Comments on: Raj comes to Riverdale, but did you know about Archies past trip to India?

By: Archie to visit India | Über Desi

Archie to visit India | Über Desi — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:29:25 +0000

[...] Archie, of course, is no stranger to India having traveled to India earlier (pictured below), with an intent to proselytize poor turban-wearing cow-selling Hindoos in Kashmir with Western music. [...]

By: Santosh

Santosh — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:51:07 +0000

“A people that are so spiritually strong and focused they can ignore pain”

Cmon Kirk. You seriously believe 99+% of the population is even thinking that option??
Besides, irrespective of whether you spin it that that way, that stereotype is just plain wrong and inaccurate because people dont ride, sit, sleep or levitate on a bed of nails. In fact, you would be hard pressed to find anyone, even in India, who has seen/experienced this stuff.

“It is the same stereotype that other Asians have such as the whole â€œGrasshopperâ€ spiritual warrior thing you see that comes from shows such as â€œKung Fuâ€.”

Pray educate me on that because I, sure as hell, have no such stereotype of “Asian” people.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:09:20 +0000

These Christian comics were produced in the 1970’s. And as I remember them they were pretty good though I am sure that many wouldn’t like the Christian message that they contain.

But I do remember them and for what they were meant to be I found them to be well-written for the time.

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“I remember reading a strip where the Indian students (turbaned Hindu) came to school on a bicycle with a seat made or pointed spikes. I guess it sort of reflects the stereotype many Americans carry to this day.”

And what stereotype is that? A people that are so spiritually strong and focused they can ignore pain? Is that such a bad stereotype? It is the same stereotype that other Asians have such as the whole “Grasshopper” spiritual warrior thing you see that comes from shows such as “Kung Fu”.

Intellectually smart and spiritually strong and in tunned. Damn those stereotypes.

By: Santosh

Santosh — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:56:36 +0000

That strip is beyond dumb.
So what was the title for that particular series? “When Archie turned evangelical”?
I’ve seen some pretty gross stereotyping of foreign folks in Archie comics. For instance, the Indian exchange students were always Hindus with turbans a.l.a Hadji in Johny Quest. Heck, I remember reading a strip where the Indian students (turbaned Hindu) came to school on a bicycle with a seat made or pointed spikes. I guess it sort of reflects the stereotype many Americans carry to this day.