There were Slavonian hunters, fair-skinned and mighty-muscled; short, squat Finns, with flat noses and round faces; Siberian half-breeds, whose noses were more like eagle- beaks; and lean,
slant-eyed men, who bore in their veins the Mongol and Tartar blood as well as the blood of the Slav.
THE Argentina men's volleyball team was accused of 'inappropriate and culturally insensitive' behavior by the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) after several players made '
slant-eyed' gestures following their victory over China at the Olympic qualification tournament.
Limiting the discussion to Tolkien's concerns for exploring and sustaining a particular type of Christian moral universe potentially works to alienate that portion of the population that perhaps recognizes its own physical body in the dark-hued, the "
slant-eyed," and the bent or "deformed," but which insists upon its own interest in forging a moral universe in which that portion might puzzle out the complex ethics of contemporary life alongside the tall and fair.
At one game he was spotted breaking stadium no-smoking laws with a lit cigar and making
slant-eyed gestures towards some South Korean fans.
Taken from the pages of a 1937 Seuss book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, the mural depicts a
slant-eyed, chopsticks-carrying Chinese man in a way that critics called "deeply hurtful." "While this image may have been considered amusing to some when it was published 80 years ago, it is obviously offensive in 2017," said writers Mo Willems, Lisa Yee and Mike Curato in a letter explaining why they had decided to bow out of a literary festival, since cancelled, that had been planned at the museum for next Saturday.
Among the stories included in this fifth volume are: Wise Words Of Tecumseh, Turkey Makes the Corn and Coyote Plants It, The First War, The Fox and the Kingfisher, The Fox and the Rabbit, The Killing of the Monsters, Splinter Foot Girl, The Bullfrog Lover, The Hunter and the Buzzard, The Water Cannibals, The
Slant-Eyed Giant, The Hunter and the Dakwa, The Moon and the Thunders, The Spirit Defenders of Nikwasi', Story of the Red Fox Clan, Mudjikiwis, Sedna, Mistress of the Underworld, The Orphan and the Owl, The Wanderings of the Bear Clan, The Fable of the Animals, Iktomi's Blanket, Iktomi and the Coyote, Bear-Woman and Deer-Woman, The Man in the Moon and many, many more.
Performed a '
slant-eyed' greeting in South Korea in 2002.
But Benja,
slant-eyed with a glowering rage, suddenly gave one almighty shudder and rushed for his man in a spasm of temper, throwing a wild uppercut that grazed Biggs' forehead and caused him to send a haymaker in frightened retaliation.
"Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow,
slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods," he had told the magazine.
She was branded racist for pulling a
slant-eyed pose for a photo and came across as a spoiled including the a diva brat when she got into a war of words with mission Radiohead after they snubbed her.
You either loved its
slant-eyed stance or hated it.
And just last month she enraged parents of her teen fans further by making
slant-eyed expressions as she sat at a dinner table with Asian-Americans.