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| Sayf Udeen Ismaeel | Oct 19 2009, 10:52 AM Post #31 |
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I know this isn't on topic, at the moment, but: |
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| gingerwitch28 | Oct 19 2009, 11:51 AM Post #32 |
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There is a perceived difference, I think, in between mocking things like bogans and racists and the Big (insert thing here) that seem to be all over Australia, but this guy used the example of ANZAC vets and the flag, and I think that there is a perception that things like ANZAC day are untouchable as they are part of a national mythos* (I can go into depth about this but I won't right now). The flag - among mainstream Australia, not so much. But I wouldn't say that this irreverence is only left to other cultures - we jump on celebrity gaffes quite quickly, even if they're among 'our own', so to speak. I think this is most accurately reflected in the tall poppy syndrome. * I don't actually believe that ANZAC day should be somehow exempt from this practice, but I suppose to some people you don't make fun of things like war which involve loss of life. My personal attitude it is to leave the soldiers out of it. But overall, no, I don't think that this is 'cultural chauvinism', as this guy put it. |
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| Freki | Oct 19 2009, 12:00 PM Post #33 |
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Thoughts? |
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| gingerwitch28 | Oct 19 2009, 12:08 PM Post #34 |
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One of the arguments that condemned the blackface skit was that it was homogenising and therefore racist because they were all dressed the same and looked the same. Personally I thought it was just a comment on the fact that Michael Jackson outshone the rest of his brothers and sisters and so they kind of faded into the background without having any real individual careers, with the exception of Janet  This, on the other hand, is different - they look different. And they're not in jet-black face paint, which was one of the trademarks of the Golliwog dolls, these guys are just brown so their skin isn't dark enough to be considered racist  Edited by gingerwitch28, Oct 19 2009, 12:09 PM.
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