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Wonder Woman’s Middle Eastern Stereotypes Should Have Stayed in the 1980s
Slate
12/29/2020
This article contains spoilers for Wonder Woman 1984
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When
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was released in May of 1984, reviewers were nearly unanimous in their praise. The New York Times’ Vincent Canby described it as “endearingly disgusting … like spending a day at an amusement park,” and Roger Ebert’s four-star rave called it “one of the most relentlessly nonstop action pictures ever made.” It was only in July, when the National Asian American Telecommunications Association and the advocacy group Chinese for Affirmative Action issued a joint statement calling the film in particular the characters of Shanghai crime boss Lao Che, Chinese child sidekick Short Round, and the Indian Thuggee cult, led by high priest Mola Ram “racist in [its] portrayal of Asian people” that the conversation about the film’s rampant orientalism began to shift ....

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