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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
Hm, I don't recall the books being very racist, but then, my favorite ones were the space related ones (wanted to be an astronaut, of course) and I was much younger, so didn't see racism everywhere. Probably been...25 years since I last picked up a Tintin book.
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Tintin in the Congo (which never was translated into English was pretty bad)...although the next book Tintin in America was pretty critical of the way American Indians were treated (although they were portrayed in the stereotypical manner of the day).
No doubt his early works were filled with stereotypes common in the culture of the time, but I think he generally got his act together. And he seems to be more supportive than degrading to minorities (at least in the modern versions)
Herge also had to work in Nazi-occupied Europe (The Shooting Star was written under the Nazi's)...leading to some to charge Herge with collusion. If you see the original version of the Shooting Star it has the team competing for the meteor is an American group financed by a very stereotypical Jewish group of Capitalists. That flavour was scrubbed in a remake.