Saw this on twitter last night:
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/03/30/open-thread-google-imaging-the-continents/
... as an Asian woman, I was offended...SHAME GOOGLE SHAME!
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@mrsjyw: Yikes! Is it bad that I LOL'd? haha. Ugh. Asians..
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Wow... that is... sad.
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@chopsuey119: i LOL'd, too... I don't think it's Google's fault. Internet + Asian = Asian fetishes, usually.
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@HabesBabe: Ugh, asian fetishes!
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Oh wow.
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Plus, if you Google Asia, North America, Europe (the actual continent name instead of the description of something from that continent), the Asia images are "normal."
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Wow.
But I don't think Google is to blame--isn't it based on what people are searching for (popularity)? I think Asian women (and all women for that matter) are very sexualized on the interwebs, but no one really searches for North American, European, South American, or African women--but as an umbrella term "Asian" is used to find "hot Asian girls." Terms for other ladies would be like, Latina or Ebony which would probably bring up something similar. If you look at the African images, they are really stereotypical.
So, you should probably be blaming your fellow man
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Sheesh, that's bad, but I agree - not Google's fault.
At first I didn't read the article, so I just went to Google and typed "Asian" and one of the Google instant results was "Asians sleeping in the library". Ummm what??
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Yuck.
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lol sorry, is it bad that I laughed?
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I totally laughed.
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