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The Australia Thread
Inlander:
Oh wow, you heard Radio Birdman outside Australia? Awesome!
Akima:
--- Quote from: october1983 on 15 Nov 2010, 04:28 ---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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I didn't think I was that bad, but I'll bear it in mind in future.
--- Quote from: Jimmy the Squid on 15 Nov 2010, 03:08 ---Also Akima, rad Batman Beyond avatar.
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Well spotted. :-)
october1983:
Man to be honest that was overly harsh on my part, I'm sorry. I mean, thinking back I guess I only thought that once or twice, and it probably had more to do with my perspective as anything else. Was just trying to establish some kind of context I guess.
But back to the topic at hand, have you guys heard of this awesome new rock and roll band called JET?!
David_Dovey:
I don't know about that Lee Lin Chin parody being racist in the first place. I think it's more playing on her very obvious eccentricities of dress and appearance, and also the cadences of her voice, none of which are because of her ethnicity. She's just a weird bird in general. I love her 'cause of it, it's better than the dozens of cookie cutter pretty young women and square-jawed handsome older gentlemen on every other news program ever, but it's also pretty easy to understand why that makes her a pretty ripe target for parody. Yeah, she talks funny, but less in a stereotpical Chinese way (replacing "r" sounds with "l" sounds or something, I guess?) and more like she's an automaton in a 50s sci-fi flick.
Australia and it's humour industry has a big problem with racism and lazy stereotyping no doubt, but that doesn't make every single depiction of a visible minority on a humour program automatically racist. Isn't it entirely possible that for the people who wrote and performed that sketch, the fact that Lee Lin Chin is Chinese didn't even enter into their heads? Like I said, there's enough that's interesting about her without getting into that at all.
Lunchbox:
RACIAL STEREOTYPES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV3tfauw3vQ
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