Katy Perry has sparked quite the controversy after dressing up like a geisha and wearing "yellow face" as an homage to Cio-Cio-San, the tragic character from Madama Butterfly during her AMA's performance of new single "Unconditionally," Sunday night.

Though the AP first described Perry as a "princess out of a classic Japanese painting," with "dozens of colorfully clad dancers," many in and outside of the Asian community were appalled by her reckless commoditization of Japanese culture.

Jeff Yang, of the Wall Street Journal described the performance as a "full-barreled technicolor assault on a quarter-millennium-old set of traditions that would've given any self-respecting denizen of Kyoto's Gion District a massive fatal heart attack."

The New York post compared her AMA performance to Outkast's decision to go with a Navajo-inspired concept for their 1997 Grammys number. Admitting that Perry is not a racist, she's described as living and making decisions in a "blissfully ignorant bubble."

"She wouldn't dream of black facing for a performance, nor is it very likely that she'd ever approve a Navajo-themed number. So why did Katy Perry think it was OK to dress up like a Japanese Geisha for the opening act of the night? ... the fact that Perry didn't see anything offensive in her routine is astonishing.

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