals of Asian descent…
…Not only has Miley Cyrus and the other individuals in the photograph encouraged and legitimized the taunting and mocking of people of Asian descent, she has also insulted her many Asian Pacific American fans, said George Wu, executive director of OCA. The inclusion of an Asian Pacific American individual in the photo does not make it acceptable.
OCA hopes that Miley Cyrus will apologize to her fans and the APA community for this lapse in judgment and takes the opportunity to better understand why the gesture is offensive."
Miley immediately apologized for the gaffe, pressed her palms together and bowed and said "Most honorable Miley say ah so solly!" Ugh, what a maroon. If Miley and her pals want to offend via photographed gesticulations, they should learn some that aren't racially charged. Like the international symbol for cunnilingus. Or the shocker! Everyone likes the shocker. Even the OCA!
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She's just being desperate for attention.
ironically, the asian has the most open eyes of any of them!
Looks more like they are stoned than making fun of Asians. I get a little squinty around 420 myself.