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The Australia Thread
Eris:
I figured as much, but I always like to hope that you can be of a certain race (man, is there a better way to say this that doesn't bring to mind some dumbass saying "WE'RE ALL THE SAME RACE! THE HUMAN RACE") and not be incredibly biased towards that race.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Eris on 15 Nov 2010, 00:42 ---What I would like clarification on is this one thing; Are you just focussing on Chinese people being made fun of for a reason?
--- End quote ---
I am myself Han Chinese. I'm fully aware that other groups get a kicking too, and I'm not a fan of Summer Heights High either, but does that mean I should just shut up when Chinese people are targeted? Would you find it surprising or somehow wrong if a gay person focussed more on homophobia than other forms of discrimination? If not, why would you be confused by the fact that I am particularly sensitive to the form of racism that I suffer from myself?*
Thanks for the tip about the video embedding thing.
*Edit: And this makes me "incredibly biased"? Er... :?
Jimmy the Squid:
You could say ethnicity?
Akima is totally justified in being concerned with prejudice being directed at Asians given that it's something that she has to deal with. If I got discriminated against (I guess occasionally people call me a fag for painting my nails but frankly I'm pretty privileged) I would probably tend to focus on that particular kind of discrimination. The kind against me.
Also Akima, rad Batman Beyond avatar.
Eris:
Akima, you didn't answer my question as to whether it would be ok if that was a Chinese lady making fun of Lee Lin Chin's voice.
Also, I understand you being more sensitive to that form of racism, and already knowing that you were Chinese it wasn't really that surprising that you brought up the situation that you did, but that doesn't mean that your whole set of views and opinions has to be so heavily coloured by your ethnicity. Hell, I am not telling you how to live you life, and I really was generally interested as to why you singled out that specific kind of racism in Australian humour, rather than the fact that Australian humour is pretty racist in general. I just would have thought that you (you in a general sense, not you specifically) could have your ethnicity as part of yourself without being defined by it, and could use your personal history to give you a broader view of the situation rather than a narrower one. Maybe I am a bit idealistic in that way. In any case I will backtrack and apologise for offending you somehow because I don't understand because I am a straight white Australian female who is generic enough to blend into the masses, so whatever.
Honestly though, I didn't think that skit was particularly racist. It wasn't funny, but it still was more that they were making fun of her because she had a funny accent rather than her being specifically Chinese. The way it seems is that you looked at it was that they were making fun of a Chinese lady, that makes it racist and wrong. This wouldn't be an issue for you if the newscaster they were making fun of had a lisp and was white.
october1983:
Hannah I dunno, I guess the difference might be, in part, that whole groups have not suffered serious prejudice on the basis of a lisp. And, from what I can tell based on my little knowledge of the newscaster in question, that skit wasn't so much a funny take on particular characteristics of that person as just a crude and kind of uncomfortable racial stereotype.
I mean sure, on occasion Akima has brought up the "Chinese girl in Australia" thing in threads where it may not have seemed particularly relevant, but in this case I think it was a pretty interesting and topical contribution to the thread.
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