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[[image]] [[strikethrough]] In these times, when a [[/strikethrough]] Life has repeated the unpardonable pre war mistake of portraying American minority groups as colorful, quaint, exotic, in so-called native dress. The Hawaiian Islanders today wear [[strikethrough]] Ameri [[/strikethrough]] American dress, speak, think, act American. The Chinese girl, instead of prettily waving a peacock feather fan, is far more likely to be pecking [[strikethrough]] at a typewriter, [[/strikethrough]] away on an Underwood typewriter in an airconditioned office, sneaking in a paragraph or two from a Collier's short short, when the boss isn't looking. War or pre-war, the "pure Japanese" (An American, of course) would look more natural with a bottle of Coca Cola instead of that imported fan in her hand.
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