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PERMANENT SCARS

This cartoon is based on experiences my own since I was very little and answers how stereotypes came and start from what people see on the screen. I was a young girl who loved watching cartoons, and movies and reading storybooks. Among those enjoyable days, there were some times that I had several questions in my hand. I have asked myself every time where the cartoon characters were asking for help in math or in a science lab, why were the people always round Asian people with square glasses and old lab coats on. Younger myself had also wondered why the Asian characters were having chopsticks stuck in their hair and were called kungfu girls or karate boys. Along with these wonders and questions popping in my head, I got an upsetting, tingly feeling in my stomach. The cartoon then moves on to the second part of how actually witnessed and experienced these upsetting feelings in my life. I had included several cuts with how those discriminations made me feel and how other younger children who experience the same thing might struggle through the same emotion. Then the cartoon starts to analyze the wonders I had for a long time after I experienced discrimination based on stereotypes I had experienced how in the large world the only way people learn about unknown places and information is by watching the media. And those media where people watch and learn sometimes tell wrong information and wrong concepts which cause conflicts and misunderstandings.

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