ESPN Online Does Ichiro

[Mark Anderson]

Jim Caple of ESPN has a smart feature article on Ichiro today that 
wrestles with the hunger for Asian exoticism and gets over it. It's 
still  framed in national categories, Japanese vs. American, but Caple 
concludes Ichiro is a hybrid. Pretty good job for mass media, I thought. 
He certainly does better than a lot of Euro film studies people do. 
Don't even get me started on the New York Times' periodic cultural 
essentialist meltdowns. The best thing about this article is that 
sometimes it's even funny. Check it out: The Art of Being Ichiro 
<http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=ichiro&num=1>
                                                                         
                                                                       
                                            Mark Anderson
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