"Mike S." <retsuhcs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In article <ajzef.19146$fe6.3104@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Simon <shepshep1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>"John Harkness" <jharkness@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>news:8d8kn1p0nv31sinui1nkivf02pfg5br7e9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> On 15 Nov 2005 11:52:15 -0500, "Simon" <shepshep1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>"Nick Macpherson" <NMacphe421@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>>news:1132005231.700057.198980@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>
>>>>> John Harkness wrote:
>>>>>> On 14 Nov 2005 11:27:18 -0500, "Dioneae muscipula"
>>>>>> <flytrapvenus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> >On November 11, 2005, Zou Hanru wrote for China Daily on the
>>>>>> >controversy stirred up by the movie "Memoirs of a Geisha", which
>>>>>> >stars
>>>>>> >two of China's most recognizable actresses Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li.
>>>>>> >Some Chinese netters expressed their negative views on Zhang and
>>>>>> >Gong
>>>>>> >that they star in a movie concentrated on Japanese culture, and
>>>>>> >what's
>>>>>> >worse, they play prostitutes in the movie -- in Chinese, "geisha"
is
>>>>>> >literally "arts prostitute" (yiji).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd be waiting for the Japanese complaints -- as the third
principal
>>>>>> female role is also filled by a Chinese actress. (Michelle Yeoh is
>>>>>> Malaysian by birth, but ethnically Chinese.
>>>>>>
>>>>> The trailer's bigtime disorienting. You watch it and think, aren't
>>>>> Geishas supposed to be Japanese so why are all the women in this
film
>>>>> Chinese?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>The film is in English so why would it matter?
>>>
>>> Because Chinese people and Japanese people don't actually look alike?
>>>
>>> Especially when the three Chinese actresses are surrounded by a
>>> sup****ting cast of actual Japanese actors. It's jarring
>>>
>>> John Harkness
>>
>>I don't think many Americans can tell the difference, I couldn't tell
you
>>if
>>someone was Chinese or Japanese just by their face.
>
> Take the test.
>
> http://www.alllooksame.com
I got 5 out of 20, I was right I really can't tell the difference.
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