If the Spanish Basketball Team doing it wasn’t enough, now teen/tween star Miley Cyrus of Hannah Montana fame has done it too (pointed out by TMZ):
She got called out on this by the Organization of Chinese Americans, and she certainly didn’t win herself some Asian fans, as witnessed by this conversation I overhead from The Daughter and her friend (also Asian) when they were looking at this picture:
“Oh my God.”
“I hate her. She is such a slut.”
“Yeah, and the only ones at school who like her are sluts.”
Ah, teenagers!
Miley has apologized, saying:
I’ve also been told there are some people upset about some pictures taken of me with friends making goofy faces! Well, I’m sorry if those people looked at those pics and took them wrong and out of context! In NO way was I making fun of any ethnicity!
Yeah, right Miley. If that’s true, then why isn’t the one Asian guy in the picture doing the same thing?
But I am not mad at you, Miley. You probably didn’t realize that the stupid eye thing you are doing has been used to mock Asians for generations. You are only sixteen, and like many teens about your age like my daughter, your judgment is not very good. I hope your teen and tween fans or their parents don’t mind seeing you out drinking. That’s probably as equally if not more troubling about this picture.
As for teen stars, I think that some of the stars of the Canadian teen show Instant Star are much better, particularly Alexz Johnson and Asian-Canadian Cory Lee. Too bad the show ended – The Daughter really liked it, and even this old guy thought that it was pretty good.
