Another Take On Chinatown

I thought of this song by Devandra Banhart while reading how well established the smuggling operations of the Snakeheads were around the world. Banhart, himself an American, describes the chinese children he'd have living in different countries, with the chorus describing him passing on the physical characteristics of growth, hearing, running and breathing unto black, blue, red, and gray children. It could be argued the song lends itself to a political idea of the great numbers of Chinese emigrants (am I using that right?) around the world and how they as a people are inhabiting the earth. However both the jovial mood of the song and the references to randomly colored babies implies a more humanist view that people will be people regardless of what they are called. The very idea of babies is unmarked identity, something that has yet to be molded into any ethnicity or group identity.

While searching for a decent version of the song I came upon this video which I would normally have passed over but decided to use because of the visual representations the two girls come up with. I think they do a good job of pointing out the satirical nature the song carries toward stereotyped races. The drawings of chinese babies in rice picker's hat and holding a bowl of noodles along with the black baby with a Nike swoosh on his diaper quickly lose their negative impact when the blue, red, and gray babies all appear to join the dance party in similar dress. Is this the end of PC?