Different tooth shape and the way they're set. Look up "Asian shovel teeth" and you'll see what I mean. It probably looked odd to Europeans when they first saw that, but that's relative I guess.
Many of us Native people have the same sort of teeth, they're a different shape with a different appearance. It's something you have to see to get.
Why do caricatures of Chinese people often have buck teeth?
Because that is the stereotype.
Reply:whites are racist? wow thats harsh. definitely just as bad as the people who draw asians with buck teeth. To answer your questions it's because way back in the day of WWll. caricatures take anything abnormal and exaggerate it beyong belief. since a lot of asians at the time didn't have the chance to straighen their teeth, the cartoonist took it too a whole other level. just like George Bush's ears ot John Kerry's long face.
Reply:It started with caricatures of Hirohito during WW2, I highly doubt you have seen any pictures like that drawn in the last 50 years because the PC police would have a fit. It was the Japanese drawn like that, not the Chinese
Reply:the same reason The English are drawn with crooked teeth and the Americans are drawn FAT!!
Its all down to stereotyping I'm english so maybe I didn't spell that right ?
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