"kscharf" wrote:[QUOTE=jeffbert;206852] kscharf: please explain why you think this is Politically incorrect.
Just the way some of the 'natives' were represented. I know that the same thing was done in old Betty Boop cartoons, but by the 1960's we were getting more sensitive to it. Tezuka wasn't trying to be racist of course as was explained in the Dark Horse intro to their reprints of the Manga.[/QUOTE]
I am sorry to disagree. It would be more accurate to say that by the late 1960s into the seventies parents groups may have begun to get sensitive to some stereotypes, but not in the early sixties when "Astro Boy" was originally under production.
There was a show, "The Dick Tracy Show" which wasn't really about Dick Tracy as it was about his fellow officers with stereotype names and characters like: "Joe Jitsu, an Asian detective and "Go Go Gomez", a Mexican detective. This show was very popular in the sixties.
What the censors were more concerned with was depictions of sexuality and extreme and what appear to be cruel depictions of violence.
Two examples are: In the episode 'The Mysterious Cosmic Rays" scenes of nude paintings in the lair of the villain had to be removed or covered up.
And there is of course the rejection of "The Hot Dog Soldiers" episode as too cruel for broadcast in the US because so many children have pets and it was considered that the episode might prove too upsetting to children; especially the younger ones.
Point being that the depiction of the natives in this episode would most likely not be a problem in choosing this episode for dubbing.
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