Our Guest Offender Zohra’s recent post on vintage postcard and matchbox images from Afghanistan made me think of vintage images from right here in the United States–specifically print ads from yesteryear showing less than p.c. images of Asians. So take a walk down memory lane with me to a time when causal racism and stereotyping was as American as apple pie baseball chop suey.
Appearing at a time of strong anti-Chinese sentiment, here’s a product that gets rid of rats with the efficiency of…the Chinese who obviously eat them as well as other pests. “They must go”–not sure if the slogan is referring to the rats or the Chinese.
Anyone know what Chinese Cherry actually tastes like? On second thought, don’t answer that.
When Malcolm Gladwell’s book 
