Perhaps they agreed to the names in exchange for a discount from the Japanese Anime artists?! Further to these overly cute critters, I have an admission and a question.First, in the interest of full disclosure, I will share with you that I once dated an Air Canada flight attendant named Sumi. She was half Japanese and half Caucasian. The mascot Sumi is cute but she was much cuter. I imagine her colleagues must be teasing the hell out of her!
And now the question: Do you think that Quatchi's hairy stomach was closely modeled after Charles Adler's beard? Think I'm kidding? Take a look at this:Furthermore, his deep baritone voice is very reminiscent of Adler's!
Lower mainland is over 22 per cent Asian descent or birth.
ReplyDeleteI know you don't mean that the way it sounded Rob, so could you define "authentically Canadian," and explain if you really do have a problem with the mascots?
Uh oh, the curse of the Anonymous commenter. My first inclination was to say "Huh?!?" because I really didn't know what on earth you meant. But now I see that you're referring to me as a racist.
ReplyDeleteI learned long ago that if someone chooses to interpret something you say in the worst possible way then that's their prerogative and there's nothing anyone can do about it.