Washington: Asian-American groups in the US are demanding from Google to remove an application (app) from its Google Play store called ‘Make Me Asian’ which allows users to alter their photos to resemble Asian stereotypes.
A similar app called ‘Make Me Indian’ has also received criticism. “These apps perpetuate hateful and offensive stereotypes that are used to this very day to marginalise and humiliate Asians and Native Americans,” wrote Washington pastor Peter Chin on the website change.org, where he has started a petition for the apps to be taken down. “They are not funny, and their use highlights a vicious double standard, where people are allowed to characterise” both groups “in a way that they never would do to other races,” Chin wrote about the series of Android phone apps created by designer Kimbery Deiss. (IANS)
