The cat is depicted as a racist caricature of East Asian peoples with exaggerated stereotypical traits such as slanted eyes and buck teeth. He sings in poorly accented English voiced by a white actor and plays the piano with chopsticks. This portrayal reinforces the "perpetual foreigner" stereotype, while the film also features lyrics that mock the Chinese language and culture such as "Shanghai, Hong Kong, Egg Foo Young. Fortune cookie always wrong."Â
This is ironic because fortune cookies come from japan the info can be found Here Disney did not take the time to see where they came from. This is funny because they are saying sorry for showing stereotypes. They also said "were wrong then and are wrong now" this is bs because back in the day it was ok to be racist in the 1970s, saying "it was wrong then" is wrong today. Disney went ballistic removing/warning users about how racist the film is because people today don't understand the past and how it was.