Looks like a Japanese cartoon - unfortunately not funny

[Mira]

[ZombieHorde]

1. What is your take on this cartoon? nt

[Mira]

14. To answer your question- simply-

Today: I live in the center of NC / in the city with supposedly the third highest number of hungry children in the US

My personal history: I grew up in post war Germany / oldest of 7 kids / we were very hungry

The cartoon: Our supposedly rich country is on the bottom rungs of what we do for our children, at least after they are born

The joke: I said it's not funny, and I add that it is sad. The 'toon doesn't depict the hungry African children that really we supposedly had to remember in this country in that silly directive - because it would then become a target for being called racist.

A story: A young woman told me recently that she always had to clear her plate, with just that admonition hanging over her head. She put duct taped baggies under the table into which she funneled the food from her plate so she could leave the table.
NOW THAT is funny.

[democratisphere]

2. The TRUTH hurts, even with humor!

RepubliCONS certainly don't believe this is true, but it is!

[Warpy]

3. No, it's sad that starving children in Asia

are now well fed and children in the US are the ones who are hungry.

The cause of poverty is the accumulation of wealth into too few hands.

Poverty is a WMD.

[alphafemale]

4. Drink your beer. There are sober children in TN nt

[Go Vols]

7. :/

[frazzled]

5. It's a little off

No one ever said, "Eat your food. There are starving children in Japan."

I believe the expression was always "Eat your food, there are starving kids in Africa." That might have been fairly racist, when one looks back on it. But there were actually series of famine in Africa (remember Biafra?) that made it make a certain amount of sense back then. We saw pictures of truly emaciated kids, who were dying. While hunger and poverty are indeed on the rise in America, we're not seeing pictures of children with their ribs sticking out and bulging eyes, which is what our parents were referring to. Indeed, poverty in this country has had an odd, inverse problem: obesity. The result of access to only very poor foods.

I never said any of these things to my kids. Just, "take two bites to try it, because it's healthy for you." They usually wouldn't.

[Brother Buzz]

6. In the fifties it was universally, 'China'

[Go Vols]

8. Was China

in the '60s too.

[alphafemale]

9. That to me was one of the stupidest things adults ever said.

How is forcing kids to eat past when they feel full helping kids with vacant eyes that die daily of starvation by the thousands.

[gollygee]

10. I always heard "Asia"

Not specifically China.

[Neoma]

11. Might differ in different regions?

I've only ever heard China.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. I'm old enough that World War II was still a fresh memory for the adults in my family

early in my childhood, not to mention the fact that they sent food packages to relatives in Germany and that my grandmother's brother was in the Occupation forces in Germany and saw children rummaging through the U.S. base trash cans.

So for my grandmother, it was "the children in Europe are starving."

[LittleBlue]

13. That hits too close to home

Unfortunately a direct hit right at the heart of America.

[Heywood J]

15. Why would a Japanese cartoon be in English

or signed what appears to be "Gary Wagner" or "Gary Wager"?

[madokie]

16. That would be Chinese

not Japanese