Video class of Nicole Bucket, a Spanish language and career guidance teacher at Grant Union High School in Sacramento, California. YouTube capture
Controversy is arising when a teacher in California, USA poses for’slant eyes’ degrading Asians during an online video class. The teacher was also threatened with murder after the video was released.
According to ABC10 News on the 2nd (local time) in the United States, Nicole Bucket, a Spanish language and career guidance teacher at Grant Union High School in Sacramento, California, recently took a torn eye pose while teaching a class with video.
In videos posted on online communities, Bucket poses for a torn eye and tells students, “If the tail goes up, it’s Chinese, if it goes down, it’s Japanese, and if it’s horizontal, I don’t know.” The torn eye pose is a representative racist act that depreciates Asians.
Bucket is known to have taken a position to explain the racist side of’Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees’, an oral agitation in the Anglo-American world. However, when the video became known, netizens continued to criticize it, and Bucket even posted a post saying that he was “intimidated by murder” on a personal social network service (SNS).
In this regard, the school is conducting an internal investigation. The school district board issued a statement, emphasizing that it was “a very serious problem,” saying, “I was shocked by the insulting and racist words and actions of the staff.” Sacramento Councilman My Bang also pointed out that “racist stereotypes about Asian Americans are harmful in any situation.”
However, local media reported that some students advocated for Bucket, saying that the video was out of the overall context of the course at the time.
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