When I was little this rhyme was made with hand gestures
you took your hands and put them over your eyes and tilted them up and down, for chinese japanese you put your hands on your knees for dirty knees then you pull your shirt in front (as if you have breasts). I think we laughed a lot after that. Kids have a lot of silly rhymes for jumping rope and cheering on the playground. At least we did, I think kids still do. I never thought it was a demotion to someone just fun.
First of all, the funny thing is that you are all wrong! Although the oblique eye is clearly racist, this addition cannot be attributed to the author. This rhyme is cultural. It points out the meaning of a Japanese word for boobs similar to our word “****”. This explains the gestures of the chest. An example of this mispronunciation today can be found in the mispronunciation of the Hawaiian state bird (the Nene goose), often mispronounced “knee knee”, which may offend the Japanese or make them laugh at you. .
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That’s not racist, are you kidding me?
I’m Japanese born in Britain and I must have grown up enrolling this in primary school in the 70s. Children would come to me face to face and laugh at me in mean voices with these gestures, knowing that was mean and a scare tactic. What was most disturbing was that other children who didn’t normally behave this way joined them. Back then, this sort of thing was commonplace and racism was a normal and unpleasant part of life. Parents used to participate. I couldn’t walk past kids on the street without a racist taunt or whatever, aaaasoo, spitting and such. It was also the era of “pakis”, “blackies”, “wogs”, etc. Came across this after researching because my 7 year old daughter just found it in her elementary school. It must be nipped in the bud. Those of you who claim to be unaware of the racist undertones at the time…that’s a dumb excuse. You knew you were mean.
In my opinion, I thought it was a way of trying to offer a sense of gratitude, appreciation, and appreciation for two cultures that are often overlooked and undervalued.
Chinese, eyes up, looked up. Japanese, eyes downcast, understated. Dirty knees, hard working people often need to get a little dirty. Look at these, look at these or them.
I also think that pointing to the chest is not looking at the chest but seeing the heart.
Answer 6
When I was in elementary school (1968-1975), at some point during that time, some white kids would say, “Chinese (tilt eyes up), Japanese (tilt eyes down), look (point to boobs) I’ve only seen boys do it, not girls The first time I heard that with the “dirty knees” was a bad blonde girl in the movie The Devil’s Rejects who said it a few times It’s really scary so don’t see the movie unless you can make a really scary movie.
Answer 7
I think it’s racist unfortunately. The “dirty knees” come from the fact that foreigners living in Asia have Chinese servants who, of course, spend time on their knees cleaning the floors. “Look at them” refers to the difference in size of Western and Asian breasts, which is often a source of admiration for Asians unaccustomed to seeing Western women.
We did it on the school playground in the 1950s. So before the Vietnam War. Growing up, I never thought it was racist, just people with different shaped eyes. It didn’t make me think they were inferior.
It’s a harmless rhyme kids sing…most kids don’t even know what racism is. We didn’t have many Asians when I was young, so for us it was just a funny nursery rhyme! A lot of politically correct idiots call it racism.
I don’t think it was ever intended to make fun of anyone. It’s older than dirt. I knew a girl who used to say that and then show the boys she was lifting her shirt, and that was in the 70s. She would also tell us to kiss her ass.
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