Racist Google App Creates Outrage Among Asian-Americans
Racist Google App Creates Outrage Among Asian-Americans  Asian-American groups in the US are demanding from Google to remove an application  from its  Google Play  store called  “Make Me Asian”  which allows users to alter their photos to resemble Asian stereotypes. “Make me Asian” App 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.  “You can for a few seconds to make himself a Chinese, Japanese, Korean,” Kimbery Deiss wrote o...
