I havent had cable tv in about a year, so the only reason i even know this show exists is b/c the place i intern is one floor above Cartoon Network. when i was going up the stairs yesterday, i saw this cardboard cut-out of a cartoon character that struck me as the Asian version of Kim Possible. i know that many people dont really think about the ethnicity of cartoon characters, either b/c it's so obvious it doesnt need to be considered....or it's not obvious at all so it doesnt register.
i wanted to find out more about the show and if Juniper Lee was supposed to be korean or chinese. i found this interview with the show's creator. http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread...?threadid=34655
he says, "True story – my wife and I went out, got hamburgers and got drunk, and kicked around what would be the most fun. We just asked ourselves, what would make for the best show; keeping in mind there would have to be some educational component…somehow.
I love magic, I love monsters. I love Hellboy, I love Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, so my first thought as to do something like that. My wife, who’s Asian, came in with the idea that we should have Asian protagonists. She said it should be about sisters, about Asian girls, and Asian family that are actual Asian-Americans. None of this ninja crap. No woodwind instruments and no stereotypical Asian nonsense. They’re American kids of Asian descent, just like my wife, who was born in St. Louis and raised in L.A.
That was the show we wanted to do with Noggin. They loved it, and wanted to do it as well, so we started."
the show ended up with a sister and a brother.
another link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_..._of_Juniper_Lee
cred: google image search
