Summary Of The Three-Dimensional Yellow Man By Julie Koh
Julie Koh’s hyperbolised representation of a reality that is overcome with racial profiling and the generalising of individuals of the ‘yellow’ skin tone expresses the subtle but evident undertones of discrimination in the world. In The Three-Dimensional Yellow Man, racial discrimination is evidently portrayed as a response to confusion and change through a simile in which a white individuals initial reaction after seeing an Asian individual, stating ‘their yellowness is blinding like the sun.’ This portrays the dehumanising of Asians to their different appearance although it is simply a response to an alteration in the normal white society. A distaste for foreign cultures is further represented as an evident societal issue through promoting